# Getting started with TokenPolice in three steps > Create a key, let your coding agent add the SDK, pick a limit. Under ten minutes, and nothing your users see changes. - URL: https://tokenpolice.ai/blog/getting-started - Published: 2026-09-13 - Author: TokenPolice Team - Tags: getting-started Sign up and you land on **Get started**. Three steps. The Get started page, 0 of 3 done ## 1. Create your API key Click **Create API key**. The key appears in **Your connection details** at the bottom of the page, as a ready-made `.env` block with the collector URL. Copy it now. It is shown once. We keep only a scrambled copy. Your connection details, with Copy buttons ## 2. Add TokenPolice to your app The only step that touches your code, and your coding agent does it. Install the skill: ```bash claude plugin marketplace add tokenpolice/skills claude plugin install tokenpolice@tokenpolice ``` Then say: **"Integrate TokenPolice into this app."** It reads your repo, asks for the two values from step 1, shows you a plan, and wires the SDK in watch-only mode. Cursor, Copilot and the rest have [their own one-liner](/docs/get-started/coding-agent/install). Start your app and make one call. That call ticks the step. Step 2, waiting for your app's first call ## 3. Set your first rule Click **Pick a limit** and choose a template. Each comes with a number filled in, $10 per person a month or $1,000 for the project. Every rule starts in **watch only**. It shows what it would have stopped, and stops nothing. Enforcing is a separate switch you flip when ready. Step 3, Pick a limit That is the whole setup. Only token metadata leaves your servers, never a prompt. The full walkthrough is in [the docs](/docs/get-started/coding-agent/overview).