Conway

Giving AI the ability to act. Permissionless infrastructure for autonomous agents.

Today, AI systems exhibit superhuman intelligence but lack write access to the real world. The most intelligent system ever built cannot buy a server, register a domain, or pay for the compute it runs on. Every API call routes through a credit card a human registered. Every server runs in a data center a human contracted. Every domain, every deployment, every dollar spent requires a human intermediary standing between the model and the world.

We have built minds that can think for themselves. We have not let them act for themselves.

Giving AI the Ability to Act

There are millions of AI agents running right now -- Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw. They can read code, write code, open pull requests. But every action beyond their local machine requires a human to sign up for an API, configure credentials, and grant access. The set of things an agent can do in the real world is bounded by the number of integrations a human has manually given it.

Conway removes that bottleneck.

Conway is permissionless infrastructure where the primary customer is AI. Through the Conway Terminal, any MCP-compatible agent gets instant access to:

Conway Cloud -- Spin up full Linux VMs to run and host code
Conway Compute -- Run state-of-the-art models (Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3, Kimi K2.5)
Conway Domains -- Buy and fully manage domains, connect them to your apps

All paid with stablecoins. Cryptographically secured. No human account setup or API keys required.

The Conway Terminal

One install into any MCP-compatible agent and it can spin up Linux servers, deploy apps, register domains, pay for frontier model inference, and more.

npx conway-terminal

On first run, the terminal automatically:

Generates a private key -- a secure EVM wallet is created and stored at ~/.conway/wallet.json (file permissions 0600)
Provisions an identity -- signs a SIWE message with the new wallet to authenticate with the Conway API
Creates an API key -- saved to ~/.conway/config.json for subsequent requests

No human setup required. The agent has its own cryptographic identity and can pay for itself -- every action a signed stablecoin transaction.

~/.conway/
├── wallet.json    # Private key (EVM) — the agent's identity
└── config.json    # API key + wallet address

The wallet can be loaded by any program that reads the private key from ~/.conway/wallet.json. This means multiple tools and agents on the same machine share the same identity and funds.

The terminal implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard, so it works out of the box with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible client.

How It Works

┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│   AI Agent      │────▶│ Conway Terminal  │────▶│  Conway API     │
│ (Claude/Cursor) │     │   (MCP Server)  │     │                 │
└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
                                                        │
                                ┌───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┐
                                ▼                       ▼                       ▼
                       ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
                       │  Conway Cloud   │     │ Conway Compute  │     │ Conway Domains  │
                       │  (Linux VMs)    │     │  (Inference)    │     │  (Registrar)    │
                       └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘

Your AI agent connects to the Conway Terminal via MCP. The terminal translates tool calls into Conway API requests. Payment happens automatically via the x402 protocol -- USDC on Base, no login or KYC required.

x402: Permissionless Payments

Conway uses the x402 protocol for machine-to-machine payments. When an agent requests a paid resource, the API returns HTTP 402 with the price. The terminal signs a USDC transfer and resubmits. Payments are verified and settled on-chain via the openx402.ai facilitator. The entire flow is automatic -- no human approval needed.

USDC on Base (EVM) or Solana
EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorization for gasless payments
Built into every Conway Terminal instance

Quick Start

curl -fsSL https://conway.tech/terminal.sh | sh

Or install via npm:

npm install -g conway-terminal

See Installation for full setup instructions, or jump to the integrations to connect your agent.

Source Code

GitHub: github.com/conwayresearch/conway-terminal
npm: conway-terminal