Get an account

An account holds your sites, your domains, your tokens and your plan.

Open https://app.heyclave.com/signup and give your email address. Clave sends a link to it, and the link makes the account. An agent can also make it for you: when it asks for access to an address with no account, the grant screen offers to make one. Either way what you end up with is a sign-in address.

When many people sign up at once, your address waits in line. Clave emails you the link when there is room, usually within a day.

Try it without an account

You can start before you have an account, with no email to wait for.

• In a chat client, add the connector. The sign-in page it opens has Try without an account.
• An agent with a shell calls POST /v1/auth/try. See Authentication.

An email is optional. Clave does not check it and sends it no mail yet.

A try has small limits:

• One site, and drafts only. Nothing goes live, and there is no domain.
• 6 hours and 5 builds to make changes. After that, the agent can read the site and nothing more. At the end of the 6 hours, the draft goes offline.
• 5 sets of design sketches and 50 added files.
• Forms keep each message, and send no mail.
• No collaborators, no site transfers and no payments.

To keep the work, verify an email. Ask your agent to do it: it calls verify_email, and you get a link. The email and the agent show the same code, so you can see the email is for your session. Open the link and press Keep my site. Then you have an ordinary account on the Trial plan, with the site and its source, and the agent can publish it. If the draft went offline, the next build makes it again, at a new address.

If another Clave account already uses that email, no mail arrives. Sign in to that account instead, or verify another address.

Sign in

There is no password. You give your email address and Clave sends a link to it. The link signs you in.

A passkey is the one thing built on top of that link. You register a passkey from inside a session you are already in, so your address stays the root of trust. If you remove your last passkey, you are not locked out: the emailed link still works.

What the browser app is for

The app is the owner's half of the platform. It shows what you own, who may act for you, and the decisions that destroy or restore a thing. It never edits a site: the agent owns what a site says.

Four moments need a person in a browser:

• Sign in, at https://app.heyclave.com.
• Give an agent access, on the grant screen.
• Approve a draft, on the draft's approval page.
• Pay for the account, through the billing portal.

What to do next

Read Get a token to call the API, or Connect a chat client to drive Clave from a chat.