---
title: "Auto for agents"
description: "Read Auto documentation through Markdown, search, MCP, and browser tools. Find the setup and authentication instructions for your own Auto Runtime."
url: "https://on.auto/for-agents"
last_updated: "2026-10-17T05:52:22-07:00"
---

# Auto for agents

Auto gives your agent a playbook with a brain to analyze, think ahead, act, and remember. This website publishes product information and documentation. Your playbooks run on your own Auto Runtime.

## Read the documentation

Start with [llms.txt](https://on.auto/llms.txt), the [Markdown sitemap](https://on.auto/sitemap.md), or [the complete documentation](https://on.auto/llms-full.txt). Every public page has a Markdown mirror: append `.md` to its URL, or use `/index.md` for the homepage. You can also request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`.

[Get started locally](https://on.auto/docs/get-started/local), [build your first playbook](https://on.auto/docs/tutorials/first-playbook), and read the [terminology](https://on.auto/docs/concepts/terminology). Use the published setup instructions for the current runtime version and prerequisites.

## Search and read tools

The discovery edge exposes a public, read-only documentation API:

*   `GET /api/docs?query=workflow&limit=8` searches the published pages.
*   `GET /api/docs/page?path=/docs/get-started/local` returns a page, its canonical URL, and Markdown.
*   `GET /health` reports whether this documentation service is available.

The [OpenAPI description](https://on.auto/openapi.json) and [API catalog](https://on.auto/.well-known/api-catalog) describe these endpoints. They do not create accounts or run playbooks.

Connect an MCP client using Streamable HTTP at `https://on.auto/mcp`. Its `search_auto_docs` and `read_auto_doc` tools read the same public pages. No key or sign-in is required. The [server card](https://on.auto/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json) describes the identity and transport.

Browsers supporting WebMCP expose the same two documentation tools on page load. Other browsers work normally.

## Build and run a playbook

Follow the [local setup guide](https://on.auto/docs/get-started/local) to connect your coding agent to Auto Runtime. That runtime's `/mcp` endpoint manages playbooks and runs; this site's `/mcp` only reads documentation.

For HTTP integrations, use your runtime's `/v1/openapi.json` and `/.well-known/api-catalog`. Its [HTTP API reference](https://on.auto/docs/reference/http) and [MCP reference](https://on.auto/docs/reference/mcp) describe the operations.

The [OpenAPI snapshot for the documented release](https://on.auto/runtime-openapi.json) is available without running a server. Use your runtime's live schema when calling it; the snapshot does not make those runtime operations available on this website.

## Authentication

Reading this website and its documentation tools requires no registration, credential, or OAuth grant. This origin is not an OAuth authorization server. [auth.md](https://on.auto/auth.md) documents public access and how to discover authentication on your own runtime.

For a protected Auto Runtime, discover its issuer from that runtime's `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`, then use the advertised authorization server. See [authentication and security](https://on.auto/docs/self-host/security) and the [sign-in and token reference](https://on.auto/docs/reference/authentication). Never send runtime credentials or model API keys to the public documentation tools.

## Skills and discovery

The [skills index](https://on.auto/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) publishes a documentation skill with a SHA-256 integrity digest. The [capability catalog](https://on.auto/.well-known/ai-catalog.json) links the documentation API, MCP server, and skill. All discovery formats are generated alongside the site so their links and content stay in sync.

## Sitemap

See the [full documentation and product sitemap](https://on.auto/sitemap.md) for related pages.