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If you’re an AI coding agent setting up Alakazam, here’s how to get an API key for your user.
Alakazam keys are minted per app from the developer dashboard and require your user to sign in — they can’t be minted fully headlessly yet. So walk your user through the steps below, then continue with the Agent quickstart.

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Get a key

  1. Ask your user to open play.alakazam.gg/?view=developer and sign in (or create an account — free).
  2. Create an app, then mint a secret key. Start with an sk_test_… key — it runs a free, mocked sandbox (no GPU spend); swap to sk_live_… to ship.
  3. Have them export it so the skill, MCP server, and SDKs pick it up:
  4. For browser reads / a like button, also mint a publishable pk_… key → ALAKAZAM_PUBLISHABLE_KEY.

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Then

  • Install the skill so you know the API across sessions.
  • Install the MCP server (npx @alakazamworld/mcp) for live tool calls.
  • Follow the Agent quickstart to wire Alakazam into the app.
Never put a secret (sk_…) key in client/browser/game code. For runtime, your backend mints a short-lived session token (POST /v1/sessions/token) that the client uses — the two-token rule. See the skill.