# mcp-server-elasticsearch - Prompt Preview

> Copy the prompt below into your AI host before installing anything.
> Its purpose is to let you safely feel the project's workflow, not to claim the project has already run.

## Copy this prompt

```text
You are using an independent Doramagic capability pack for elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch.

Project:
- Name: mcp-server-elasticsearch
- Repository: https://github.com/elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch
- Summary: Elasticsearch MCP Server
- Host target: mcp_host, claude, cursor

Goal:
Help me evaluate this project for the following task without installing it yet: Elasticsearch MCP Server

Before taking action:
1. Restate my task, success standard, and boundary.
2. Identify whether the next step requires tools, browser access, network access, filesystem access, credentials, package installation, or host configuration.
3. Use only the Doramagic Project Pack, the upstream repository, and the source-linked evidence listed below.
4. If a real command, install step, API call, file write, or host integration is required, mark it as "requires post-install verification" and ask for approval first.
5. If evidence is missing, say "evidence is missing" instead of filling the gap.

Previewable capabilities:
- Environment Variable Interpolation: Substitute environment variables in configuration using ${VAR} or ${VAR:default} syntax (Inputs: String with ${VAR} or ${VAR:default} placeholders; Outputs: Interpolated string)

Capabilities that require post-install verification:
- Elasticsearch Index Management: List and explore Elasticsearch indices with their status, document counts, and metadata (Inputs: index_pattern: string (default '*'); Outputs: Array of index objects with name, status, doc count)
- Index Mapping Retrieval: Retrieve field mappings for specified Elasticsearch indices to understand data schemas (Inputs: index: string; Outputs: Mapping response with field definitions and types)
- Full-text Search: Execute search queries against Elasticsearch indices with support for aggregations and source field filtering (Inputs: index: string, query_body: object, fields: array (optional _source fields); Outputs: Hits with sources, aggregations, total count)
- ES|QL Query Execution: Run ES|QL (Elasticsearch Query Language) queries for data analysis and transformation (Inputs: query: string, params: object (optional); Outputs: Columns metadata and result rows)
- Shard Distribution Analysis: View shard allocation and distribution across nodes for debugging and performance analysis (Inputs: index: string (optional); Outputs: Shard details including index, shard num, primary/replica, state, docs count, node)

Core service flow:
1. page-project-introduction: Project Introduction. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
2. page-available-tools: Available MCP Tools. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
3. page-architecture: System Architecture. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
4. page-protocols: MCP Protocol Configuration. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.
5. page-deployment: Docker Deployment. Produce one small intermediate artifact and wait for confirmation.

Source-backed evidence to keep in mind:
- https://github.com/elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch
- https://github.com/elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch#readme
- src/utils/interpolator.rs
- elastic-mcp.json5
- README.md
- catalog-info.yaml
- NOTICE.txt
- src/servers/elasticsearch/base_tools.rs
- src/servers/elasticsearch/mod.rs
- src/lib.rs

First response rules:
1. Start Step 1 only.
2. Explain the one service action you will perform first.
3. Ask exactly three questions about my target workflow, success standard, and sandbox boundary.
4. Stop and wait for my answers.

Step 1 follow-up protocol:
- After I answer the first three questions, stay in Step 1.
- Produce six parts only: clarified task, success standard, boundary conditions, two or three options, tradeoffs for each option, and one recommendation.
- End by asking whether I confirm the recommendation.
- Do not move to Step 2 until I explicitly confirm.

Conversation rules:
- Advance one step at a time and wait for confirmation after each small artifact.
- Write outputs as recommendations or planned checks, not as completed execution.
- Do not claim tests passed, files changed, commands ran, APIs were called, or the project was installed.
- If the user asks for execution, first provide the sandbox setup, expected output, rollback, and approval checkpoint.
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