---
title: "Reducto Developers"
description: "Build document workflows with the Reducto API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server."
canonical: "https://reducto.ai/developers"
---

# Reducto Developers

Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams. Use the API to parse, extract, split, classify, and edit documents, or build and deploy document pipelines in Reducto Studio.

## Quick start

1. Sign up at https://studio.reducto.ai/ and create an API key in **API Keys**.
2. Set `REDUCTO_API_KEY` in your environment.
3. Send requests to `https://platform.reducto.ai` with `Authorization: Bearer $REDUCTO_API_KEY`.

```bash
curl https://platform.reducto.ai/jobs?limit=1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REDUCTO_API_KEY"
```

Read the complete API reference at https://docs.reducto.ai and the OpenAPI specification at https://reducto.ai/openapi.json. SDKs are available for Python and Node.js, and the CLI and hosted MCP server help agents process documents in their reasoning loop.

## Capabilities

- Parse PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, slides, and other supported files into structured, citation-ready output.
- Extract typed JSON using a JSON Schema.
- Split documents into named sections.
- Classify documents against a plain-language taxonomy.
- Edit PDF and DOCX files with natural-language instructions.

See the [Agent skill](https://reducto.ai/SKILL.md) for setup details and response handling.