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1. Go to app.honcho.dev

Create an account to start using Honcho. If a teammate already uses Honcho, ask them to invite you to their organization. Otherwise, you’ll see a banner prompting you to create a new one.
Honcho Platform Dashboard
Once you’ve created an organization, you’ll be taken to the dashboard and see the Get Started page with integration guidance and links to documentation. Honcho Dashboard Getting Started Each organization has dedicated infrastructure running to isolate your workloads. Until you activate a subscription under the Billing page, the infrastructure will remain inactive.

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2. Activate your Honcho instance

Navigate to the Billing page to activate your subscription. Your Honcho instance provisions automatically, and you can monitor the deployment on the Instance Status page until all systems show a green check mark. Instance Status Page You can also upgrade Honcho when new versions are made available directly from the status page. Upgrade Honcho The Performance page provides comprehensive monitoring with usage metrics, health analytics, API response times, and endpoint usage across Honcho. Performance Analytics Dashboard

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3. Manage API Keys

The API Keys page allows you to create and manage authentication tokens for different environments. You can create admin-level keys with full instance access or scope keys to specific Workspaces, Peers, or Sessions. API Key Management Dashboard

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4. Test with API Playground

The API Playground provides a Postman-like interface to test queries, explore endpoints, and validate your integration. Authenticate with an API key and send requests directly to your Honcho instance with real-time responses and full request/response logging. API Playground Interface

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5. Workspaces

The Explore page provides comprehensive Workspace management where you can create workspaces and begin exploring the platform. Each Workspace serves as a container for organizing your Honcho data. Workspace Table Click into any workspace to access a general overview of Peers and Sessions. Here you can quickly create Peers, Sessions, and add multiple Peers to any Session. Edit the metadata and configuration for a Workspace with the Edit Config button. Click into any entity to navigate to their respective utilities pages or click the expand icon to view Workspace-wide Peers and Sessions data tables with more details. Workspace Dashboard Overview

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6. Peer Dashboard & Utilities

Expand the Peers list from the Workspace dashboard to see a detailed view of Peers. Peer Dashboard Click into any peer to navigate to their respective utilities page. Next to the Peer name you can edit the Global Peer Configuration, and in the tabs below, explore all utilities for the Peer. Peer Management Dashboard Utilities include:
  • Message search across all sessions for a Peer
  • Dialectic Chat to query Peer representations globally or session-scoped (results vary dependant on the Peer’s configuration)
Chat Endpoint
  • Session logs view which Sessions the Peer is active
  • Peer configuration and metadata management including Session-Peer Configuration
Peer Management Dashboard

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7. Session Dashboard & Utilities

Click into the sessions view within a workspace to see a table of all of your Sessions data. Sessions Table Click into a Session to open its utilities page. Session Utilities Here you can:
  • View and add Messages within the Session; filter messages by Peer
  • Advanced search across Session messages
  • Peer management for adding/removing Peers and editing a Peer’s Session-level configuration
  • Get Context to generate LLM-ready context with customizable token limits
Get Context

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8. Webhooks Integration

The Webhooks page enables Webhook creation and management. Webhooks Dashboard

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9. Organization Member Access

The Members page provides organization administration to manage your team’s access to Honcho with the ability to grant admin permissions. Members Dashboard

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Go Further

View the Architecture to see how Honcho works under the hood. Dive into our API Reference to explore all available endpoints.

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