Your first 15 minutes

Run an agent in your browser, free, no signup

1. Open www.apxai.co/demo. No account, no card.
2. Click the AP Agent and run a preset like "Review this function for bugs."
3. Now switch to the xAI Agent and try a deploy-debug task, and watch how it reasons about a broken deploy.

Honest callout: these demo runs return guided example responses so you can feel the flow without any setup. It's a tour, not your project. The next step is fully real on your own machine.

DeployDoctor, free, no key required

1. Copy a real deploy error: a build log, a stack trace, or kubectl logs output.
2. Paste it at www.apxai.co/deploy-doctor. No error handy? Try a sample like EADDRINUSE or Prisma P3009.
3. Click Diagnose (free, runs locally) and you get a plain-English diagnosis, the exact commands to run, and a downloadable fix.sh.

Note: the fix.sh ships with its destructive lines commented out by design. That's on purpose. Read it before you run it, then uncomment only what you understand.

The lesson: that ran with no key and no charge because the common fixes are solved locally from a library of ~180 recipes. You only bring a key for the rare cases that need AI, and that's exactly the next step.

Use one of YOUR OWN keys, safely

A key is just a password that unlocks a paid service. Here's the only rule that matters first:

Rule #1: never put a key in your code, or in any file you push.

1. Get a key from your own provider, for example platform.openai.com. It's your account, your key.
2. Put it in an environment variable, not in your source:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-own-key...
# on a real project, keep it in a .env file that is gitignored, 
# so it lives on your machine and never gets pushed

Now DeployDoctor's AI escalation (the rare cases from step 2) can use your key, cheapest-first. The value is sent only at use-time and is never stored.

The mental model: names are public, values are private. Your keys are YOURS, on your machine, and you never need anyone else's.

The VS Code extension, free download

1. Download the .vsix free from www.apxai.co/extension (~632 KB), no charge, no account. It's a VS Code extension, so you install it, you don't double-click it.
2. Install it from your terminal:

code --install-extension apxai-mission-control.vsix

…or drag the file into the VS Code Extensions panel, Install from VSIX.

1. Open the APxAI icon in the sidebar and run "APxAI: Run Self-Test."
2. In open beta you can leave the token blank, since it works keyless while we're in beta.

The Brain watches your live site

The hardest bugs aren't in your code. They're the day a key quietly expires and your live app breaks. The Brain is the safety net: it watches a live site and flags a dead or expiring key BEFORE the app breaks.

Build with AI, verify with your own code, and never get hacked through a leaked key.

These views are read-only and real. Peek at how the agents coordinate and what they're watching: