Can an agent create a deployment with Heroku Platform?
Who does each step
Whether the agent handles it alone or a person has to step in.
- 01
Discover
MachineThe vendor's machine-readable docs show the agent where and how to call this job.
- 02
Access
Workaround · setupYou give the agent a key or token.
- 03
Onboard
Workaround · setupYou sign up or register a client for the agent.
- 04
Pay
Workaround · setupYou add a payment card at the vendor's checkout.
- 05
Confirm
MachineThe response or specification defines errors the agent can distinguish from success.
- 06
Sustain
Workaround · setupYou replace or revoke the agent's access when it needs to change.
- Access: handing over a key or token.
- Onboard: signing up or registering a client for the agent.
- Pay: adding a payment card.
- Sustain: renewing, replacing or revoking its access.
To remove these handoffs: support OAuth client registration so the agent can register its own client and ask for consent; provide an agent registration route, such as auth.md, a sign-up API or OAuth client registration; support payment in the request, such as x402 or MPP, so setup does not require a person to add a card; provide key management or OAuth refresh and revocation so the agent can maintain its own access.
Agent surfaces
The probe
Each request it sent and what came back; the descriptors it read, counted, with what they named.
Discover30 descriptor reads3 facts
- Found
- For agentsheroku.com/llms.txtFor agentsdevcenter.heroku.com/llms.txtFor agentsapi.heroku.com
- From
- heroku.com/llms.txt · devcenter.heroku.com/llms.txt · devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference
- This endpoint
- api.heroku.com is named by a document written for agents
Job requestPOST api.heroku.com/apps/example-app/builds40160 ms
- Request
- POST https://api.heroku.com/apps/example-app/builds
- Response
- 401 · application/json · 229 bytes
- Body
- sha256:caef36bf595bc7ec1c486584b13705d158ab647b68cbf62224bc24f0b8107013
- Exchange
- sha256:2d7648db96cce300400721b3e31b49822958b056cac8f2d52e5f6ffd69e24b83
Resource metadataGET api.heroku.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/apps/example-app/builds40057 ms
- Request
- GET https://api.heroku.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/apps/example-app/builds
- Response
- 400 · application/json · 159 bytes
- Body
- sha256:17bb5365f1c019631af252678a17993a99956b07e627ae87a3d6b711eb4af36e
- Exchange
- sha256:800e601911fd6a80411688c40990e50c8ea50497d64645e336b8edc156a05b70
Resource metadataGET api.heroku.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource40040 ms
- Request
- GET https://api.heroku.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
- Response
- 400 · application/json · 159 bytes
- Body
- sha256:17bb5365f1c019631af252678a17993a99956b07e627ae87a3d6b711eb4af36e
- Exchange
- sha256:16a990cc76eb8877b89329332c517d5a859d556257f26bd15087966cbcdfb2a1
Declared pageGET signup.heroku.com200117 ms
- Request
- GET https://signup.heroku.com
- Response
- 200 · text/html · 283846 bytes
- Body
- sha256:d4e059b4e14bd480a73d9993718ac344cdc6138721000ba6a0dd2c998153e05a
- Exchange
- sha256:1582b803a30fcf203252cca0ec8ba02f5d185cfa03b104d2c557c75c473f775b
Declared pageGET dashboard.heroku.com/account20062 ms
- Request
- GET https://dashboard.heroku.com/account
- Response
- 200 · text/html · 271800 bytes
- Body
- sha256:d872032c3c188d0492006935a9c3cab516c73ff75309ac890b66d425bbf187ab
- Exchange
- sha256:e8e048b7bab8344c5532b26761f3b92783e1c68ae15fde5c88f4af0a0b50342c
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- Projection
- sha256:59325d2b78ee31e073c59c3ef05783b97c776a7c74a1d914c8a81d184a9c4d5d
- Policy
- kind-2026-10-12.2 · sha256:b612172aad277b54461de84e006815126f2df566563954b02f4432a39cad89ac
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