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Start using the platform to manage Honcho instances for your workspace or app.
1. Go to app.honcho.dev
Create an account to start using Honcho. If a teammate already uses Honcho, ask them to invite you to their organization. Otherwise, you’ll see a banner prompting you to create a new one.

2. Activate your Honcho instance
Navigate to the Billing page to activate your subscription. Your Honcho instance provisions automatically, and you can monitor the deployment on the Instance Status page until all systems show a green check mark.


3. Manage API Keys
The API Keys page allows you to create and manage authentication tokens for different environments. You can create admin-level keys with full instance access or scope keys to specificWorkspaces
, Peers
, or Sessions
.

4. Test with API Playground
The API Playground provides a Postman-like interface to test queries, explore endpoints, and validate your integration. Authenticate with an API key and send requests directly to your Honcho instance with real-time responses and full request/response logging.
5. Workspaces
The Explore page provides comprehensiveWorkspace
management where you can create workspaces and begin exploring the platform. Each Workspace
serves as a container for organizing your Honcho data.

Peers
and Sessions
. Here you can quickly create Peers
, Sessions
, and add multiple Peers
to any Session
. Edit the metadata and configuration for a Workspace
with the Edit Config button. Click into any entity to navigate to their respective utilities pages or click the expand icon to view Workspace-wide Peers
and Sessions
data tables with more details.

6. Peer Dashboard & Utilities
Expand thePeers
list from the Workspace
dashboard to see a detailed view of Peers
.

Peer
name you can edit the Global Peer Configuration, and in the tabs below, explore all utilities for the Peer
.

- Message search across all sessions for a
Peer
- Dialectic Chat to query
Peer
representations globally or session-scoped (results vary dependant on thePeer
’s configuration)

- Session logs view which
Sessions
thePeer
is active - Peer configuration and metadata management including Session-Peer Configuration

7. Session Dashboard & Utilities
Click into the sessions view within a workspace to see a table of all of yourSessions
data.

Session
to open its utilities page.

- View and add Messages within the
Session
; filter messages byPeer
- Advanced search across
Session
messages - Peer management for adding/removing
Peers
and editing aPeer
’s Session-level configuration - Get Context to generate LLM-ready context with customizable token limits

8. Webhooks Integration
The Webhooks page enables Webhook creation and management.
9. Organization Member Access
The Members page provides organization administration to manage your team’s access to Honcho with the ability to grant admin permissions.
Go Further
View the Architecture to see how Honcho works under the hood. Dive into our API Reference to explore all available endpoints.Next Steps
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