Create your first agent

By the end of this section you’ll have a named agent answering your messages from the CLI, backed by the LLM provider of your choice.

The three steps

Stash an Anthropic or OpenAI key in the encrypted vault.

1. Store an LLM credential

One command. Pick a model and a name.

2. Create the agent

hiveloom chat <name> — a streaming REPL.

3. Chat from the CLI

What you’ll have at the end

A tenant-local agent reachable over the CLI. The next section, Connect a chat client, exposes the same agent over MCP so Claude Desktop and Cursor can talk to it too.