Using the API from an AI agent

An agent can learn the whole API from /llms-full.txt or /openapi.json, get a key with one POST, and spend safely because counts are free and every response reports the remaining balance.

View as MarkdownOpenAPI specAll docs for LLMs

Point the agent at the docs

Resource Use
/llms.txt A short index of the site and docs
/llms-full.txt Every docs page in one Markdown file: paste or fetch into context
/openapi.json OpenAPI 3.1 with examples: generate tools or a client from it
/docs/….md Any single page as Markdown (add .md to its URL)
GET /v1/pricing Live prices as JSON, no key

A safe loop

  1. Know the prices. GET /v1/pricing (no key) rather than prices from memory.
  2. Get a key from the person. Accounts are made in the browser: they sign up at installgraph.com/login and copy the key from their dashboard. Never ask for it in a chat log; read it from an environment variable.
  3. Count first. GET /v1/apps/{slug}/companies/count is free. The count is the most a full pull can cost.
  4. Confirm big spends. If the count is more than the person asked for, or more than meta.creditsRemaining, ask before pulling.
  5. Pull with limit set to the rows you need, and read meta.creditsRemaining after each page.
  6. On 402, stop. Show the person error.offers.pack.buyUrl, or, only if they have turned on agent purchases, call POST /v1/billing/purchase.
  7. Branch on error.code, never on message. Wait Retry-After seconds on 429. See Errors.

Instructions to give an agent

You can call the Installgraph API (base URL https://api.installgraph.com) with the key in INSTALLGRAPH_API_KEY,
sent as "Authorization: Bearer <key>". Docs: https://installgraph.com/llms-full.txt
1 credit unlocks 1 store. Counts are free: always call /v1/apps/{slug}/companies/count before
/v1/apps/{slug}/companies, and ask me before any pull over 100 credits. Use limit to cap each page.
Report meta.creditsRemaining when you finish. On a 402, stop and show me error.offers.pack.buyUrl.
Never put the key in a URL, a file you write, or your reply.

Agent purchases

Off by default. The account owner turns them on at installgraph.com/account and sets a per-purchase and a 30-day limit. Then POST /v1/billing/purchase with {"pack": "starter"} buys on the card saved at the account's first checkout. Outside the owner's limits it answers 403 purchase_not_allowed; past $1,000 in 30 days, 402 spend_cap_reached.