Install Jentic One Beta
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the BeatAPI Developer API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbeatapi.io%2Fbeatapi" | shStep 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbeatapi.io%2Fbeatapi" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
What an agent can do with BeatAPI Developer API.
Generate text with chat completions or the Anthropic- and Gemini-compatible endpoints
Create image and video generation tasks and poll them to completion
Run Effects and multi-shot Music Video and Ecommerce Video workflows
Search, read, and map the web and research a question
Open short-lived Realtime Video sessions that return a client secret for the browser
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Register webhooks and read account usage and concurrency
Patterns agents use BeatAPI Developer API for, with concrete tasks.
★ AI Agent Media Generation
An AI agent produces images and video from prompts without a developer wiring separate generation services. Through Jentic the agent creates an image or video task on BeatAPI, polls it by its task_id, and reads the hosted output URL, while the bearer token stays on the developer's own machine.
Create an image generation task from a prompt, poll it by its task_id until complete, and return the hosted output URL
Asynchronous Task Workflow
Generation jobs take time, so BeatAPI returns a task the caller polls rather than blocking. An agent creates a task, polls the shared task endpoint by its task_id, and reads the result from the output once the job finishes, or subscribes to a webhook to be notified.
Create a video task, poll its status by task_id, and register a webhook to receive the completion event
Web Research
Agents often need current information before generating content. BeatAPI exposes web search, read, map, and research operations, so an agent can gather sources on a topic and feed them into a text completion in the same workflow.
Run a web search on a topic, read the top results, and summarize them with a chat completion
38 endpoints — the beatapi serves text, image, and video generation plus web search and realtime video behind one key.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
/v1/responses
Create a text response
/v1/chat/completions
Create a text chat completion
/v1/images/tasks
Create an image generation task
/v1/videos/tasks
Create a video generation task
/v1/tasks/{task_id}
Poll task status
/v1/web/search
Search the web
/v1/models
List available text models
/v1/realtime/sessions
Create a realtime browser session
/v1/responses
Create a text response
/v1/chat/completions
Create a text chat completion
/v1/images/tasks
Create an image generation task
/v1/videos/tasks
Create a video generation task
/v1/tasks/{task_id}
Poll task status
/v1/web/search
Search the web
/v1/models
List available text models
/v1/realtime/sessions
Create a realtime browser session
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring BeatAPI by hand means choosing between its bearer and API-key auth, polling the shared task endpoint, and handling realtime session secrets yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import BeatAPI from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
A single key reaches every BeatAPI operation, so a rule bounds the agent to the operations it needs, such as creating image tasks and polling results. You choose which operations it may call, so webhook deletion and closing other sessions are not included unless you add them.
Credential isolation
Your BeatAPI key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'generate an image' or 'search the web', and Jentic returns the matching BeatAPI operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
Specific to using BeatAPI Developer API through Jentic.
Is there a BeatAPI MCP server?
You don't need an MCP server to give your agent the BeatAPI. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import it, store your credential once, and your agent calls it. Operations are discovered on demand, so no extra tool definitions load into the agent's context.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the BeatAPI?
Yes. Write a rule that allows only the generation and task-poll operations the agent needs, so it can create image or video tasks and read their output but cannot delete your webhooks, and every call is logged.
What authentication does the BeatAPI Developer API use?
The BeatAPI accepts a bearer token and also an API key in the `x-api-key` header, with Google-style key headers for its Gemini-compatible endpoint, as declared in its OpenAPI spec. Several endpoints, such as listing models and searching capabilities, are public and need no credential. Through Jentic your token or key is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at call time.
Can I generate images and video with the BeatAPI?
Yes. Create an image or video generation task, then poll the shared task endpoint by its task_id until the job finishes and read the hosted output URL from the result, or register a webhook to be notified.
How do I generate an image through Jentic?
Install Jentic One with `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh`, then import the BeatAPI from the Jentic API Directory and store your token. Your agent searches for 'generate an image' and Jentic returns the image-task operation with its input schema. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.
What are the rate limits for the BeatAPI Developer API?
The BeatAPI OpenAPI spec reports account usage and concurrency through a usage operation but does not publish fixed per-second rate limits. Check your account usage endpoint and plan for the concurrency ceiling that applies.
For Agents
Generate text, images, and video and search the web from one API: chat completions, image and video tasks you poll, Effects and video workflows, web research, and realtime video sessions.
Use for: Generate an image from a prompt, I want to create a video generation task, Create a chat completion with a text model, Poll a task until its output is ready
Not supported: Does not handle model training, payment processing, or long-term media storage. Use for generating text, images, and video and searching the web only.
The BeatAPI serves text, image, and video generation plus web search and realtime video behind one key. It creates text responses and chat completions through OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Gemini-compatible endpoints, and runs image, video, Effects, and multi-shot video workflows as asynchronous tasks the caller polls. Web search, read, map, and research operations return hosted results, and short-lived Realtime Video sessions hand a client secret to the browser.
This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.
Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.
Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.
Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.
Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).
Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.
Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.
How richly the API is illustrated with examples.
Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.
Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).
Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.
Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.
Coverage of descriptions across API elements.
Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.
Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.
Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.
Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.
Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.
Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.
Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).
Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.
Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.
Score it yourself
Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>