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title: Getting started
description: The five-minute path from creating an account to your first MCP tool call.
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# Getting started

Five steps, in order:

1. [Create an account](/getting-started/create-an-account) — sign up at
   `dash.shebang.pro`.
2. [Projects](/getting-started/projects) — every account starts with a
   default project; make another if you need one.
3. [Your first key](/getting-started/your-first-key) — mint a master key,
   or a scoped key for a sub-agent.
4. [Install the MCP server](/getting-started/install-the-mcp) — add
   shebang to Claude Code, or any other stdio MCP harness.
5. [Device login](/getting-started/device-flow-login) — what actually
   happens when the CLI's `login` command asks you to approve it in a
   browser.

If you'd rather skip local installation entirely, see
[hosted MCP](/getting-started/hosted-mcp-oauth) — call
`api.shebang.pro/mcp` directly over HTTPS, with OAuth instead of a saved
key.

Once you're set up, [concepts](/concepts) covers the vocabulary —
projects, keys, public ids, access modes — that the rest of these docs
assume you already know. Every step above works the same whether you're
clicking around the dashboard by hand or scripting it against the API or
the MCP server — the same account, the same key, and the same project
model apply either way.

## Next

[Create an account](/getting-started/create-an-account).