# Welcome to Elnora

Source: https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/get-started
Last modified: 2026-09-08T22:34:42-06:00

> The developer platform for Elnora — the REST API, the elnora CLI, the MCP server, and plugins. Built for developers and AI agents.

Elnora is an AI agent for automated preclinical lab work. This portal documents
the **developer surface**: integrate over the REST API, script with the CLI,
connect any AI tool over the MCP server, or drop in the plugins. Everything you
can do in the dashboard, you can do programmatically.

```bash
# Authenticate with your API key and make your first call.
curl https://platform.elnora.ai/api/v1/tasks \
  -H "X-API-Key: $ELNORA_API_KEY"
```

## Start here

  - [Quickstart](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/get-started/quickstart) — Create an account, get an API key, and make your first authenticated call.
  - [Authentication](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/get-started/authentication) — API keys (X-API-Key) and OAuth for interactive clients.
  - [Core concepts](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/get-started/concepts) — Organizations, tasks, files, the knowledge base, and search.

## Build with any surface

  - [REST API](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/api) — Every endpoint, with auth, parameters, and copy-paste curl examples.
  - [CLI](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/cli) — Scriptable access to the whole platform — generated from the CLI itself.
  - [MCP server](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/mcp) — Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP client to mcp.elnora.ai.
  - [Plugins](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/plugins) — Install Elnora in Claude Code and 30+ AI tools in two commands.

## Built for AI agents

The whole portal is machine-readable. Point your agent at
[llms.txt](https://docs.elnora.ai/llms.txt) for a map of the docs (or
[llms-full.txt](https://docs.elnora.ai/llms-full.txt) for the full text), or connect over
[MCP](https://docs.elnora.ai/docs/mcp) to call the platform directly.