Getting Started with AI Agents

First, create your Open Source Cloud account. Navigate to the OSC console:

Enter your email address and click continue. Check your inbox for a verification code, then enter the code to verify your account.

After verifying your email, you'll be prompted to create a team. Teams are how OSC organizes your services and resources.

Enter a team name (e.g., your company name or project name) and click the Create Team button.

Claude Code is Anthropic's official CLI tool that brings AI assistance directly to your terminal. Install it using npm:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

After installation, verify it works by running claude --version

Connect Claude Code to Open Source Cloud by adding OSC as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Run this command:

claude mcp add --transport http osc https://ai.svc.prod.osaas.io/mcp

This registers OSC as an available tool server that Claude can use to manage cloud services on your behalf.

Launch Claude Code in your terminal:

claude

This starts an interactive session where you can chat with Claude and use the connected MCP servers.

Inside Claude Code, connect to the OSC MCP server:

/mcp osc

Claude will now have access to all OSC tools and can help you manage open source services.

Ask Claude to authenticate with your OSC account:

> Authenticate with Open Source Cloud

A browser window will open where you can log in with the account you created earlier and authorize Claude to access OSC on your behalf.

Now you're ready to create your first service! Ask Claude in natural language:

> Create a MySQL database for me

Claude will use the OSC MCP tools to provision a MySQL instance. Once complete, you'll receive connection details including host, port, username, and password.