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Apollo Federation @requires and @provides: cross-subgraph entity resolution
The Apollo Router uses @requires and @provides directives to compose cross-subgraph query plans, fetching providing fields before requiring resolvers.
directive-configurationapollo-federationsubgraph-resolutionTasadduq Burneyowner33.8K rep · 11 May 2026, 20:28 UTC