# Ploton

> Ploton is infrastructure for AI agents. One API call, and your agent can connect third-party services, authenticate users, fetch live data, and recover from failures. No SDK required -- just HTTP.

## Getting Started

- [Introduction](https://ploton.ai/docs/getting-started/introduction): What Ploton is, the problem it solves, and how it works
- [Quickstart](https://ploton.ai/docs/getting-started/quickstart): Create your first task in under 5 minutes
- [Installation & Setup](https://ploton.ai/docs/getting-started/installation): Environment variables, API keys, and webhook endpoint setup

## Core Concepts

- [Tools](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/tools): External capabilities Ploton connects to -- databases, APIs, OAuth services, shell commands
- [Tasks](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/tasks): The core unit of work -- lifecycle, creation, errors, and trained tasks
- [Workflows](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/workflows): Self-generating workflows at runtime -- no DAGs, adaptive execution

## Architecture

- [Webhooks](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/webhooks): Event types, payload format, retry behavior, signature verification
- [Agents](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/agents): Integration patterns for LangChain, CrewAI, and custom agent loops
- [Authentication](https://ploton.ai/docs/core-concepts/authentication): API keys, webhook secrets, managed OAuth

## API Reference

- [API Overview](https://ploton.ai/docs/api-reference/overview): Base URL, response format, error codes, rate limits, pagination
- [REST API](https://ploton.ai/docs/api-reference/rest-api): Create, get, list, cancel tasks and get execution traces
- [Webhooks Reference](https://ploton.ai/docs/api-reference/webhooks): Complete event payloads, delivery behavior, signature verification code

## Guides

- [Prompt Engineering](https://ploton.ai/docs/guides/prompt-engineering): Write task prompts that produce reliable, structured results
- [Registering Custom Tools](https://ploton.ai/docs/guides/registering-custom-tools): Extend Ploton with your own APIs and services
- [Deploying](https://ploton.ai/docs/guides/deploying): Production checklist, monitoring, error handling

## Optional

- [Pricing](https://ploton.ai/pricing): Pay-as-you-go at $0.75/task, prepaid volume packs, trained tasks add-on