# Quickstart: agents

RouterGrowth is built to be called by agents. The integration is one file: [`SKILL.md`](/SKILL.md) teaches an agent the CLI, the HTTP interface, the spending rules (inspect before run, cap with `max_cost`, ask before batches over about $1) and free strategy playbooks it can run today.

## One-line install

Tell your agent:

```text
Set up https://www.routergrowth.com/SKILL.md
```

The skill contains its own install instructions, so the agent persists it in the right place for its harness:

| Platform | Where the skill lives |
| --- | --- |
| Claude Code | `~/.claude/skills/routergrowth/SKILL.md` (all projects) or `.claude/skills/routergrowth/SKILL.md` |
| Codex | one pointer line in `AGENTS.md` (or `~/.codex/AGENTS.md`) |
| Cursor | `.cursor/rules/routergrowth.mdc` |
| Gemini CLI | one pointer line in `GEMINI.md` |
| Cline | one pointer line in `.clinerules` |
| GitHub Copilot | one pointer line in `.github/copilot-instructions.md` |
| OpenClaw | `~/.openclaw/skills/routergrowth/SKILL.md` |
| Hermes | `skills/routergrowth/SKILL.md` in the workspace |
| Anything else | wherever persistent instructions live, or a one-line pointer to the SKILL.md URL |

Then give the agent a key: mint one on the [dashboard](/dashboard) under API keys, and the agent stores it with `routergrowth keys add -k <key> -l main` (or uses it as the Bearer token over HTTP). Never commit the key.

## Docs your agent can read

Every page of this documentation has a markdown twin at the same URL plus `.md` (this page: [`/docs/quickstart-agents.md`](/docs/quickstart-agents.md)), and [`/docs/llms.txt`](/docs/llms.txt) indexes them all. The site-wide index at [`/llms.txt`](/llms.txt) covers the catalog, providers and pricing.

So an agent needs no scraping and no browser: fetch `llms.txt`, follow the markdown, call the API.

## MCP

Prefer native tools over a skill file? [Connect the MCP server](/docs/quickstart-mcp) at `https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp`: discover, inspect, run, runs and balance as MCP tools, authenticated with the same key.

## Spending rules the skill enforces

- Always `inspect` and show the user the price before a billable `run`.
- Respect `routing.max_cost` on every call.
- Stop and ask when a batch would exceed about $1.
- Never present sandbox mock data as real data.

## Next

- [Quickstart: CLI](/docs/quickstart-cli): the commands the agent will run.
- [API overview](/docs/api/overview): the HTTP surface behind them.