Your AI assistant can set this up.

An assistant that can read URLs can explain BDK and help you prepare. To create or manage projects, it also needs MCP support or HTTP requests. You approve the connection in your browser. Otherwise, it guides you through the portal. Your keys never leave the portal, and only you pay.

1 · Point it at the guide

Paste the prompt below into your AI tool. The guide teaches it everything public about BDK — honestly, including what it can't do.

2 · Approve the connection

Your assistant shows you a link like thebdk.com/connect?code=XXXX-XXXX. You sign in and press Approve — it can't press the button for you. Your assistant may renew its connection automatically. BDK support can help end access if you ask.

3 · It sets things up, you decide

Project, free preview on your own phone, name, icon, colors — all staged as replaceable defaults you review. What stays yours alone: paying (a Stripe checkout page you open and complete yourself), your Apple/Firebase/OneSignal keys, and the store submission — BDK hands you signed builds; you test them and submit from your own accounts.

Get connected

Any AI tool (paste this prompt)

URL-reading assistants can help you prepare. Project actions need MCP or HTTP requests.

Help me turn my web app into iPhone and Android apps with BDK Native. Fetch https://thebdk.com/agent/skill.md and follow it.

MCP-capable tools

Add BDK as an MCP server and the tools appear natively; sign-in runs through your browser the first time.

https://mcp.thebdk.com/mcp

e.g. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http bdk-native https://mcp.thebdk.com/mcp

What a connected assistant can never do

· Pay for you, or invent a payment link — the only link it can hand you is the Stripe checkout page BDK's own checkout tool returns for your project, and you complete it
· Submit to the stores for you — you test the signed builds and submit from your own Apple and Google accounts
· See or handle your keys — Apple, Firebase, OneSignal credentials are pasted by you, on the portal
· Approve its own connection — that button is yours
· Promise store approval — Apple and Google decide, not BDK

The full machine-readable rules your assistant follows: https://thebdk.com/agent/skill.md · Terms: thebdk.com/terms