# Quickstart > Four steps from signup to a box with your project on it and your coding agent signed in. You need a Mac, a Linux machine, or a Windows PC. URL: https://prized.dev/docs/quickstart ## 1. Sign up and create a box [#1-sign-up-and-create-a-box] Sign up at [prized.dev](https://prized.dev/sign-in). New workspaces get [$30 of free credit](https://prized.dev/docs/billing#free-credit), once: the tour has you pick a box size, Nano through Small, and starts it on that credit, no card needed. Each size says how long the credit runs it; a Small, the suggested start, runs about nine days around the clock. Want a bigger box from day one? Pick it on the same step and start its plan; it launches when the payment lands. The box boots while you install the CLI, bills by the hour against the credit while awake, and pauses itself after an hour idle so the credit lasts. When it does, boxes pause and the dashboard asks you to pick a plan; each plan is priced to run one size around the clock, and paused boxes start again from the dashboard. See [Billing](https://prized.dev/docs/billing). More boxes later come from the CLI (`prized box new`) or the [dashboard](https://prized.dev/docs/dashboard#new-box); see [Boxes](https://prized.dev/docs/boxes). ## 2. Install the CLI [#2-install-the-cli] The onboarding tour shows you a command with a single-use link in it, in the shape for the machine you are on. **Copy that one**: it installs the CLI, signs it in, and connects your box, so `prized ssh` works the moment it finishes. The plain commands are the same installer without the sign-in. macOS and Linux: ```bash curl -fsSL https://prized.dev/install.sh | sh ``` Windows, in PowerShell or Windows Terminal: ```powershell irm https://prized.dev/install.ps1 | iex ``` This installs `prized`, its background daemon, and a managed copy of Mutagen, which powers sync; the CLI then [updates itself](https://prized.dev/docs/cli#updates) from signed releases. It works on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (x86\_64 and arm64), and Windows 10 1809 or later (x64 and arm64); a few commands are [not on Windows yet](https://prized.dev/docs/cli#windows), and [`prized mount`](https://prized.dev/docs/mount) is macOS-only. * **macOS and Linux** install into `/usr/local/bin` when that is writable, otherwise `~/.local/bin`, and add that directory to your shell's startup file; `--no-modify-path` (or `PRIZED_NO_MODIFY_PATH=1`) prints the `export` line instead. * **Windows** installs into `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Prized\bin`, adds it to your user `PATH`, and needs no administrator rights; `PRIZED_VERSION`, `PRIZED_CHANNEL`, `PRIZED_INSTALL_DIR`, and `PRIZED_NO_MODIFY_PATH=1` are its knobs. WSL is Linux: use the `curl` line inside it. * **Verification.** The installer never installs a download it cannot vouch for. It checks the release signature with [minisign](https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/) when that is installed; otherwise it checks the release's checksum file against a digest served with the script itself, which Prized verified against the signature before serving. Pinning a release yourself (`--version`, or `PRIZED_VERSION` on Windows) needs minisign. * **Telemetry.** Once signed in, the CLI reports command usage, never arguments or file contents; [turn it off here](https://prized.dev/docs/cli#usage-telemetry). ## 3. Log in, only if the installer did not [#3-log-in-only-if-the-installer-did-not] If you used the tour's command, the installer already signed you in and connected your box (its output has `✓ signed in as you@…` and `✓ fig connected` lines): **skip to step 4**. ```bash prized login ``` Your browser opens the dashboard to mint a CLI token; paste it back. The CLI stores it in `~/.config/prized` (`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Prized` on Windows), sets up your SSH identity, and connects your box when your account has exactly one; with several, or none yet, `prized setup` connects one. > An install link is single-use and lasts 15 minutes; running that command again reports it as expired, which is expected. Upgrade with `prized update`, not the install link. ## 4. Set up [#4-set-up] ```bash prized setup # asks: auto or manual prized setup auto # everything, no questions ``` One command for the rest, safe to re-run, run on your machine in the folder you want on the box. Setup checks the box connection and repairs what its health check finds (a stopped daemon, a missing SSH `Include`, a box agent behind your CLI), stopping only on what it could not fix. Then one question: **auto** brings everything below without asking again (the one exception: a folder with no `.git` or manifest gets a yes or no before it syncs); **manual** asks a yes or no card per step. The report ends with the `prized ssh` command that connects. The optional parts: * **Project.** Run setup in the folder you want on the box and it syncs that folder: without a question in auto mode when the folder holds a `.git` directory or a manifest (`package.json`, `go.mod`, `pyproject.toml`, and the like), after one yes or no otherwise. If nothing was synced, the report's last line says so and gives the command. `prized setup myproject` creates `~/code/myproject` on the box, mirrored to `~/Prized/myproject` on your machine. Pass a path (`prized setup ~/src/myproject`) and one yes or no asks whether to sync it in place; `--copy-once`, `--copy`, and `--clone` answer from the command line. `prized sync` lists what is synced. See [Sync](https://prized.dev/docs/sync#add-a-project). * **Environment.** Setup scans your machine read-only and asks a few yes or no questions: your shell, the same Python and Node, the CLIs on your PATH, your Docker images, the Postgres you run locally. Installs and secrets default to yes; data defaults to no. Skipped on Windows for now. See [Bring your environment](https://prized.dev/docs/environment). * **Agents.** The coding agents found on your machine (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor; `--agent chatgpt` for the ChatGPT app) sign in on the box after one card, over the SSH tunnel; gh and your git identity go along on their own. See [Credentials](https://prized.dev/docs/credentials). * **Session.** With one runnable agent picked, setup starts it in a detached tmux session and prints the command that reattaches to it — your terminal stays where it is. `--attach` opens the session here instead; `--no-start` skips it. If setup finds no coding agent on your machine, it prints how to start Claude Code and sign in on the box. You can instead install and sign in to Claude Code locally, then re-run `prized setup` to hand that sign-in over. > Copying out of Claude Code: select the text and press **c**. Through `prized ssh` it lands on your clipboard, Apple Terminal included ([Copy out](https://prized.dev/docs/sessions#copy-out)). Then connect any time: ```bash prized ssh # a persistent tmux session on the box prized status # box vitals, sync state, mirrored ports, daemon health ``` ## Or let an agent do it [#or-let-an-agent-do-it] Steps 2 through 4 are one paste into your coding agent: the prompt is on [Agent setup](https://prized.dev/docs/agent-setup).