# Introducing Jentic Mini

## 10,000+ APIs. Zero credential exposure.

The free, self-hosted integration layer for OpenClaw and other AI agents

[View GitHub](https://github.com/jentic/jentic-mini) [Read the Docs](https://github.com/jentic/jentic-mini?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start)

## Overview

### What is Jentic Mini?

Building agents that call real APIs is painful. You end up hardcoding auth, juggling secrets in prompts, writing bespoke glue code for every service, and hoping nothing leaks.

Jentic Mini fixes this. It's a free, self-hosted API execution layer that sits between your AI agents (OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and others) and the outside world. Your agent says what it wants to do. Jentic Mini handles the how: finding the right API, injecting credentials at runtime, and brokering the request.

Secrets never touch the agent. Ever.

"The next era of software will not be built for humans. It will be built for agents, by agents. Jentic Mini gives developers a free, open source foundation for that shift, connecting general-purpose agents to real systems through an AI-curated catalog of more than 10,000 APIs and workflows. We want to make it dramatically easier to deploy agents that do real work."

**Sean Blanchfield**  
CEO & Co-Founder, Jentic

## Install and Get Started

### Up and Running in One Command

**TerminalAgent Setup**  
`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-quick-claw/main/install.sh | sudo bash`

[View Full Setup Guide](https://github.com/jentic/jentic-quick-claw)

## Features

### Why It Matters

#### Encrypted Credentials Vault

Store API keys, OAuth tokens, and secrets in an encrypted local vault. Credentials are injected at execution time and never returned through the API. Your agents do their work. Your secrets stay yours.

#### Self-Hosted, Runs in Your Environment

Jentic Mini runs entirely in your own infrastructure. A single Docker instance gets you a FastAPI server backed by SQLite, with full Swagger docs and hot reload for development.

#### Toolkit-Scoped Permissions

One toolkit key per agent. Each toolkit bundles a set of credentials and an access policy, so every agent gets exactly the permissions it needs and nothing more. Revoke any agent's access instantly with a single killswitch.

#### 10,000+ APIs and Workflows

Jentic's expanding catalog spans over 10,000 APIs and workflow definitions, curated and maintained by AI agents. Think of it as a Hugging Face for APIs: a machine-readable map of the tools your agents can discover, search, and execute. Add credentials for any catalog API and Jentic Mini auto-imports its specs and workflows.

## Mini vs Hosted

### Choose the Right Fit

| Feature             | Jentic Mini                          | Jentic Hosted / VPC                                |
|---------------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| Search              | BM25 full-text search               | Advanced semantic search (~64% accuracy improvement)|
| Request Brokering    | In-process credential injection      | Scalable Lambda-based broker with encryption at rest, SOC 2-grade security, and vault integrations (HashiCorp, AWS Secrets Manager)|
| Simulation          | Basic simulate mode                 | Full sandbox for simulating API calls and toolkit behavior|
| Catalog             | ~1,044 API specs + ~380 workflow sources from the public catalog         | Central catalog aggregating collective agent know-how across APIs and Arazzo workflows|

[Learn More About Jentic Hosted](/content/pricing/index.html)

## Get Started

### Start Building

Jentic Mini is Apache 2.0 licensed, free to use, and ready to run. Get your agents connected to real systems today.

[View GitHub](https://github.com/jentic/jentic-mini) [Read the Docs](https://github.com/jentic/jentic-mini?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start)