Unit 4: Embed Bowire

Time: ~45 minutes • Lessons: 3 • Modality: embedded coding

Mount Bowire inside your own ASP.NET host — the workbench, an MCP endpoint for agents, and a traffic interceptor, all sharing your process, DI container, auth and config. This unit is coding (C# in Program.cs); it never switches to the CLI or the UI mid-lesson — where the workbench UI is the payoff, it links to Unit 1.

Real, working reference: the harbor-demo/ hosts in Bowire.Samples already embed Bowire (AddBowire() / MapBowire() in each Program.cs) — read them as the "completed" example.

Lessons

Lesson	Topic	What You'll Learn
4.1	Embed the workbench	AddBowire() + MapBowire(), DI/auth/config inheritance, gating out of production
4.2	Embedded MCP adapter	AddBowireMcpAdapter() / MapBowireMcpAdapter() — one shared HTTP MCP endpoint
4.3	Interceptor middleware	UseBowireInterceptor() + BowireInterceptorOptions — capture host traffic

Why this unit

The CLI (Unit 3) treats Bowire as an external probe. Embedding flips it: the workbench becomes a regular endpoint of your host, seeing everything your DI container exposes — the right shape for internal-tools teams and for debugging your own service.

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