# Effective API

> Use the Effective REST API from your applications and AI agents.

- [Overview](https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/getting-started/overview.md): Connect to Effective and use the public V2 API from your applications and agents.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/getting-started/quickstart.md): Create a user API key, make one request, and confirm your Effective tenant.
- [Authentication](https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/getting-started/authentication.md): Authenticate requests with an Effective API key.
- [Use with an agent](https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/getting-started/using-with-agents.md): Discover the API contract and make a first call from an AI agent.
- [Get current user](https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/api-reference/users/get-current-user.md): Verify your credentials and retrieve the authenticated user and tenant. Identifiers are opaque strings. Name and email may be null.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](/openapi.json)


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