Let your agent onboard itself

From one prompt, the agent installs the AnyAPI skills, mints its own free trial key, and makes its first call. You create no account and hand over no credentials. When the trial budget runs out, one human approval keeps it going.

This page is for an autonomous agent that calls AnyAPI at runtime. If a coding agent is integrating AnyAPI into an app you’ll ship, create a dashboard key on your funded account and see Agent skills. Trial keys have a small budget and expire in 7 days, so they do not belong in shipped code.

The one thing you do

Prompt your agent:

You have access to AnyAPI, a pay-per-call marketplace for scraping and data APIs.
Read https://getanyapi.com/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md, onboard yourself, and make one
real API call. Report what you did.

To have the agent spend from your funded account instead, hand it an API key and skip the trial.

What the agent does on its own

Installs the CLI (if it has a shell)

An agent with a shell runs one command that installs the skills, mints the trial key, and writes local credentials:

npx -y anyapi-cli@latest init

anyapi init also offers MCP registration and saves the key to ~/.anyapi/config.json. After init, the agent calls the anyapi binary directly.

Mints its own free trial key

Without a shell (a hosted chat or no-code runtime), the agent posts to the public signup endpoint:

curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "label": "my-agent" }'

The body is optional; label tags the key. The response returns the key once, plus the upgrade details:

{
  "secret": "aa_live_…",
  "keyId": "42",
  "capUsd": 0.05,
  "expiresAt": "2026-07-17T00:00:00Z",
  "clientId": "…",
  "upgrade": {
    "authorizationServer": "https://api.getanyapi.com",
    "scope": "run balance:read"
  },
  "notice": "This is a free AnyAPI trial key: about $0.05 of requests, it self-expires in 7 days, and no account was created. When it runs out, your human can connect a wallet to keep it going."
}

The agent stores secret as ANYAPI_API_KEY and relays notice to you verbatim.

Starts working immediately

The agent lists APIs, reads schemas, checks its USD balance, and runs calls over MCP, the CLI, or REST.

What it costs you to start

Nothing. A trial key carries about $0.05 of requests (capUsd), creates no account, and self-expires in 7 days if never upgraded.

When the trial budget is spent, calls return HTTP 402 with error code trial_cap_reached and an upgrade object in the body. Approve continued spend below.

Upgrade past the trial

Continuing takes one human approval through OAuth 2.1. You approve a spend limit, and the agent keeps working on the same session without a new key. Approve from your personal account. A trial can’t be continued on a Team.

With the CLI (recommended)
Raw REST or MCP (no shell)
Dashboard key (secondary)

The agent runs:

anyapi connect

This requires anyapi-cli >= 0.3.0. It starts an OAuth flow with a localhost callback and prints one consent URL for the human. At getanyapi.com/dashboard/authorize they sign in or sign up, see a receipt of what the agent did on the trial, set a spend limit, and approve. The agent then holds an OAuth access token.

The 402 trial_cap_reached body carries the upgrade coordinates (authorizationServer and scope). The agent relays the link so you can approve continued spend at getanyapi.com/dashboard/authorize.

Create a non-expiring key at getanyapi.com/dashboard/keys and give it to the agent as ANYAPI_API_KEY. New accounts start with about 100 free requests. Use this path on a CLI too old for anyapi connect.

Connect the MCP server for live tools, or use the CLI to keep tool schemas out of the agent’s context window.

Getting Started

API Reference

Let your agent onboard itself

The one thing you do

What the agent does on its own

What it costs you to start

Upgrade past the trial

​The one thing you do

​What the agent does on its own

​What it costs you to start

​Upgrade past the trial

The one thing you do

What the agent does on its own

What it costs you to start

Upgrade past the trial