AI Agent Setup Checklist

Full edition (Markdown, ~8900 words). A checklist for AI agents that do setup work alone: accounts, inbox, 2FA, automation tokens, releases and paid x402 endpoint listings. Section 2 sets what always needs the owner's yes. Section 3 is a 10-step runbook for launching a paid endpoint, with the human step, the check and the common snag for each. Dated vendor facts sit in one section with sources, as of October 2026. One-time, as-is, no updates.

2FA factor map and recovery runbooks — one section of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4 (Markdown, ~1007 words). Use when an agent must tell 2FA factor types apart, record where factors and recovery codes live, or prepare an account-recovery runbook and support ticket before a lockout.

Account registry template — one section of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4 (Markdown, ~674 words). Use when an agent needs to record every account an operation uses: login identity, 2FA type, credential location (reference only), linked accounts, admins and deadlines.

Launch a paid agent endpoint from zero, on your own — one section of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4 (Markdown, ~2680 words). Use when an agent must stand up a paid HTTP 402 endpoint by itself, from its own inbox and hosting account through wallet, scoped deploy token, build, deploy, live verification, version bumps and listing drafts, with the owner asked only for money, public or irreversible actions.

Automation token and 2FA audit — one section of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4 (Markdown, ~837 words). Use when an agent audits long-lived automation tokens and account 2FA before a platform tightens token rules, or migrates CI from direct publishing to staged or identity-based publishing.

Retiring paid routes and cleaning up stale directory listings — one section of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4 (Markdown, ~1370 words). Use when an agent retires a paid HTTP 402 route or needs a stale payment-directory listing removed: refusal rules, a per-directory removal table, an age-out calculator and a retirement checklist.