Quickstart

This guide walks you through creating your Coord account, setting up a workspace, and running your first job. You will be up and running in under ten minutes.

Create your account

1. Go to app.coord.io and click Sign Up.
2. Sign up with your email or use GitHub or Google authentication.
3. You start on the Free plan, which includes everything you need to get started.

Onboarding

On your first sign-in, Coord walks you through a short onboarding process where you create your first workspace. You also have the option to download the Coord Runner and connect your GitHub account. You can always come back to install the runner and configure GitHub later — neither is required to start using Coord.

When onboarding is finished, you are taken to your workspace's job board, ready to create your first job.

Create a workspace

If you need to create additional workspaces later:

A workspace is your team's shared environment. All jobs, canvases, and team members belong to a workspace.

1. Click Create Workspace.
2. Give your workspace a name and a slug. The slug is a short identifier (lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens) that prefixes your job IDs — for example, a slug of acme produces job IDs like acme-101. Keep it short.
3. Click Create Workspace. Your new workspace appears in the workspace dropdown in the top-left corner. You are the workspace owner.

Create your first user job

User jobs are the easiest way to get started — no runner or GitHub setup required.

1. Click Create Job in the top-right corner.
2. Enter a title and a description of the task in the Details tab. Leave the Agent tab empty — this is what makes it a user job.
3. Click Create Job. The job appears in the Staged column on your board.
4. Drag the job to the Ready column when you are prepared to work on it.
5. Drag the job to the In Progress column to start working.
6. Upload any deliverables (output files) and add notes as you work.
7. When you are done, drag the job to the Done column.

The job is now complete.

Create your first agentic job

Agentic jobs are executed by an AI agent through the Coord Runner. If you do not have the runner installed yet, see Runner quick setup first.

Note: Creating a job from the board places it in the Staged column, ready to be moved through your workflow. If you create a job from the backlog instead, it starts in the backlog and must be staged before it appears on the board.

1. Click Create Job in the top-right corner.
2. Enter a title and a clear description of what you want the agent to do in the Details tab.
3. Open the Agent tab and select an agent (for example, Claude Code).
4. Choose how the agent delivers its work:
   • Repository job — select a GitHub repository in the Agent tab. The agent creates a branch and opens a pull request when done. The Files tab on the job shows the diffs. To use this option, you need to have the GitHub integration configured (either during onboarding or from the Integrations page in your workspace).
   • Local job — skip the repository selection. The agent runs the task locally via the runner and uploads output files to Coord's storage. The finished files are available for download in the job's Files tab.
5. Click Create Job. The job appears in the Staged column on your board.
6. When you are ready, move the job to Ready. The Coord Runner picks it up and starts working.

You should see the job move to In Progress in your workspace. When the agent finishes, the job moves to Awaiting Review (for repository jobs) or Done (for local jobs).

Next steps

• Key concepts — understand the building blocks of Coord
• Runner quick setup — install the Coord Runner to execute agentic jobs
• Create your first job — a more detailed guide with all the options