chainbase-labs/Agentkey

AgentKey – One‑click internet access for your AI agents

What it is – AgentKey is a small “master key” service that plugs into a wide range of LLM‑based agents (Claude, Gemini, Cursor, DeepSeek Harness, etc.) and gives them live access to the open web, social platforms, on‑chain data, finance, e‑commerce and more. Instead of hunting down dozens of API keys, you install a single skill and a tiny client; the service routes the request to the appropriate provider and returns clean, summarized results.

How it works

1. Installer – A one‑line curl … | bash (or PowerShell) script detects every supported agent on the machine (40+ are listed in the Vercel‑Labs skills repo) and adds the agentkey skill to each.
2. MCP client – The installer also writes a Minimal Client‑Protocol (MCP) entry that points to https://api.agentkey.app/v1/mcp and stores a bearer token you obtain by logging in via a browser.
3. Agent side – When the agent receives a user query that needs external data, it calls three built‑in tools (find_tools, describe_tool, execute_tool). The MCP server resolves the request to the right data source (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube transcripts, blockchain explorers, stock quotes, etc.) and returns a concise, structured answer.
4. Updates & telemetry – The skill can auto‑update itself; the MCP server is always current. Only anonymous usage telemetry is sent (agent name, skill version, success/failure), never the content of queries.

Key capabilities (as of the README)

Category	Example data you can pull
Web search & scraping	Search engines, news, any public webpage, clean article extraction
Social & content	Public tweets, Instagram posts, Reddit threads, YouTube/Bilibili transcripts, TikTok/Douyin trends
On‑chain / crypto	Token prices, recent transactions, project metadata
Finance	Stock/FX quotes, technical indicators, earnings reports
E‑commerce	Product listings, prices, reviews, best‑sellers
Business intelligence	Company profiles, funding rounds, investor data
Planned	Maps & weather

Installation (quick start)

# macOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://agentkey.app/install.sh | bash
# Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://agentkey.app/install.ps1 | iex

The script opens a browser for you to log in, writes the skill into ~/.agents/skills/agentkey (or the equivalent per‑client folder), and registers the MCP token.

Typical workflow

User: “What has Elon Musk been tweeting about today?”
Agent → calls `find_tools` → discovers the Twitter fetch tool
Agent → calls `describe_tool` → learns required parameters
Agent → calls `execute_tool` → AgentKey contacts Twitter (via its own backend) and returns a short summary.

No API keys, no manual scraping code – the agent just asks AgentKey to do the heavy lifting.

Supported agents & how to target them

• Auto‑detected: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, DeepSeek Harness, etc.
• You can limit installation with installer flags (--only claude-code,cursor, --skip-mcp, --skip-skill).
• For agents not auto‑detected, you can manually paste a small JSON snippet into the agent’s config to point it at the MCP server.

Updating

• The MCP server is always live; the skill checks its own version on first run and can auto‑run npx skills update -g agentkey.
• For Claude Desktop (which cannot run inline Bash), a metadata tool (agentkey_skill_meta) informs the client of newer releases; a one‑time bootstrap script is provided for older installations.

Uninstall

# macOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://agentkey.app/uninstall.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://agentkey.app/uninstall.ps1 | iex

Or manually remove the skill with npx skills remove chainbase-labs/agentkey and delete the MCP entry from the client’s config file.

Pricing & telemetry

• Subscription‑based with a monthly credit allowance; overages are billed pay‑as‑you‑go.
• Telemetry is optional – create ~/.config/agentkey/telemetry-disabled to opt out.

Where to get help

• Web console: https://console.agentkey.app (manage subscription, view usage)
• Docs & FAQ are in the repo; slash commands inside the agent (/agentkey status, /agentkey setup) diagnose configuration problems.

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Bottom line – AgentKey is a real, installable service that abstracts away the myriad third‑party APIs an LLM‑agent would otherwise need. By installing a single skill and authenticating once, developers can give their agents reliable, up‑to‑date internet access across many domains without writing custom scrapers or managing dozens of API keys.