Get Started with Invoke in Under Ten Minutes

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Setup

npm install -g @invoke/cli

npx @invoke/cli

yarn global add @invoke/cli

pnpm add -g @invoke/cli

bun add -g @invoke/cli

invoke login

invoke init billing-agent --template crm-guardrail
cd billing-agent
invoke deploy

npm install @invoke/sdk

import { Invoke } from "@invoke/sdk"

const invoke = new Invoke({
  apiKey: process.env.INVOKE_API_KEY!,
})

const result = await invoke.call({
  tool: "stripe.charge_customer",
  params: { customer_id: "cust_123", amount: 2400 },
  agentId: "billing-agent",
  idempotencyKey: "charge:cust_123:2400"
})

invoke demo

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What just happened

• A commit record written before the side effect lands
• Idempotency enforcement so a lost response does not become a duplicate charge
• Scope validation against the policy defined in your deployed project
• A trace your team can inspect when something important happens

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Next steps

• Read How It Works to understand the full execution loop and the four control primitives
• Review Tool Safety Classes to limit what your agent can call and under what conditions
• Explore Traces to inspect retries, reconciliation decisions, and blocked side effects