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Add Tako to your agent

The fastest way to build with Tako. Paste one prompt into your coding agent to wire Tako into an existing project, or create a new Tako agent from the console.

Installation

Tako ships official SDKs for Python and TypeScript / JavaScript. Every endpoint is also a single POST, so any other language works over the REST API directly.
For one-click MCP setup in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and VS Code, see the MCP server page.

Get your API key

1

Sign up for free credits

New to Tako? Sign up and get free credits to start building.
2

Create an API key

Create an API key from your Tako console.
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Store it as an environment variable

Store it as an environment variable — for example TAKO_API_KEY — rather than hardcoding it.

Pick the right tool

Each API is a single call over the same curated, real-time data — here’s what each one is for, and why it beats a generic search API. Expand a tool to see when to reach for it.
  • Rank a cohort. “Which of the 20 largest US semiconductor companies grew revenue fastest since 2015?” — the Agent resolves the set, pulls each company’s data, and ranks them in one long-running run you dispatch and poll.
  • Background research job. Kick off an overnight run that compiles a competitor’s funding history, headcount, and recent filings into one cited brief, and read it when it finishes.
Learn more about Agent
  • Answer in a chat assistant. A support bot hits “What was NVIDIA’s latest quarterly revenue?” mid-conversation and gets back the written answer plus its sources in one call — no retrieval to wire up.
  • Keep a page current. A weekly market-recap page renders “How did the S&P 500 do this week?” with the cards behind it, then re-runs each morning to keep the copy fresh.
Learn more about Answer
  • Mass-query for an agent. Fan out Search calls to grab fresh data fast — pull this quarter’s revenue for all 30 holdings in a portfolio at once, one call per ticker, with no LLM in the loop — then compute on the results.
  • Embed a live chart. A dashboard drops a live “Gold price, last 5 years” card into the page from a single query.
Learn more about Search
  • Feed exact numbers to an agent. After Search returns a card, the agent downloads its CSV and computes a 3-year growth rate on the real series instead of guessing from prose.
  • Pull a series into a notebook. An analyst pulls “US CPI, year over year” straight into a pandas dataframe or spreadsheet to chart it themselves.
Learn more about Contents
Already have your own data? Thin-Viz turns it into interactive, embeddable Tako cards. Want to see what data is available? The Data Graph lets you explore the entities and metrics Tako covers, then pin exactly what you find into Search. It consumes no credits, so it’s the cheapest way to find out what Tako has before you query it.

Make your first request

Pick the use case closest to what you’re building. Each is a single call over the same real-time data — the code and the live result below both change to match.
Search returns fast, structured knowledge cards for a query — no LLM in the loop. Ideal for pulling live prices you render or compute on yourself.

Code

Result

A knowledge card — a full data series with its sources, ready to render or compute on.

Next steps

Developer Playground

No setup required. Try a simple query like “Nvidia earnings” or a long-form prompt to see what Tako returns.

What is Tako?

Learn more about Tako’s key concepts and functionality.