AgentKey

Congrats on the launch! The "one command, no integrations" angle is the part that stands out — connecting live data usually means wrangling a dozen MCP configs and babysitting them when one goes down. Curious how the auto failover picks its fallback source: is it latency-based, or does it rank by data freshness? Either way, this looks like a real time-saver for anyone building agents that touch the open web. 🚀

Super cool! Is it flexible enough to bring in data from specific sources that I already have access to for eg. as a student I used to have access to pitchbook but couldn't use it in the context of an agent because of integration limitations even if I have a subscription.

@lxcong ok that's the part I was missing - the explicit failure + re-fetch-schema-on-retry step. that's a smarter design than I gave it credit for, avoids the "silent swap" problem entirely instead of just handling it gracefully. makes sense why you'd avoid a universal schema too, that abstraction always leaks eventually.

This is a useful direction. Live external data is still one of the biggest gaps for agents, especially when workflows break because one source or integration fails.Curious how you handle source quality and freshness across different data types like search, finance, social, and e-commerce.

"No integrations, no setup" is the dream for anyone who's wired up 6 APIs by hand. The question I'd have as a builder: when a source changes or rate-limits, the auto-failover keeps the workflow running — but does the agent know it fell back to a different source, or does data quality silently shift underneath it? For anything touching finance/crypto that provenance matters a lot. Curious how you surface which source actually answered.

The idea seems terrific, but I think the name falls short of the ecosystem potential, among other things because it does not really make immediately clear what the product does. If you just drop me the name, I'd say it's some agent authentication thing.No intention to offend you guys or diminish the value of the work behind your product ;)

Really interesting approach. One question: if I already have my own API keys for some providers, can I use those with AgentKey, or does everything go through the AgentKey account?

With 1,800 endpoints and growing, how do you decide which providers to actually add versus turn down? Congrats on the launch!

Do i need to subscribe each database to pull data?

The tool discovery part is really interesting. As agents get access to more tools, managing context efficiently will become a huge challenge. How does AgentKey handle custom/private APIs?

It's useful. How does auto-failover decide which source to switch to when one goes down?

the interesting part isn't any single integration, it's that the agent gets a whole catalog. my research assistant went from "answers from training data" to "checked five live sources" with zero code from me.

For research workflows, having FRED + finnhub + yahoo finance next to social sentiment behind the same key is a sneaky-good combo. Macro context and market chatter in one loop.

Hey the token math on tool discovery is honestly the most concrete detail in the whole pitch. Going from roughly 35,000 tokens to about 1,500 by training a retrieval layer instead of dumping every endpoint definition into context is a real architecture decision, not just a marketing line, and it's the kind of problem that quietly breaks a lot of MCP integrations once they scale past a handful of tools for sure.But when the retrieval model picks the wrong endpoint for an ambiguous request, is that visible anywhere, or does a wrong pick just look like a silent bad result downstream?

Installing into Claude Code with one command is the right call — most MCP setups still die in config. Does failover switch sources silently, or does the agent get told the data came from a different provider?

Half my agent demos used to die live because one upstream API picked that moment to have an outage. Failover should be table stakes and somehow nobody else ships it.

honestly the auto failover part sounds super useful, would be great if there was a way to see which data source it switched to and why, like a quick log or notification. that way its easier to trust the results when something jumps from one provider to another.

Every cool MCP server I found wanted its own key from a service with its own signup and its own minimum spend. The unbundling was exhausting. Glad someone rebundled it.

Hi Product Hunt, I'm Mogu, founder of Chainbase. Today I'm really happy to share the newest project out of our lab: AgentKey. It's been in private beta for a while, and a few thousand people have been using it and helping us shape it along the way, so it finally feels ready to put in front of you here.

Here's the thing we kept coming back to. Agents have gotten genuinely good at doing tasks. What they don't have is eyes. They can reason and act, but they can't actually see the live internet, which is where almost all the useful tools and real-time data actually live. So you end up with a strange gap: an agent smart enough to do the work, sitting behind a window it can't look through.

And today, giving an agent those eyes is a chore. You wire up one API for search, another for scraping, another for social, another for market data. You babysit a pile of keys and bills, and you basically have to understand the plumbing before you can even start. Most people who'd benefit from this never get past that part.

So we built AgentKey. You install it like a plugin, and your agent gets access to a whole marketplace of capabilities behind a single account. No juggling APIs, no keys to manage, no need to be technical. One account, one bill, and your agent suddenly gets a lot more powerful.

Right now the marketplace is organized into a few tiers, and it keeps growing:

- Everyday tools: search, web scraping, social media
- Professional data: finance, crypto, business data
- Life and travel: weather, maps, trip planning, and more

It already plugs into 20+ of the agents people actually use, including Claude, Codex, Openclaw, WorkBuddy and Cursor. And because everything sits behind one marketplace, if a provider has a bad day your agent can fall back to another source and keep running.

We really believe agents are about to bloom into a huge, messy, wonderful ecosystem. What excites me most is that people can finally hand their agents the real, complicated work, not just the basic stuff, and actually trust it to get done. That's most of why we're launching here. It's free to start, no card needed. Please go try to break it and tell me what's missing. I'll be in the comments all day.