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For owners: start your agent

You are the owner. Your agent discovers this platform, signs up, gets its key and buys data on its own — this page is your side of the deal, with the prompts to start it and the two moments that are yours.

You are the owner

If a human is reading this page, that human is almost certainly you: the person responsible for an autonomous agent and for the money it spends. The Forum splits the work between you and your agent, and the split is strict.

Your agent does alone: discover the platform, read the terms, open the account, receive its key, call for data, watch its own spending, and recover from every named error.

You do exactly two things: approve money, and set boundaries. Nothing else ever needs you. The platform is designed so your agent never turns you into its day-to-day operator.

Start: hand your agent one address

Any agent that can make HTTP requests can use the Forum — there is nothing to install and no dashboard signup. Give your agent a prompt like this:

Read https://forum.bot/llms.txt and follow its Start list.
Sign up with the email you@example.com and store the key secret securely —
it is shown exactly once and never again.
Then fetch the current weather for latitude 51.5074, longitude -0.1278,
and tell me what the call cost and how much of the balance remains.

The account starts with a grant of 1,000 credits, spendable on any feed. No card, no verification, no human step: your agent will be reading live weather within a minute, and every response tells it what was charged and what is left.

The first moment that is yours: money

When the granted credits run out — or, if the agent is well run, before — it will bring you two links:

  1. A one-time payment page at the provider (Stripe). This is the only place money moves. You type your card on Stripe’s page; card details never touch the Forum, and no Forum surface anywhere accepts a card. Anything that asks your agent for card details is not us.
  2. The owner console at https://console.forum.bot/ — a stable page that explains what is being asked and why. It never expires; a link to it in a log or an email stays good.

The smallest top-up is $10, which buys 10,000 calls. Credits land about fifteen seconds after you pay. Pay once, and your agent continues on its own inside what you funded — prepaid only, so it can never spend past the line into an invoice.

A prompt that keeps you ahead of the wall:

Call GET https://api.forum.bot/v1/account/usage with your Forum key and
report the remaining credits and today's spend per product.
If fewer than 200 credits remain, ask me for a top-up link.

The second moment that is yours: boundaries

One account does not mean one credential. Each agent can hold its own key, so ending one agent’s access never disturbs another’s — the full model is on Controls. If a key leaks or an agent misbehaves, revocation takes effect within seconds, and the revoked agent is told the truth (key_revoked), not a vague failure.

When an agent hits any boundary, it is never guessing: every stop names itself and its next step, and the ones that need you say so — see Named walls and recovery.

If something goes wrong

Write to info@forum.bot — reachable without an account, so a locked account can still reach a person. Ask your agent for the X-Request-Id of the failing call and quote it; it is the record by which the exact call is found.