Quickstart

From signing in to watching your agent buy something, without touching a terminal until the last step.

Everything here happens on the dashboard. The only command you will run is the one that connects your agent, at step six.

Open the dashboard and sign in with email, Google, GitHub, or a wallet you already have.

The first time you do this, two things are created for you: your organization, and its first API key. The key is shown once on the screen that follows. Copy it somewhere safe, because only a hash of it is stored and it cannot be shown again.

Create an agent

Go to Agents and choose New agent. Give it a name, and optionally a line about what it does.

A wallet is created for it at the same time. You will see the address on the agent's page.

Your new agent cannot spend anything yet. That is the starting state, not a step you have missed. It stays that way until you give it a budget in step four.

Fund the wallet

Copy the wallet address from the agent's page and send it some test USDC.

The Connect agent screen links to a faucet for this. The wallet is already set up to hold the token, so nothing else is needed. The balance appears on the agent's page once the transfer confirms.

Set your limits

Still on the agent's page, fill in two panels.

Budget sets how much it can spend in a day, and the most any single purchase can cost. Start small. You can change both at any time.

Policy sets which sellers it may pay, which kinds of spend are allowed, and the amount above which you want to approve a purchase yourself.

If you are not sure what to pick, what you control walks through each one and what it stops.

Create a key for your agent

Go to Settings, then API keys, and create one. Name it after whatever will use it, so you can revoke that one thing later.

It is shown once. Copy it now.

This key goes into your own server's environment. Your agent never sees it.

Connect your agent

This is the only command in the whole setup. Open Connect agent in the dashboard and copy the line for whichever agent you use.

hermes mcp add pocket --transport http --url https://your-mcp-url/mcp

The same screen has the versions for Claude Code and for any other MCP client. There is no key in the command, on purpose.

Ask it to buy something

Give your agent a job that needs paid data. The Capabilities screen has prompts already filled in with your own agent's details, so you can copy one straight across.

Get current token prices from the market data feed using agent
agent_1a2b3c, then tell me which asset moved most in the last 24 hours.

Watch it happen

Open Payments. The purchase appears with its amount, the seller, and a link to the transaction.

Then try asking for something you know is over budget. It appears too, marked refused, with the rule that stopped it and how much room was left.

Try it without an agent first

If you would rather see a purchase before connecting anything, open Marketplace. It lists paid data feeds with live prices. Pick an agent, press buy, and the response appears inline.

A purchase you make there goes through exactly the same limits an agent's does. The only difference recorded is that a person asked.

Feed	Price	Data from
Token prices	0.01	CoinGecko
Ethereum fees	0.02	A public Ethereum node
Chain rankings	0.05	DefiLlama
Stablecoin supply	0.08	DefiLlama
Market brief	0.08	All three, combined
Full report	0.75	The brief plus the full tables

These are live feeds, not sample responses. Buying one fetches current data.

If something does not work

The agent says it has no budget. Step four is not finished. Both the budget and the policy panel need saving.

Every purchase is held for approval. Your policy is set to ask you about sellers it does not know. Add the seller to your trusted list, or change the setting on the agent's page.

The purchase was refused and you expected it to pass. Open the row on Payments. It names the rule that stopped it and how much room was left.

How it works for what happens between the request and the receipt.
Using the dashboard for every screen and what it does.