Deploy to CreateOS

Use the gateway's wallet-authenticated HTTP flow. No browser session or OAuth is required.

Default gateway: https://mpp-createos.nodeops.network

Prefer the bundled script because it preserves the exact deployment body across the payment retry, filters secrets from uploads, uses fresh auth nonces, and verifies the final endpoint.

cd path/to/createos-deploy
bun install

# Inspect the 402 and stop before signing a payment.
bun run deploy -- --dir /path/to/project --name my-app --port 3000

# Pay the selected native MPP offer and deploy.
bun run deploy -- --dir /path/to/project --name my-app --port 3000 --chain arbitrum --yes

# Select x402 instead. It must be advertised by the gateway for that chain.
bun run deploy -- --dir /path/to/project --name my-app --port 3000 --chain bsc --protocol x402 --yes

Provide PRIVATE_KEY in the process environment or in a .env beside this skill. Never place it in the project being uploaded. Set CREATEOS_GATEWAY to test another gateway.

Safety boundaries

• Inspect the application source and determine its actual listening port before deploying. Do not trust stale deployment metadata.
• Unique project names are global across the platform, not per wallet. Always append a random suffix to the name, which the bundled script does for you. GET /agent/projects only lists your own projects, so it cannot detect a name another account holds.
• A 5xx on POST /agent/deploy is usually that collision rather than a gateway outage. Treat it as a name conflict first and retry with a fresh suffix; the gateway does not return 409 for names held by other accounts.
• The first POST /agent/deploy may immediately deploy when the wallet has enough unused credits. Quote-only mode prevents a new payment, but it cannot prevent this credit-funded behavior because the API has no separate quote endpoint.
• Without --yes, stop after presenting the selected protocol, network, recipient, and USDC amount.
• Treat the runtime 402 headers as authoritative. Do not hard-code a default payment chain from discovery metadata.
• Never submit both Authorization: Payment ... and PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
• After submitting a payment credential, never create and submit a second credential merely to recover from an error. Surface the receipt or challenge and transaction reference when available. A retry without payment headers is safe when credits may already exist.
• Confirm with the user immediately before deleting a project. Deletion is irreversible.

Payment behavior

Native MPP is the default protocol:

• Base, Arbitrum, and Arbitrum Sepolia use EIP-3009 USDC authorization. The agent signs an authorization; the gateway's settler broadcasts it and pays gas.
• BSC uses Binance B402 Permit2 Exact. The payment is gasless after the wallet has approved USDC to canonical Permit2. The script uses a bounded approval equal to the current payment amount; approval itself requires BNB gas.

x402 is optional:

• A chain is payable through x402 only when it appears in PAYMENT-REQUIRED.accepts.
• Base and Arbitrum-family x402 offers use EIP-3009.
• BSC x402 uses Binance B402 Permit2 Exact.
• x402 amount values are atomic token units. The wire schema does not carry decimals; use trusted local asset metadata.

The gateway currently models USDC on all supported chains. Always accept only a known chain ID and exact known token contract.

Deployment workflow

1. Inspect the project, determine port, and validate the project name before any deploy request. Append a random suffix to the unique name; keep the clean name as the display name.
2. Use GET /agent/projects to detect an existing name and show active projects whose runtime could be affected by shared credits. This check covers your wallet only, so the suffix stays mandatory.
3. Send POST /agent/deploy with fresh wallet-auth headers and no payment credential.
4. If it returns 200, deployment has already started using credits.
5. If it returns 402, inspect WWW-Authenticate for native MPP and PAYMENT-REQUIRED for x402. Select only the user-approved protocol and an advertised chain with sufficient USDC.
6. Create one credential and retry the identical body with either Authorization or PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
7. Preserve Payment-Receipt and PAYMENT-RESPONSE values in error reporting.
8. Poll the owned deployment every five seconds until ready or failed, with a fresh auth nonce each time.
9. Wait before fetching the endpoint. ready is the platform's status, not the container's: the app still has to boot and bind the port, so the first probes routinely return 404 or refuse the connection. Probe every ten seconds for up to two minutes and only judge the port after that. A 404 that survives the whole window can be the app's real answer at /; no answer at all points at the wrong --port.

Read references/api.md when implementing the flow without the bundled script or diagnosing a gateway response.