Create an account and an API key

A person does these steps in a web browser. An agent should ask the person to do them and to put the key in an environment variable, rather than signing up or signing in for them.

Prerequisites

An email address.
A web browser on any operating system.

Open strovio.xyz/signup.
Enter a name, an email address and a password of at least 8 characters, then choose to create the account.
Expected result: you land on the dashboard at strovio.xyz/dashboard, on a 14-day free trial. No card is needed.

If the email is already registered, sign in at strovio.xyz/login instead. Forgot the password: strovio.xyz/forgot-password.

2. Create an API key

Open strovio.xyz/developer (Developer in the dashboard sidebar).
Create a new key and give it a name that says where it will be used, for example laptop-claude-code.
Copy the key. It starts with sk_live_ and is shown only once.

Expected result: the key appears in the list with its first characters and a last-used time. Every key has full access to the account's files, including deleting them; there are no read-only keys yet.

The trial allows 1 key, Pro 5 and Team unlimited. If creation fails with "API key limit reached for your plan", delete an unused key on the same page or upgrade at strovio.xyz/billing.

3. Store the key

Keep it in an environment variable called STROVIO_API_KEY. The MCP server and the SDK read that name.

macOS and Linux (bash or zsh), for the current terminal:

export STROVIO_API_KEY="sk_live_..."

To keep it, add the same line to ~/.zshrc (macOS default) or ~/.bashrc.

Windows PowerShell, for the current window:

$env:STROVIO_API_KEY = "sk_live_..."

To keep it for your Windows user, run setx STROVIO_API_KEY "sk_live_..." and open a new terminal.

4. Confirm it works

macOS and Linux:

curl -s "https://strovio.xyz/api/v1/files?limit=1" -H "Authorization: Bearer $STROVIO_API_KEY"

Windows PowerShell (use curl.exe, because curl is an alias for a different command in Windows PowerShell 5.1):

curl.exe -s "https://strovio.xyz/api/v1/files?limit=1" -H "Authorization: Bearer $env:STROVIO_API_KEY"

Expected result: {"objects":[],"count":0} on a new account, or your newest file.

Common errors

401 with code invalid_api_key: the key is missing, mistyped or deleted. Check that the variable is set in this terminal (echo $STROVIO_API_KEY or echo $env:STROVIO_API_KEY) and that the header is exactly Authorization: Bearer sk_live_.... Create a new key if the old one was deleted.
The key was lost: keys are stored hashed and cannot be shown again. Create a new one and delete the old one.

Revoke a key

Delete it on strovio.xyz/developer. Requests with that key fail with 401 straight away.