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Keystroke is designed for building with your coding agent. This page helps your coding agent get set up with Keystroke. For a step-by-step walkthrough you run yourself, see the Quickstart.

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Give your agent the setup prompt

The fastest path to setting up Keystroke is giving your agent the following prompt: 
Read https://keystroke.ai/start.md then help me create my first agent.

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What your agent gets

keystroke init scaffolds a project that’s ready for a coding agent from the first commit:
FileWhat it gives your agent
AGENTS.mdBaseline context: the CLI, project layout, discovery, and working habits
CLAUDE.mdSymlink to AGENTS.md so Claude Code picks it up automatically
tsconfig.jsonCommitted TypeScript config (extends @keystrokehq/cli/tsconfig.json)
package.jsonScripts for keystroke dev, build, lint, typecheck, and test
src/An example agent to read and extend
Beyond this baseline, your agent reads the full docs on demand with keystroke docs search and keystroke docs query — see docs for agents. Most coding agents read AGENTS.md automatically when they open the project, so they’re oriented before you ask for anything.

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Start building

With the project open in your coding agent, just describe what you want. For example: 
Build a morning brief agent. It should scan my Google Calendar, Gmail inbox, and Linear issues each weekday morning and send me a short briefing in Slack.

Build a meeting recap agent. It should trigger whenever one of my Google Meet calls finishes, turn the transcript into action items, and send me a recap in Slack.

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Build over MCP instead

If you’d rather build from a chat-first agent like ChatGPT or Claude — with no local install — connect the Keystroke MCP server. Your agent works in a hosted workspace with the same docs access and deploy loop, so you skip keystroke init entirely.

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Give your agent the docs

This page is often the first thing an agent reads. You can hand it Keystroke’s docs in a context-aware way:
  1. All the docs (llms.txt) Point your agent at the complete, machine-readable docs index: 
    Here are the Keystroke docs: https://keystroke.ai/docs/llms.txt
  2. A single page as markdown Append .md to any docs URL to get a clean markdown version: 
    Docs for this page: https://keystroke.ai/docs/build-with-ai/onboarding.md
  3. In your editor Every docs page can be copied or opened directly in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or an MCP client from the menu at the top of the page.