use-agent-wallet

Overview

The Circle CLI (@circle-fin/cli, command circle) provides a programmatic agent wallet — a non-custodial USDC wallet designed for AI agents to authenticate, hold balances, and pay for paid x402 services on Circle's marketplace. This skill is the bootstrap surface for that wallet: install check, terms acceptance, login, wallet creation, and status inspection. After bootstrap completes, downstream operations (paying for services, funding, spending policy) hand off to dedicated skills.

For an overview of the Circle CLI's full capability set — bridging, smart contract execution, transaction inspection, and more — see the use-circle-cli master skill. This skill is the narrower bootstrap/identity surface.

This skill is for the CLI agent-wallet flow.

Prerequisites / Setup

Step 1 — Verify the CLI is installed

which circle || command -v circle
circle --version

If not installed: