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Your first key

A Rikaido account, one key, and the harness answers. Ten seconds.

The account

The console is the same account as the app. Enter at developer.rikaido.app/console with your email, Apple or Google. No account yet? Create it there: it opens the app, the connector and this API at once.

The key

In the console, “New key”. Name it for where it lives — production, staging, your laptop. The key is shown once, at creation. Copy it right away; the console keeps only its start and its end.

the shape of a key

rk_live_5ec4f98651e559f1_dd29uJbTMFxHaZ5nn5j_3VXpuepU3hv_
        └─ id, 16 hex ─┘ └────── secret, 32 characters ─────┘

The secret is hashed at creation and never stored. A lost key is not recovered: revoke it and mint another.

Sending it

The key travels in the Authorization header, like a token:

curl

curl https://api.rikaido.app/v1/harness/validate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer rk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @recipe.json

What it costs

The first 500 calls of every month are on us, no card. Past that, every call waits for a card on file — Usage and pricing has the rest.