Tao Is Live — One Key for Every Model and Service

Tao is the capability gateway for your agents. Models, search, fetch, storage — everything your agents need, wired up behind a single key, billed in credits.

## How to connect

The first time you open Yao Agents, it asks how you want to set things up:

- **Use Tao Service (recommended)** — one key, and every service is configured for you.
- **Bring Your Own Key** — plug in OpenAI, Anthropic, local Ollama, and so on, service by service.

![Choose how to connect](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-1-en-$__THEME.png)

Pick **Use Tao Service**, then sign up. Head to [yaoagents.com](https://yaoagents.com) and register with an email code or Google — you get **1,000 credits**. Invite a friend and you both get 2,000.

![Sign up](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-3-en-$__THEME.png)

In the console, hit **Create New Key** and copy the key — it's shown once.

![Console](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-4-en-$__THEME.png)

![Create key](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-6-en-$__THEME.png)

Back in the app, paste the key and click **Verify and Configure**.

![Configure Tao Service](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-7-en-$__THEME.png)

Once it's connected, Settings shows **Connected** and your balance. Model configuration fills in automatically — chat, vision, audio, embeddings, and structured decisions all point at Tao.

![Connected](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-9-en-$__THEME.png)

![Model configuration](https://assets.yaoagents.com/en/tao/account-setup-10-en-$__THEME.png)

## Or call it directly

Tao speaks the OpenAI API, so you can use it without Yao Agents:

```bash
curl https://api.yaoagents.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-tao-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"<model>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'
```