Getting started
Create an account, find your way around, and set up your first project — everything before the everyday loop.
New to Machine? Start here. This page gets you from "no account" to "ready to run your first session." For the loop you'll repeat every day, continue to the Quickstart.
Create your account
Sign up
Go to the Machine app and sign up. You can use single sign-on if your organization has it configured, or an email and password. Verify your email if prompted, and you'll land in the dashboard.
Personal vs. team
Your sign-up creates a personal account — your own workspace. If you're here to work with a team, you'll either create a team account or accept an invitation to join one. You can belong to several accounts and switch between them from the account picker.
Find your way around
A few things to know up front:
- Accounts are workspaces. Each account owns its own projects, members, billing, and settings. The account picker (top of the dashboard) switches between the ones you belong to.
- Projects live inside an account. A project is one git repository plus its configuration — it's where you run sessions and ship work.
- Sessions run inside a project. Each is one agent run in a disposable sandbox. This is where the actual work happens.
So the hierarchy is simply: account → project → session.
Create your first project
From your projects list, create a project. You can:
- Start fresh — Machine sets up a new managed repository for you.
- Import an existing repo — connect GitHub and pick a repository to work in.
See Working with projects for the details of each path.
What's next
You're set up. From here:
- Run your first session — give an agent a task and watch it work.
- Review the result — merge what you want to keep.
- Customize the project — connect tools, add secrets, invite teammates.
Or read the Quickstart for the whole loop end to end.