Step 01
Power up your OpenRouter account
Create or open your OpenRouter.ai account, add funds, and make sure you have enough balance for the models you want to run inside your command deck.
Quick Setup Quest
Three fast moves and your command deck is live.
Open Harness is intentionally simple to activate: fund the model layer, clear the crypto gate, paste your key, and enjoy a more private operator lane with isolated panel memory.
How-to video
Watch the setup once, then move fast every time after.
Use this walkthrough to see the exact order: OpenRouter funding, wallet-gated subscription, and where the API key lives inside the harness. The flow is short on purpose.
At-a-glance flow
Create or open your OpenRouter account and add credits.
Step 01 -> Step 02
Unlock your Open Harness subscription through the wallet gate.
Step 02 -> Step 03
Paste or save your OpenRouter API key in the right-side harness controls.
Step 02
Unlock your Open Harness lane with crypto
Choose your plan, complete your Open Harness subscription using your preferred crypto payment route, and let the access gate open your private operator lane.
Step 03
Drop your OpenRouter API key into the dashboard
Head into the Open Harness dashboard, paste your OpenRouter API key into the app settings, and you are ready to launch prompts, compare models, and move fast.
Enjoy
You are ready to run the harness.
Once those three steps are done, the rest is pure operator flow: open the dashboard, paste the key, and start testing prompts, panels, and model behavior at speed without collapsing everything into one shared conversation lane.
