# Where to start with Hanzo — Hanzo AI

> Six ways in, and what each one is actually for. Some are a page you read, some are a command you run. None of them need a sales call first.

Playground

# Where to start

Six ways into Hanzo, and what each one is actually for. Some are a page you read, some are a command you run. None of them need a sales call first.

[Open Zen playground](https://hanzo.ai/zen)[Browse open source](https://github.com/hanzoai)

Paste and ship

Paste this into any agent. It reads the skill manifest and calls Playground from there.

Agent promptapi /v1/chat/completionsCopy

```
Read https://hanzo.ai/skill.md and use Hanzo Playground in my project.
```

## Pick what to try

Reach for the one that matches the problem in front of you.

### Zen models

The family we train ourselves — 0.6B you can run on a laptop up to frontier. Most are open weight; read the specs and the price per million tokens.

[See the models](https://hanzo.ai/zen)

### Bot

Bots as backend services: routing, async runs that last hours, durable state, and an identity per bot instead of a shared key.

[Read about Bot](https://hanzo.ai/bot)

### MCP

Thirteen tools — shell, files, code, git, HTTP — behind one server. One block in .mcp.json and your client has them.

[Set up MCP](https://hanzo.ai/mcp)

### Hanzo Dev

A coding agent in your terminal. It opens the files, makes the change, runs the tests, and shows you the diff.

[Install Dev](https://hanzo.ai/dev)

### Chat

One thread with every model, your MCP tools, your files and a code sandbox. The first two questions need no account.

[Open Chat](https://hanzo.ai/chat)

### Agents

A Python SDK where an agent is a model, instructions and tools — and several of them can sit behind one router.

[Read the SDK](https://hanzo.ai/agents)

## Or copy-paste a starter

A key, a model name, and a message is the whole first request.

curlOne request

```
curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \ -d '{"model":"zen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
```

pythonThe Python client

```
pip install hanzoai import os from hanzoai.cloud import ApiClient, Configuration, KeysApi api = ApiClient(Configuration( host="https://api.hanzo.ai", access_token=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"], )) print(KeysApi(api).get_keys().keys)
```

## Start building with Playground

[Get your API key](https://platform.hanzo.ai/api-keys)

One API key. One credit balance. Every primitive.

Related capabilities

[ModelsOpen-weight model garden](https://hanzo.ai/models)[Providers](https://hanzo.ai/cloud/providers)[AgentsBuild & run agents](https://hanzo.ai/agents)

## Open source

License: Apache-2.0[hanzoai](https://github.com/hanzoai)

## Get Playground

Hands-on sandbox for every product

[Deploy to Cloud](https://platform.hanzo.ai/deploy)