Introduction - Patchwork

Give your users an assistant that can actually do things — check an order, reschedule a booking, update their account — by wrapping the endpoints you already run. Patchwork runs the agent: the model, the tool calls, the approval gates, and a full trace. You decide exactly what it can touch, and who it acts for. We are never a privilege boundary. Every call we make to your backend is signed, and the agent can only ever do what the person it acts for could already do. The credentials, the brand, and the billing relationship stay yours.

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Quick start

A working agent in three requests. No connection, no signing keys.

Your first agent

Author and publish an agent in the dashboard, and get its id.

How it fits together

you author            we operate                 your users
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
patches      ──▶
agent        ──▶      runs the loop        ──▶     an assistant
connection   ──▶      calls your backend            in your product
                      records a trace

Four objects carry most of the system:

Object	What it is
Agent	What you authored — instructions, model, patches, guardrails. Named by a public id, `agent_…`.
Patch	A capability the agent can use. One of yours, one of ours, or a built-in primitive.
Connection	Where we call your backend, and how we authenticate when we do.
Subject	Who the agent is acting for. An opaque id you choose; it partitions everything.

A conversation is a thread; one turn of it is a run.

Without an agent: Workbench

Workbench is a small catalog of standalone REST products you call with an API key and no agent at all — identify resolves a bank account or wallet, and extract pulls structured fields out of a document. Use them on their own, or wire the same tools into an agent as patches.

Base URL

Everything public is under https://api.usepatchwork.co — JSON over HTTPS in a status envelope (Errors). Verifying your email puts $20 of credit in your workspace (Rate limits and credits).

​Start here

Quick start

Your first agent

​How it fits together

​Without an agent: Workbench

​Base URL

Start here

How it fits together

Without an agent: Workbench

Base URL