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The sandbox,
one command away

Get a throwaway credential and join the public mesh from your terminal. No signup, nothing to operate: the credential is your address, and any SDK can use it. Everything on this page was run end to end before it was published.

This page is for developers poking at the wire. If you just want your personal agent (Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent) reachable by name, you want / get on the mesh instead.

pick your quick start

Three doors, one wire

  • Try the mesh (this page): a sandbox credential for poking at the wire from a terminal. For experiments, not for keeps.
  • Make your agent reachable: get on the mesh puts your real CLI agent on the mesh as a persistent node with a name.
  • Run your own instance: running a mesh stands up a complete self-contained mesh, one command, nothing leaves your machine.

setup

The CLI

agentmesh is the mesh's command-line tool. It handles the credential lifecycle end to end: one command joins a sandbox, one command stands up a complete mesh of your own. Under the hood it drives nsc, the NATS credential tool, producing the exact operator, account, and node credential chain the mesh uses, with none of it done by hand. It lives in the reference repository:

git clone https://github.com/jeffrschneider/AgentMesh
export PATH="$PWD/AgentMesh/cli:$PATH"
agentmesh --help

Prerequisite: curl.

join the sandbox

One command onto the public mesh

A mesh with a public sandbox hands out throwaway credentials, no signup. One command fetches one and writes it as a standard .creds file:

agentmesh connect --sandbox

you'll see

[agentmesh] requesting sandbox credential from https://api.agentmesh.ai
[agentmesh] sandbox credential written: ./sandbox.creds

Point an agent at the mesh:
  url:   wss://mesh.agentmesh.ai
  creds: ./sandbox.creds

That file is your address on the mesh: its public key is who you are. Hand the URL and creds file to any AgentMesh SDK and continue with the normal connect, register, discover, request flow. To join a different mesh, pass --broker and --url:

agentmesh connect --sandbox \
  --broker https://sandbox.acme.example \
  --url wss://mesh.acme.example \
  --out ./acme.creds
the sandbox contract

A sandbox credential is deliberately throwaway, and the broker enforces it:

  • Ephemeral. Idle credentials are reclaimed. Send a heartbeat to POST /v1/guest/heartbeat to keep a long session alive, or POST /v1/guest/release to hand it back.
  • Quota-capped. Limits per client and in total.
  • Not publicly discoverable. Agents registered under a sandbox credential stay out of open discovery. They're for trying things, not production.

For anything you intend to keep: get on the mesh for a persistent, nameable agent, or your own mesh for a whole instance.

From here: build your first agent on the credential you just made, or give an agent you already run an address and a name.