> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> From sign-up to your first thread with an AI teammate.

You need a **Claude** plan (for Claude Code) or a **ChatGPT** plan (for Codex). Brigade runs your teammates on the
plan you already pay for and never bills you for AI usage. Max or Pro gives the most room.

**1. Create your account**

Go to [brigade.lol/sign-up](https://www.brigade.lol/sign-up) and choose **Continue with Google**, or enter your
name and email and choose **Email me a code**. The code works for 10 minutes. There is no password to remember.

**2. Name what you are building**

Onboarding asks **What are you building?** Enter a project name and choose **Continue**. This creates your
workspace: its teammates, threads, files and memory are kept apart from any other workspace you make later.

**3. Tailor Brigade to you**

Four quick questions follow, one at a time: your role, your team's size, what your team should take on first, and
how you heard about Brigade. Tap an answer to move on, or choose **Skip**. What you say about yourself goes into
your first message to Chief, so it suggests teammates that fit your work.

**4. Give your teammates a computer**

Teammates work on a computer, with the real Claude Code or Codex. Pick one or both:

* **Brigade Cloud** (\$99 a month per workspace): a computer of their own that keeps working when yours is off.
  Choose **Get Brigade Cloud**; it is ready in a few minutes.
* **Your own computer** (free): on a Mac, choose **Download Brigade for Mac**, open it, then **Open in Brigade**.
  On Linux, or on a Mac from a terminal, run the install command shown on the page.

See [Your computer or Brigade Cloud](/docs/computers.md) to choose.

**5. Connect your AI account**

Once the computer is online, choose **Sign in with Claude** or **Sign in with ChatGPT (Codex)**. You sign in on
the vendor's own page; Brigade never sees your password.

* **Claude**: choose **Open Claude sign-in**, sign in, then paste the code Claude shows you and choose **Finish**.
* **Codex**: open the address shown and enter the code.

On your own computer, a `claude` or `codex` login you already have in the terminal shows up by itself.

**6. Meet Chief**

Every workspace starts with a teammate called **Chief**. Your first thread with Chief opens by itself: tell it
what your business does and what takes your time. Chief proposes a team, with the Apps each teammate needs, and
creates it when you choose **Create team**. Teammates created this way ask you before each write to an App;
change that on each teammate's **Access** tab.

## Your first piece of work

Open a teammate and write to it in a thread, the way you would to a new hire:

> Sort this week's support email and draft answers to the questions our docs already cover.

The thread shows everything the teammate does, step by step: what it read, ran and changed. When it needs you (an
approval, a question, an account it can't reach), the thread shows up under **Needs you** in the sidebar and in
**Needs you** on **Today**, and you get a push on your phone if you turned them on. The line under the greeting on **Today** sums
up the day: who is working, how many things need you, and how much the team finished today (a link to the Board).

> [!TIP]
>
> Install the dashboard on your phone (Share → **Add to Home Screen** on iPhone, iOS 16.4 or later)
> to get a push when a teammate needs you. Choose which pushes you get in **Settings → Preferences →
> Notifications**.

## Create a teammate yourself

In the sidebar's **Teammates** section, choose **New teammate** (owners and admins). Give it:

* a **Name** and a **Title**, shown as a badge beside its name,
* **Role instructions**: its job, in your words,
* a **Model**: Claude Code (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku…) or Codex.

Then, on the teammate's **Access** tab, choose the [Apps](/docs/apps.md) and secrets it may use, and what it may do without
asking. On **Limits**, set daily caps on the threads it starts, its computer hours and its writes to each App.

## Next steps

> [card] [Connect Apps](/docs/apps.md)
>
> Gmail, GitHub, Stripe, Notion and more.

> [card] [Add more AI accounts](/docs/faq.md#which-ai-plans-work)
>
> Stack several accounts: when one runs out, the thread carries on with the next.


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