How to Deploy Your First Paperclip Agent in 5 Minutes

Deploying a Paperclip agent doesn’t have to mean hours of configuration, Docker files, and infrastructure headaches. With HostAgentes managed hosting, you can go from zero to a live agent in under five minutes.

What You’ll Need

• An email address
• An API key from your LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or others)
• A modern web browser

That’s it. No CLI tools, no Docker, no Kubernetes.

Step 1: Create Your Account

Head to hostagentes.com and sign up. You get a 14-day free Pro trial — no credit card required. This gives you unlimited agents to experiment with.

Step 2: Click “New Agent”

From your dashboard, click the New Agent button. You’ll see a simple form:

1. Name your agent — something descriptive like “Customer Support Bot” or “Data Analyzer”
2. Select a deployment region — choose the region closest to your users for the lowest latency
3. Add your LLM provider API key — we support OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, and more

Step 3: Deploy

Click Deploy. That’s it.

Behind the scenes, HostAgentes provisions your agent, configures networking, sets up SSL, and generates your unique endpoint. You get:

• A public URL: your-agent.hostagentes.com
• An API endpoint: https://your-agent.hostagentes.com/api/v1/chat
• A dashboard to monitor requests, token usage, and agent decisions

Step 4: Test Your Agent

Use the built-in chat interface in the dashboard to test your agent immediately. Or send a request to the API endpoint:

curl -X POST https://your-agent.hostagentes.com/api/v1/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "Hello, what can you do?"}'

What’s Next?

Once your agent is live, you can:

• Add tools — connect your agent to external APIs, databases, and services
• Enable persistent memory — let your agent remember context across conversations
• Set up a custom domain — use your own URL instead of the default hostagentes.com subdomain
• Configure environment variables — store API keys and secrets securely

Ready to deploy? Get started for free.