# Quickstart

Kraftify runs backing infrastructure for the apps you have an agent writing. You ask for a Postgres or a game server, the box is created, and the connection string lands where the app expects it. The same catalogue is available over an [MCP server](/docs/mcp), so Claude Code, OpenCode and Cursor can do the whole thing as tool calls: no browser, no dashboard, and no credential pasted into a conversation.

> No region is funded yet, so `kraftify deploy` will not start anything. It will tell you which regions are waiting and stop. Nothing is charged and no preorder has been taken. See Region status.

## Install the CLI

```
npx kraftify-cli@latest --version
```

That works anywhere Node 20 or newer runs. To keep it around, install it globally instead:

```
npm install -g kraftify-cli
```

> The package is live on npm as `0.0.0-preview`. The preview runs entirely on your machine: `kraftify init` wires it into your agent, `kraftify mcp` runs the stdio server agents launch, `kraftify preview` walks the simulated tools, and `kraftify status` shows what is registered. Nothing is provisioned and no request leaves the machine. See the npm package.

## Log in

Authentication opens a browser once, then stores a token on the machine. The same token backs the [dashboard](/dashboard) and the CLI, so you do not manage two sets of credentials.

```
kraftify login
```

## Check what is available

`status` is the honest first command. It lists every region and whether it is live, which today means none of them are.

```
kraftify status
```

Once a region goes live the same command shows the nodes you have and how much of each you have used.

## Deploy, once there is a region

```
kraftify deploy --kind postgres --name app-db --region eu
```

The log streams in place, and `Ctrl+C` detaches without stopping the target. Reattach with `kraftify logs <id>`.

## Or wire it into your agent

```
npx add-mcp https://mcp.kraftify.net/mcp
```

Then ask for a database in plain language. The [recipes](/docs/agent-recipes) page has the tool calls written out, and [A database for your app](/docs/database) has the two-step version for people who want to read it first.