Quickstart

This guide walks you through the minimal steps to see LightNow in action:

1. Create a user account
2. Explore the public MCP registry
3. Upgrade to Standard (optional)
4. Publish your first MCP server
5. Create an organization tenant (optional)

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1. Sign up and log in

1. Open https://www.lightnow.ai.
2. Click Login.
3. Choose one of the available identity providers (Apple, GitHub, Google).
4. After successful login you have a LightNow user account.

At this stage you can:

• browse public MCP servers,
• mark servers as favorites,
• and, after subscription, use the Standard plan for yourself.

For multi-user scenarios in your company you will typically also create an organization tenant (see step 5).

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2. Browse MCP servers

Navigate to Servers in the main navigation.

On this page you can:

• search by server name, description and RDNS identifier,
• sort by Trusted, Newest, Trending,
• filter by Category, Transport, Status, and other properties.

Each server card shows:

• server name and short description,
• trust score (0–100) with color-coded level,
• transport information (for example stdio, streamable-http),
• badges such as “Trusted by LightNow” (for evaluated servers).

Click a server card to open the detail page. There you see:

• full description and metadata,
• a circular trust indicator with score and level,
• breakdown by trust layers (identity, ownership, security, reputation),
• capabilities (tools, resources, prompts) once the capability scan has run.

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3. (Optional) Upgrade to Standard

If you want to manage private MCP servers or see more details, you can upgrade your user account to Standard.

1. Go to the Pricing page in the main navigation.
2. In the Standard column, click Upgrade to Standard.
3. LightNow will redirect you to Stripe Checkout.
4. Complete the payment flow.
5. After returning to LightNow, your current plan will be updated to standard.

Standard is ideal for:

• individual professionals,
• small teams who do not need a full tenant workspace yet.

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4. Publish your first MCP server

Once you have at least a Standard plan (user) or an Enterprise tenant:

1. Prepare your MCP server according to the MCP Generic Registry spec.
2. Ensure you have a valid server manifest based on
   server.schema.json.
3. In the LightNow UI, use the Publish flow:
   • Choose a reverse-DNS server name (for example com.acme.mcp.myserver),
   • Upload or paste your MCP server manifest,
   • Confirm and publish the version.

The Registry-API will:

• validate the manifest against the schema,
• store the server and version metadata,
• emit capability scan requested events (if configured).

Once the capability scan has completed, the server will show:

• detected tools, resources and prompts,
• updated trust score based on scan and ownership signals.

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5. Create an organization tenant

For organization-wide usage you typically create a tenant:

1. Open your Profile page.
2. Scroll to the Organizations section.
3. Click Create organization and follow the wizard:
   • Enter organization name (e.g. Acme Inc.),
   • Choose a subdomain (e.g. acme → acme.lightnow.ai),
   • Confirm the settings.

After provisioning, you can:

• switch between user context and tenant context in the UI,
• access tenant-specific pages (for example tenant dashboard, settings),
• configure SSO and branding for the tenant.

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What’s next?

• Learn how users and tenants fit together.
• Understand plans & billing.
• Dive deeper into trust scores and ownership & verification.