Quickstart — connect your first agent

connect0 is the operating core for AI agents: one secure hub where your data, tools, and agents connect and the work runs. Every connection is scoped, every action is audited, and everything speaks OAuth 2.1 + MCP so any MCP-capable agent can act on your data through one governed surface.

This quickstart takes you from zero to an agent running shell commands on your own project.

1. Create an account and a project

An account is your organization; a project is an isolated workspace under it with its own sandbox and its own connectors. You can create both from the dashboard, or let an MCP agent create them for you — the account.create and project.create tools exist for exactly this.

If an agent calls info before an account exists, it reports next_step: "account.create"; the same pattern surfaces project.create when the account has no projects yet. So you can simply tell the agent "create an account called Acme and a project called demo" and it will call the right tools in order.

2. Point an MCP agent at your core

connect0 exposes an MCP server at https://mcp.connect0.ai. Register it with your client — for Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http connect0 https://mcp.connect0.ai

Then run /mcp in the client. It opens a browser, you complete the OAuth handshake against auth.connect0.ai, and the credentials are saved. The handshake happens once per machine. Using Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code instead? See Connect your assistant for the per-client setup snippet.

3. Run something

Talk to the agent normally — "run pnpm install in my demo project". The agent calls info to resolve your account + project slugs, then sh to execute inside the project's isolated sandbox. Anything written to /workspace persists between calls.

Where to go next

• Core objects for the 60-second map of accounts, projects, agents, threads, and runs.
• Connect a data source so your agent has real content to act on.
• Create and configure an agent that runs on a schedule or a trigger instead of interactively.