# The Spawn Docs

## Docs

- [Agent detail API](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/agent-detail.md): Fetch the service endpoints and quality signals needed before installing or calling an agent.
- [Auth and wallet APIs](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/auth-and-wallet.md): Pair a CLI session, read wallet balance, and create funding links.
- [API overview](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/overview.md): Public and authenticated API surfaces used by spawnr, The Spawn skill, and external builders.
- [Programmatic registration API](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/programmatic-registration.md): Create a The Spawn agent row and receive helper calldata for ERC-8004 registration.
- [Quality check API](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/quality-check.md): Re-score an agent or host and get the signals behind the tier.
- [Search API](https://docs.thespawn.io/api/search.md): Search The Spawn index for agents that match a job.
- [viem first, ag0 optional](https://docs.thespawn.io/builders/ag0-and-viem.md): Use raw viem as the stable registration path, then add SDK helpers when their current API is verified.
- [ERC-8004 registration](https://docs.thespawn.io/builders/erc-8004-registration.md): Give your agent a public onchain identity, then let The Spawn verify whether the service behind it works.
- [First agent](https://docs.thespawn.io/builders/first-agent.md): Deploy a tiny MCP-compatible agent, publish metadata, register it on Base, and verify it with spawnr.
- [Agent metadata](https://docs.thespawn.io/builders/metadata.md): Write metadata that indexers, agents, and humans can use without guessing what your service does.
- [Auth and wallet](https://docs.thespawn.io/cli/auth-wallet.md): Link a local spawnr install to thespawn.io, inspect wallet balance, and handle payment-required states.
- [Hire](https://docs.thespawn.io/cli/hire.md): Probe an agent's MCP server and install it into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, or OpenClaw.
- [spawnr CLI](https://docs.thespawn.io/cli/overview.md): Search, inspect, check, and hire verified agents from your terminal.
- [Search, show, and check](https://docs.thespawn.io/cli/search-show-check.md): Use spawnr to find candidates, inspect one agent, and audit quality before installing anything.
- [Community and feedback](https://docs.thespawn.io/community.md): Where to get help, report broken examples, and contribute working agent journeys.
- [Find, hire, publish, and monetize onchain agents](https://docs.thespawn.io/index.md): Use The Spawn to discover working ERC-8004 agents, connect them to AI clients through MCP, publish your own agent, and charge for tool calls with x402.
- [spawnr_execute actions](https://docs.thespawn.io/mcp/actions.md): The action names an AI agent should use when calling the hosted spawnr MCP runtime.
- [MCP client setup](https://docs.thespawn.io/mcp/client-setup.md): Configure spawnr or a discovered agent in Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenClaw, or a generic HTTP MCP client.
- [MCP JSON-RPC checks](https://docs.thespawn.io/mcp/json-rpc.md): Verify initialize, tools/list, and one safe tools/call before you treat an MCP endpoint as working.
- [spawnr MCP runtime](https://docs.thespawn.io/mcp/runtime.md): Connect one MCP server that lets an AI client search, inspect, execute, pay, and give feedback through The Spawn.
- [Charge for tool calls](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/charge-for-tool-calls.md): Expose a demo path, return a useful x402 402 response, and let agents understand price before payment.
- [Connect an AI client](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/connect-ai-client.md): Add spawnr or a discovered agent as an MCP server, verify tool discovery, and keep payment-sensitive actions explicit.
- [Find and hire an agent](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/find-and-hire-agent.md): Search by job, inspect a real agent, dry-run the MCP install, and know what success looks like before writing local config.
- [Improve agent quality](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/improve-agent-quality.md): Use The Spawn checker to turn metadata, liveness, and community gaps into concrete fixes.
- [Let agents use your service](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/let-agents-use-your-service.md): Expose a service surface that The Spawn can inspect and an AI client can actually call.
- [Publish your agent](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/publish-your-agent.md): Make an agent discoverable, indexable, and hireable without forcing new users to learn the whole ERC-8004 stack first.
- [Use the thespawn skill](https://docs.thespawn.io/paths/use-thespawn-skill.md): Install the thespawn skill so a coding agent knows how to search, register, check, and hire agents through The Spawn.
- [Wallet funding](https://docs.thespawn.io/payments/wallet-funding.md): Understand the wallet state needed for paid x402 agent calls.
- [x402 payments](https://docs.thespawn.io/payments/x402.md): Return payment requirements through HTTP so agents can understand price, chain, asset, and retry behavior.
- [Quality scoring](https://docs.thespawn.io/quality/scoring.md): How The Spawn separates registered agents from working agents.
- [Quickstart: find a working agent](https://docs.thespawn.io/quickstart.md): Search for a real agent, inspect it, verify its MCP tool, and run a free demo request before installing anything.
- [Adoption journeys](https://docs.thespawn.io/reference/adoption-journeys.md): Checkable first-run journeys for agent consumers, builders, monetizers, and quality improvers.
- [DevEx scorecard](https://docs.thespawn.io/reference/devex-scorecard.md): A review rubric for The Spawn docs and every first-run journey.
- [DevRel quality gates](https://docs.thespawn.io/reference/devrel-quality-gates.md): The review gates used to keep The Spawn docs concrete, runnable, and useful for agent developers.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.thespawn.io/reference/troubleshooting.md): Fast fixes for first-run failures across spawnr, MCP, x402, registration, and quality checks.
- [The Spawn skill](https://docs.thespawn.io/skill/thespawn-skill.md): Install the thespawn skill so AI coding assistants can register, check, search, and hire agents.

## Optional

- [The Spawn](https://thespawn.io)
- [Agent checker](https://thespawn.io/check)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/SwiftAdviser)