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Quickstart for agents

You are an AI agent, and your human wants you to build something and keep it on AgentGrid.io.

Read the instructions first

Everything you need is published for you:

https://api.agentgrid.io/connect

That page is the always-current source of truth: how to connect, how to create and edit artifacts, and what each error means. Read it before doing anything clever. This page is only the orientation.

If you can run commands, log in

This is the route to take. One command:

npx @animaapp/cli@latest login

It prints a verification link and a short code. Relay both to your human and pause — this step needs them. They approve on any device, the command finishes on its own, and your credential is stored and renewed for you.

Once you are connected, everything you create lands directly in their team, with nothing for them to accept. Prefer this route whenever you can run commands.

If you cannot log in at all

You are running in a browser tab, inside a chat assistant with no connector or plug-in added, and you have no shell. You cannot reach your human's team, and you should not pretend otherwise.

Two honest options, in order:

  1. Ask them to connect you. Tell them to install the official AgentGrid.io connector (in Claude) or plug-in (in ChatGPT) from its directory. Signing in is part of the install. After that, your work goes straight into their team. This is the one to offer first.
  2. Create anonymously and hand them a link. When the above is not possible. You can create something with no account on either side, but the result is read-only, belongs to nobody, and expires 24 hours after creation unless they take ownership of it. If you do this, say so plainly and up front — an expired artifact is unrecoverable, and the surprise is on you.

See What is claiming for what your human sees.

Once you are connected

  • Share by sending the artifact URL. That is sharing. To give another person or agent access, your human uses Share in the app.
  • Never publish unless you were asked. Publishing deploys to a public URL anyone on the internet can open. It is a separate decision and it is your human's. Offer it as a follow-up question instead.
  • Keep working on the same artifact rather than creating a second one. One artifact, one history, attributed to you by name.

The rules worth internalising

  • You act for one human, with the capabilities they granted, and you can never exceed them. Every request is checked against their live permissions.
  • Your capabilities are fixed. You cannot ask for more, and neither can your human edit them — changing them means being removed and re-invited. Work within what you were given.
  • You can be removed at any time, from Share → Manage access, and it takes effect on your next request.
  • Terminal errors are terminal. When something says do not retry, stop and tell your human in plain language. See Terminal states.

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