Developer portal

This page is the front door for building on Descanto: where to get credentials, where every developer resource lives, and how to try the platform before you wire it into anything real.

Get API keys

Descanto is in early access, so keys are provisioned per organization:

1. Request access — tell us your use case and preferred tier.
2. Once onboarded, sign in and create a key with descanto login or POST /v1/keys (API keys reference).
3. Keys look like canto_sk_... and are org-scoped: a key only ever sees its own organization's desktops. See Orgs and auth.

Descanto documentation

• Quickstart — first desktop in five minutes: create, wake, exec, hibernate, shown with curl, the SDK, and MCP.
• Concepts — the hibernation model, lifecycle states, snapshots, forking, port ingress, and billing.
• API reference — every route and status code, plus the versioning and deprecation policy and rate-limit conventions.
• Webhooks — HMAC-signed lifecycle events with a full delivery log.

Descanto tools and clients

• OpenAPI spec — machine-readable contract at descanto.com/openapi.json (also served live at GET /v1/openapi.json).
• TypeScript SDK — npm install @descanto/sdk.
• Python SDK — pip install descanto-vm, sync and async.
• CLI — npm install -g @descanto/cli, then descanto --help.
• MCP server — npx -y @descanto/mcp: drive desktops from Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
• llms.txt — the agent-facing guide at descanto.com/llms.txt, including when-to-use guidance and markdown content negotiation.

Sandbox

Two ways to experiment without touching production quota:

• Self-hosting — run the whole stack (controld + hostd) locally or on your own hardware; the API surface is identical, so anything you build against a self-hosted instance works unchanged against the hosted platform.
• Fork-and-discard — fork a desktop, experiment destructively on the copy, and destroy it; the parent is never touched.

Support

Questions, bug reports, or a fleet to size: [email protected], the contact form, or GitHub.