6 minTime to key
NoNo-human path
3Human gates
7/10Onboarding score
Card before first callEmail verificationPhone OTP
Fastest path to a key
- Email verificationSign up at platform.claude.com (email magic link or Google)
- Email verificationVerify email (magic link)
- Phone OTPPhone verification by SMS to claim the one-time $5 credit (optional per support article; VoIP numbers rejected)
- Card before first callAdd a card and buy prepaid credits (minimum $5), which the API needs to serve requests
- Settings > API keys > Create key (pick personal or service-account key, expiration, workspace)
- OR skip the key: `ant auth login` (browser OAuth, `--no-browser` for headless) and call the API with a workspace-scoped token
- Working API key
Biggest gap
Credits must be bought before the first call, and the Admin API deliberately can't mint usable keys.
Worth copying
A keyless CLI OAuth login (`ant auth login --no-browser`) that issues a workspace-scoped token, so an agent never handles a long-lived secret.
Sources (9) · checked 2026-10-11
- https://platform.claude.com/llms.txt
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/get-api-key.md
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/get-started.md
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/cli/quickstart.md
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/cli/authentication.md
- https://platform.claude.com/docs/mcp
- https://code.claude.com/docs/mcp
- https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8994925-how-do-i-claim-my-free-credits
- https://dev.classmethod.jp/en/articles/claude-console-buy-credit-create-api-key/
61Readiness score / 100
L3 Agent-operableBeats 82% of 1,846 companies
Access20/20
Context20/20
Interfaces8/32
Onboarding8/19
Trust5/9
llms.txt · docs
Biggest gains
- +12 Remote MCP server for the product. Host a remote MCP server (e.g. mcp.<domain>/mcp, Streamable HTTP) for your core actions.
- +8 Machine-readable API spec. Publish an OpenAPI spec at a stable URL like /openapi.json and link it from llms.txt.
- +6 Agents can self-register OAuth clients. Support dynamic client registration (RFC 7591) or client ID metadata documents so MCP clients connect in one click.
All 20 checks
- PASSAgents get the real page, not a bot wall10
- PASSrobots.txt lets user-triggered agents in6
- PASSContent is server-rendered4
- PASSllms.txt exists8
- PASSllms-full.txt exists3
- PASSDocs available as markdown6
- PASSSitemap2
- PASSStructured metadata1
- PASSPublic developer docs4
- FAILMachine-readable API spec8
- FAILRemote MCP server for the product12
- FAILDocs MCP or searchable docs4
- PASSSDKs and a CLI4
- FAILOAuth discovery metadata5
- FAILAgents can self-register OAuth clients6
- PASSSelf-serve API keys5
- PASSFree tier or test mode3
- FAILAgent manifests4
- PASSsecurity.txt2
- PASSPublic status page3
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