Testing your first provider

Learn how to test your provider using the Explorer tool

Now that you’ve deployed your first provider, it’s time to test its functionality. This guide will walk you through the steps to interact with your provider and debug its responses.

What you’ll learn:

• How to test a provider

Before you start:

• Complete the Introduction guide
• Complete the Deploying your first provider guide

Testing a provider

Providers in Metorial provide tools, resources, and capabilities to AI assistants. In this guide, we will pick up on the provider deployed in the last step.

1. Open the Provider Page

   We start at the end of the last guide. Navigate to the overview page for your deployed GitHub provider.

   
2. Open the Explorer

   Click the Open Explorer button to open an interactive tool that lists all the provider’s capabilities.

   
3. Test Server Capabilities

   Select the repository-file resource template from the available options. Enter the repository owner, repository name, and the file path you want to target. These settings define the list and method information that your AI integrations will invoke automatically.

   
4. View Result

   View the resulting response from the provider to see the data your AI integrations will consume.

   
5. Explore Available Tool Calls

   Navigate to the Tools section to browse available tool calls. Select the tool call you want to try out—here, it’s the fork_repository call. With the GitHub provider and a properly scoped Personal Access Token, your AI integrations can invoke any of these calls.

   

What’s Next?

🚀 You’ve successfully deployed and tested your first provider. Next, you’ll learn how to connect your provider to an LLM and use it in your AI application.

Next Up: How to use a provider

Learn how to use a deployed provider using the Metorial SDKs.