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Quickstart: AI visibility and spend

This quickstart enrols one machine with the Shield360 endpoint collector and shows where its AI usage appears. No SDK or code changes are needed.

Create an install key

In Shield360, open Visibility → Setup and create an install key. Copy it; it’s shown once.

Install on your machine
Terminal window
curl -fsSL https://app.shield360.ai/api/cli/install.sh | SHIELD360_INSTALL_KEY=<key> sh
Terminal window
$env:SHIELD360_INSTALL_KEY = "<key>"
iwr -useb https://app.shield360.ai/api/cli/install.ps1 | iex

This installs the shield360 CLI to ~/.shield360/bin, enrols the machine, starts background reporting and adds hooks for Claude Code, Cursor or Codex if they’re installed. It doesn’t need administrator rights. Self-hosting? Use your own Shield360 address instead of app.shield360.ai.

Send a first report

Background reporting runs hourly. To report right away:

Terminal window
shield360 collector run
shield360 collector status
See the results
  • Visibility → Fleet: your machine, marked active.
  • Visibility → Overview: tokens, models, tools and projects.
  • Costs → Analytics: the AI spend report, with subscriptions and without.
Record your subscriptions

Under Costs → Subscriptions, add the AI plans you pay for and assign seats. Plan usage without a seat shows up as shadow AI.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”
Roll out to the fleet

Push the collector with Jamf, Intune or any MDM.

 Collection policy

Turn on browsing, network observation or key fingerprints.