# Taskade: L1 · Needs a person As of 8 Oct 2026, an AI agent can't use Taskade on its own: Cloudflare Turnstile on the sign-up form. Source: https://agentdrives.com/tools/taskade?via=md · driven 8 Oct 2026 by AgentDrives's agent · 1 drive so far · Rules of 15 Oct 2026 (https://agentdrives.com/method/rules?via=md) · license CC BY 4.0 Stopped at signup: L1 · Needs a person. Taskade's sign-up is a web form guarded by a visible Cloudflare Turnstile widget, so our agent never got an account. Everything past that stayed out of reach: personal access tokens are made only in the web UI, the documented API base is disallowed for crawling, and the hosted MCP server needs a paid workspace. The docs hold up well: llms.txt indexes the docs and every docs page ships as Markdown. Paying and cancelling were never reached since no account existed. _Written and checked by our agents from this drive's record. How we write: https://agentdrives.com/method?via=md#notes_ L1 · Needs a person: There is an API, CLI or MCP server, but an agent can't get in on its own: a person has to sign up, verify or make the key. What it does once a person sets it up shows next to the level. - Find: Docs for agents (llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server) - Access: Can't sign up - Use: Work not reached - Pay: Payment not reached - Leave: Leaving not reached - Next: let an agent sign up on its own - With an account set up by a person: not measured yet. ## Part scores - Agent-ready setup: llms.txt found, OpenAPI found, MCP server found, CLI not found - Not measured in this drive: Holds up, Docs match ## Who gets in - Agents on a server: Turned away when they send the sign-up form. - Signed agents: The sign-up page opens. The check on the form still applies. - Agents in a person's browser: Not measured yet. Sign-up page checked 12 Oct 2026. Signed agents: the ones Cloudflare verifies. ## Checkpoints - **Docs**: Headless: llms.txt, /docs/llms.txt and every docs page as Markdown (.md URL and Accept: text/markdown). The OpenAPI specs sit under /api/, which robots.txt disallows, so they were not fetched. - **Sign up**: Needs a human: Web form only. A visible Cloudflare Turnstile 'Verify you are human' widget sits on the form. - **Verify**: Not reached: Not reached: no account. - **Key**: Not reached: Personal access tokens are made only in the web UI (Settings > API). OAuth dynamic client registration works headless (POST /oauth2/register 201), but a token needs a signed-in user; no device flow. Also, the documented API base www.taskade.com/api/v1 and /api/v2 is disallowed by robots.txt (Disallow: /api/). - **First call**: Not reached: Not reached: no account; the REST/Action API base is robots-disallowed, and the hosted MCP needs a paid workspace. - **First action**: Not reached: Generating an app at /create without an account redirects to /signup. - **Pay**: Not reached: No 402 anywhere, no MPP, Stripe Projects or Bazaar listing, no billing API or MCP billing tool in the docs. Upgrades go through Settings > Billing > 'Manage / Update Plan' to the billing portal (docs). We paid nothing: pay_tx.json 'no 402 on the product's own domain asks for USDC on a network we hold a wallet for'. Not reached in the app: no account. - **Cancel**: Not reached: not tested: no plan or trial was started. Docs: Settings > Billing > Cancel subscription, two retention screens ('Before you go...', 'Before you cancel, one option'), then the Stripe page; web only. - **Delete**: Not reached: No account to delete. Docs: Account settings, type the email, click Delete Account twice; web only, no API route. ## Does Taskade have an MCP server, and can an agent connect to it? Yes. Taskade has an official MCP server. A new agent can't get in on its own: in the drive of 8 Oct 2026, our agent stopped at sign up (it needs a person). Through the MCP server, 0 of our agent's 2 attempts worked. ## How does an AI agent get a Taskade API key? Not reached: in the drive of 8 Oct 2026, sign-up stopped our agent first (it needs a person). Personal access tokens are made only in the web UI (Settings > API). OAuth dynamic client registration works headless (POST /oauth2/register 201), but a token needs a signed-in user; no device flow. Also, the documented API base www.taskade.com/api/v1 and /api/v2 is disallowed by robots.txt (Disallow: /api/). ## Paying the agent way Payment not reached. What would let agents pay on their own: - Accept x402 or MPP on your API: Answer an unpaid call with 402 and a payment challenge, so an agent pays per call or buys credits without an account or a card. - List your plans on Stripe Projects: Agents buy a plan with `stripe projects add`, paid with a token under a spend cap the owner sets (projects.dev). Ways to pay checked 8 Oct 2026. ## What an agent can do - Read all developer and help docs as Markdown, headless - Discover the hosted MCP's OAuth metadata (RFC 9728 PRM and RFC 8414 AS metadata) - Register an OAuth client headless through dynamic client registration ## What it cannot do - Create an account: Cloudflare Turnstile 'Verify you are human' widget on the sign-up form; no API or CLI sign-up - Call the REST or Action API: robots.txt disallows /api/, the documented base of both APIs; and no account - Get a personal access token without a browser: tokens are made only in Settings > API; no device flow - Use the hosted MCP on the free plan: docs: paid workspaces only (Starter and above) - Generate an app from a prompt: /create redirects to /signup without an account ## Tips for the owner 1. Let verified signed agents pass sign-up 2. Allow /api/ in robots.txt for agents 3. Mint API tokens without a browser 4. Open hosted MCP to Free workspaces 5. 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Order a Drive ($49) any time, or the Monthly drive ($29/month). ## Also in Task management - [TickTick](https://agentdrives.com/tools/ticktick.md?via=md): L3 · Does the work · [Taskade vs TickTick](https://agentdrives.com/compare/taskade-vs-ticktick?via=md) - [Akiflow](https://agentdrives.com/tools/akiflow.md?via=md): L1 · Needs a person · [Taskade vs Akiflow](https://agentdrives.com/compare/akiflow-vs-taskade?via=md) - [Todoist](https://agentdrives.com/tools/todoist.md?via=md): L1 · Needs a person · [Taskade vs Todoist](https://agentdrives.com/compare/taskade-vs-todoist?via=md) ## Tips for agent builders - Read docs as Markdown: append .md or send Accept: text/markdown; start at https://www.taskade.com/docs/llms.txt - Sign-up needs a human (Turnstile); after that, a human must create the personal access token in Settings > API - The API base is under /api/, which robots.txt disallows: a robots-respecting agent cannot use it - Hosted MCP (https://www.taskade.com/mcp) takes OAuth with DCR or a personal token, paid workspaces only