{"slug": "show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves", "title": "Show HN: An OpenAI-compatible API that coding agents sign up for themselves", "summary": "ScaledThought launched an OpenAI-compatible API on Hacker News's Show HN that lets coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sign themselves up by pasting a single line, which provisions open models, API keys, and budgets with pay-per-token billing from prepaid credits. The signup link carries the campaign code `org-hn` for attribution, and an alternative agent-readable path is offered at scaledthought.com/llms.txt. ScaledThought states it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, or any model publisher.", "body_md": "scaledthought.com/go/org-hn\n\n# Paste one line. Your agent sets up open models, keys and budgets.\n\nClaude Code, Codex, Cursor or any agent that can run commands. Pay per token from prepaid credits.\n\nOr run it yourself:\n\nThis link adds one thing to your account: the campaign code `org-hn`, so we know which ad worked. Prefer not to? Use [scaledthought.com/llms.txt](https://scaledthought.com/llms.txt) instead. [Privacy](https://scaledthought.com/legal/privacy).\n\nNot affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor or any model publisher. Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenAI and model names are trademarks of their owners.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves", "canonical_source": "https://scaledthought.com/go/org-hn", "published_at": "2026-10-12 07:45:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-12 08:09:16.272301+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["ScaledThought", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Cursor", "Anthropic", "OpenAI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-openai-compatible-api-that-coding-agents-sign-up-for-themselves.jsonld"}}