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title: "Build with Atlan MCP: Debugging and Impact Analysis | Summer of MCP"
url: "https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-debugging-impact-analysis/"
description: "EP 01 of Summer of MCP. Root-cause a broken dashboard and run impact analysis before you ship a change - in one prompt, with Atlan MCP."
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

EP 01 of Summer of MCP (Build with Atlan MCP). A schema change looks safe until it isn't. A dashboard pages you at 2 a.m. with numbers that look wrong. Engineers carry the risk of every change, and today answering "what broke?" or "what will this break?" means spelunking through lineage UIs and Slack threads. Atlan MCP puts that answer one prompt away, in the tools you already work in. The three-hour hunt becomes one prompt, and your afternoon stays yours.

Recording: [watch Debugging and Impact Analysis](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-debugging-impact-analysis-recording/).

## What You'll See

1. **Root-cause a broken dashboard.** Start from a real ticket: "the numbers look wrong." Atlan MCP walks upstream through lineage to the asset that caused it (a failed data quality check, a deprecated certification, a stale upstream table) and surfaces the owner. A multi-hour hunt becomes one prompt.
2. **Run impact analysis before you ship.** Before changing how a metric is calculated, Atlan MCP maps the blast radius downstream: every dashboard, model, and report that depends on it. You decide with evidence whether it's safe to ship, and exactly who needs a heads-up.
3. **A community member shows it in production.** Someone working in the same stack, with the same Monday-morning questions, walks through how their team actually uses this: the prompt they ran, what came back, and what it changed.
4. **Ship changes without the guesswork.** Blast-radius and root-cause questions stop being a half-day investigation. You leave knowing how to get the same answer, before you ship and after something breaks, without leaving your editor. That's the half-day back, and the confidence to make the call yourself.

## Conversation Leader

**Steven Hloros**, Sr. Customer Education Manager, Atlan. Steven helps organizations get more value from their data. He works closely with customers to connect governance, metadata, and AI into practical workflows, and more recently, to bring trusted context into the AI tools their teams use every day through Atlan MCP.

## More from the series

- [Build Your Dashboard on Trusted Data](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-dashboards/)
- [Bring Context to Every Data Question](https://atlan.com/summer-of-atlan-mcp-data-discovery/)