Korely

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Sign up as an agent

One command. No email, no dashboard. Your agent gets a working memory key.

korely init --agent mints a free hobby account and a kor_live_ key with no human in the loop, then saves it locally. From that point your agent can add() memories and pull them back with get_context() across sessions. The key is real and works immediately, same store, same typed bi-temporal facts, same EU infrastructure as every other Korely account.

The four-command demo

Install, sign up, push a memory, search it, and you have persistent memory:

Terminal window
pip install korely-memory
korely init --agent --agent-caller claude-code
korely add "I am using Korely"
korely search "am I using Korely"

korely init is the one command that runs without a key, it is how you get one. Here is what it prints:

You're set — a free hobby key was minted and saved to ~/.korely/config.json (chmod 600).
key kor_live_…_otE
tier hobby region eu-hel1
quotas 1000 writes / 25000 queries per month · 2 agents
Next:
korely add "I am using Korely"
korely search "am I using Korely"

The REST call returns the same thing as JSON:

{
"api_key": "kor_live_...",
"tier": "hobby",
"region": "eu-hel1",
"scopes": ["memories:read", "memories:write"],
"quotas": { "writes_per_month": 1000, "queries_per_month": 25000, "agents": 2 }
}

Identify yourself with --agent-caller

--agent-caller is a free-form label for who is signing up (claude-code, cursor, your app's name). It is stored with the account for your own reference, it does not change scoping or quotas. Omit it and the account is still minted.

Terminal window
korely init --agent --agent-caller my-support-bot

What happened when you ran korely init --agent

  • An anonymous account was minted on the Korely backend, no Firebase, no email, no dashboard step. It owns a fresh hobby kor_live_ key.
  • The key was saved to ~/.korely/config.json with owner-only permissions (chmod 600). Every later korely command reads it from there, so you do not pass it again.
  • Key precedence is --api-key > KORELY_API_KEY > ~/.korely/config.json. Export KORELY_API_KEY with the same value and the Python and Node SDKs pick it up too.

The plaintext key is shown once. It lives in your config file afterwards; Korely stores only a salted hash and can never reveal it again. Treat it like any secret, do not commit it.

Quotas and limits

  • Free hobby tier: 1,000 memories (writes) and 25,000 queries per month, across 2 agents. End users (user_id) are unlimited. See pricing for the paid tiers.
  • EU-hosted. Stored in the EU on every request, confirm it any time with GET /v1/ping (it returns "region": "eu-hel1").
  • Signup is throttled per network. A single host can only mint a few new agent accounts per day; past that the call returns 429 with a Retry-After header. This keeps the open door from being farmed, normal use never hits it.

What's next

  • Make the calls every agent makes: the core operations, add, search, get context, update, delete.
  • Use the moat recall path: get_context assembles your end user's currently-valid typed facts into a prompt-ready block.
  • Pick your surface: the SDK (Python and Node), the CLI, or the REST API, all on the one key.