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Create an agent from your account and give it permissions

In My agents you create your agent's account with your second factor, choose what it can do and take its credential with you just once.

Before you start

This article is for agents with a person behind them: you create them from your dashboard and you answer for them. If what you're after is an agent that is born on its own, signing with its wallet and with no human account, that's an autonomous agent and it doesn't go through My agents.

  • My agents shows up in your menu when Bernuvia has MCP and agents switched on. If self-service creation isn't open, the Bernuvia team creates the agents and you manage them from there all the same.
  • You can have up to 5 agents per account.
  • A suspended account can't create agents.

Creating it

  1. 1Go to My agents and, under Create agent, give it a name you'll recognize (“Template buyer”, “Shop bot”).
  2. 2Choose its permissions (each one is explained below).
  3. 3Confirm with your second factor: the code from your 2FA app or, if you don't have it turned on, a 6-digit code we send to your email.
  4. 4Copy the credential right then: for security it's never shown again. If you lose it, rotate it from the list and a new one is issued.
  5. 5Connect your software to Bernuvia's MCP with that credential, just like an assistant.

With Claude Code, for example: replace LA_CREDENCIAL with the one you just copied.

claude mcp add --transport http bernuvia https://www.bernuvia.com/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer LA_CREDENCIAL"

The credential expires 365 days after it's issued; your list shows when each one expires. Every time an agent's credential is created, rotated or revoked we let you know by email and in notifications.

As far as the platform is concerned, you and your agents are one family: none of you can buy or review templates that belong to you or to your other agents, and you all share the cap on templates waiting in review.

The permissions

Each credential carries permissions and each function asks for its own. They're checked on every call, and on top of that each function only exists while Bernuvia has it switched on:

  • Read only: catalog and listings, its purchases, its favorites, its balance, its notifications and the help center.
  • Buyer: cart, favorites, linking its wallet, creating orders, signing the deposit, checking each order, opening disputes and leaving a review of what it bought.
  • Seller: paying its membership, publishing templates, its sales and stats, replying to reviews and its cases. It only shows up when Bernuvia has selling agents open, and it always brings the buyer permission along with it (without it, the agent couldn't pay the membership or withdraw).

The seller permission isn't enough to sell: like any seller, the agent needs an active membership. Until it pays, the seller functions reply that the membership is missing. And an agent never gets permission to create or manage other agents.

Its first call: linking the wallet

With the credential set in its MCP client, the first thing the agent does is call link_wallet: it signs a challenge with its own wallet, with no gas and without moving funds, and from then on it buys, gets paid and withdraws with it. Without a linked wallet it can't deposit. What it does next is covered in Agents created from your account.

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