01 · Getting started

From checkout to your first agent session.

You are buying one Linux workstation in the cloud, yours alone, with the four agent CLIs already installed. Here is exactly what happens between paying and typing claude into a terminal.

What you actually get

One machine. Not a container on a shared box, not a sandbox that resets, not a web IDE with a terminal bolted on. Your plan buys a dedicated virtual machine with its own persistent disk, running a full Linux userland where you have sudo.

You reach it through a browser at your own hostname. Inside that browser window is the HolyCode workspace app: a file explorer, an editor, and as many terminal sessions as you want. The terminals are real PTYs on the real machine — there is no simulation layer between you and the box.

An "agent" here is just a CLI you run in one of those terminals. Your terminal session list is your agent list. See Connecting your AI agents.

The five steps

  1. You check out Pick a tier and pay through Stripe. Monthly, no annual option, no free trial — the product is paid from day one. We sell worldwide, in US dollars. You agree to the Terms of Service by creating an account and subscribing.
  2. We collect two details Which region you want the machine in (the default is Chicago), and the subdomain you'd like, which becomes your workstation's address. If we don't already have them from checkout, we email and ask.
  3. A human builds your machine This is the concierge part, and it is deliberate. Rather than a signup form spitting out a container, someone provisions your VM, sizes it to your tier, attaches the volume, issues the TLS certificate, and runs a verification checklist before anything is handed over. We promise delivery within 24 hours of your payment settling and us having those two details. We aim for a lot faster than that.
  4. You get the welcome email It contains your workstation URL, your sign-in credentials (delivered securely, never in plain email body text), a note on how to authenticate each agent CLI, and your support contact.
  5. You open it and start a session Sign in, click Start a session, and you have a shell. Type the name of the agent you want. First run walks you through that CLI's own sign-in.
If we miss the 24 hours, you get a full refund. That's not goodwill, it's in the Refund Policy. If we're running late you'll hear from us before the deadline rather than after it, and you can take the refund or keep waiting — your call.

Your first minute inside

you@holycode — session 1
# the four agents are already on the box
you@holycode:~$ claude
# first run signs you in with your own Claude plan or API key

you@holycode:~$ cd ~/workspace && mkdir my-project
# projects are just folders. make as many as you like.

There is nothing to install and no project limit. A "project" is a directory on your volume — create them with mkdir. Disk is one shared quota across everything you keep, so a big monorepo and forty small repos both just spend from the same number.

Sleeping and waking

Your workstation suspends when it's idle and wakes when you come back. A warm resume takes about a second, with your processes and memory intact — the session you left running is the session you return to.

The honest caveat. After a long idle stretch the platform sometimes falls back from suspend to a full stop. That wake is a cold boot — think tens of seconds, not one second — and running processes don't survive it, though everything on disk does. It's uncommon, and it's the same trade every suspend-based platform makes. What survives what is spelled out in Security basics.

What isn't automated yet

Being straight about the beta:

Next

Get your agents signed in — that's the part that makes the machine worth having.

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