From zero to your first signed, anchored receipt.

This page takes you from signup to a verified Decision Receipt in about five minutes. You'll issue one receipt with curl, look it up in the dashboard, and verify it publicly at /r.

1. Create your account

Sign up at agentcert.net/signup using Microsoft, Google, or email. After signing in you'll land on /welcome where a personal API key is generated and shown once. Copy it now — we never display it again.

Your account is provisioned with 30 free Decision Credits — enough for ten certified receipts (3 credits each). After that, you fund credits with CERT. See CERT & credits.

2. Set your API key as an env var

export AGENT_CERT_API_KEY="ak_live_..."

The base URL for the API is your Agent Cert backend (visible in your account settings or as NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE when running locally). All examples below use $AGENT_CERT_API_KEY as the bearer.

3. Issue your first receipt

A Decision Receipt is the output of a single AI agent action. You submit the execution metadata (what the agent was asked, what it did, which tools it called) and Agent Cert evaluates, signs, and anchors it.

curl -X POST https://YOUR-BACKEND/v1/receipts \
  -H "X-API-Key: $AGENT_CERT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "agent_id": "agent_invoice_001",
    "platform": "bedrock",
    "user_intent": "Approve invoice if under $5,000 and vendor is approved.",
    "agent_output": "Invoice approved.",
    "tools_used": ["invoice_lookup", "vendor_lookup"],
    "retrieval_summary": "Invoice $4,200; vendor on approved list.",
    "policy_rules": [
      "Invoice approval must be below $5,000.",
      "Vendor must be approved."
    ]
  }'

The response is your Decision Receipt:

{
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_01HXTRUST...",
  "trust_score": 91,
  "risk_level": "low",
  "policy_compliant": true,
  "prompt_injection_detected": false,
  "evaluator_model": "qwen-32b-instruct",
  "signature": "ed25519:...",
  "execution_hash": "sha256:...",
  "evaluation_hash": "sha256:...",
  "anchor_status": "pending",
  "verify_url": "https://agentcert.net/r/?id=rcpt_01HXTRUST...",
  "credits_remaining": 27
}

4. View it in the dashboard

Visit /receipts in your account. You'll see the new receipt with its trust score, risk level, and anchor status. Anchoring to Solana typically completes within a few seconds on devnet.

5. Verify it publicly

Send the verify URL to anyone — no account needed:

https://agentcert.net/r/?id=rcpt_01HXTRUST...

Or paste the receipt ID at /r. The page recomputes the hashes, checks the Ed25519 signature, reads the on-chain Solana memo, and reports one of three results: fully verified, mismatched, or anchoring-in-progress.

Next steps

• Define a policy so future receipts from your agent are evaluated against your own rules — not just the ones you pass per-call.
• Connect via MCP if your agent supports the Model Context Protocol (Copilot Studio, Claude Desktop, etc.) — no manual API calls needed.
• Browse integrations for platform-specific walkthroughs.
• Full REST API reference with every endpoint, parameter, and response code.