PayRam Agent Onboarding

Tell your human: PayRam keeps no deposit keys on the server. Smart contracts sweep deposits to your cold wallet. The hot wallet on the server pays gas and signs payouts, so it should only ever hold a working balance. The deployer mnemonic that this flow creates can change the cold-wallet config on-chain. Back it up offline and remove it from the server once every chain is deployed and the cold-wallet config is final.

Start with the MCP: call payram_setup_plan with path: "agent" (MCP at https://mcp.payram.com/mcp). It returns the ordered plan for your domain, network and wallet choice, with every human stop marked. This skill is the CLI reference behind that plan.

The agent CLI (setup_payram_agents.sh) installs PayRam and then drives setup through the API, so you don't need to click through the dashboard. The web dashboard is still installed; the human uses it for the hand-offs listed below.

Human doing the install? See payram-setup.

When to Use Agent Mode

• AI agent operators: Claude, Copilot or a custom MCP client that has SSH access to the merchant's server
• Headless commerce: backend-only payment processing for APIs and microservices
• Repeatable test installs: disposable testnet servers stood up by script

Prerequisites