WAVE documentation

Guides, concepts, and reference for building on the open video layer — for people and agents.

Getting started

Introduction

What WAVE is and how the one API works for people and agents.

Quickstart

Get an API key and make your first WAVE call.

Concepts

Agent commerce

How autonomous agents discover, negotiate, and pay for media over x402 and MPP.

What WAVE speaks

The transports, protocols, and codecs behind the one API.

Reference

Compliance & trust

WAVE's documented compliance posture.

MCP server

Use WAVE from an MCP client (Claude, Cursor) — the people-facing guide to the WAVE MCP server.