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Creating an Account

An Ever Works account is what your Works, Agents, credits and settings hang off. You can create one with an email address and a password, or with a social provider your installation has configured.

Signing up is not always the first thing you do: the onboarding page lets a visitor generate a Work from a guest session first. This page covers the point where you turn that into a real account — or start with one.

Create an account with email and password​

Go to /register — on the hosted platform, https://app.ever.works/register. The form asks for four things:

FieldNotes
Full nameAt least 3 characters. This becomes your display name.
Email addressMust be a valid address; it is also your sign-in identifier.
PasswordAt least 8 characters — the hint under the field says so.
Confirm passwordMust match Password exactly, or the form refuses to submit.

Then tick I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and choose Create account. The checkbox is required: without it the form shows "Please accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to continue" and nothing is submitted.

Beyond the 8-character minimum shown in the form, a password must also contain at least one lowercase letter and at least one number or special character, and it cannot begin with a dot or a newline. If it does not, the form tells you which rule failed instead of creating the account.

If the email already has an account, you are told the address is already registered — use Sign in or Forgot password? instead.

What the terms checkbox actually records​

Ticking the box does not just unlock the button. The signup page fetches the legal documents you must accept before it renders, in your locale, and shows you that exact text. When you submit, the same documents are sent back and recorded against your new account:

  • the document id and its version,
  • the SHA-256 digest of the published document source,
  • the locale the text was displayed in.

The digest is what makes the record meaningful: it pins the acceptance to the precise wording that was on screen, so the text you agreed to can be reproduced exactly later. The server re-checks every field against its published corpus before writing anything — a claim that points at text that was never published is rejected rather than stored.

One consequence is worth knowing: if the required documents cannot be loaded, the checkbox and the Create account button are both disabled and registration is blocked. That is deliberate. There would be nothing truthful to record, so the form refuses rather than creating an account with an empty consent record.

Acceptance is recorded once per document version, so a double-submitted form does not produce two records that disagree about the time.

Sign up or sign in with a social provider​

Under the divider Or sign up with, the page offers the providers your installation has configured. Ever Works supports four:

  • GitHub
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

The list is resolved from the API at page load, so an installation that has configured only some of them shows only those, and one that has configured none shows no social section at all. The same buttons appear on the sign-in page under Or continue with — for a social provider, signing up and signing in are the same action.

note

Connecting GitHub as a sign-in provider is not the same thing as connecting GitHub as your Git storage. The setup wizard asks for that separately, and you can change it later under Settings → Git Providers.

Signing in​

Go to /login, enter your email address and password, and choose Sign in. Wrong details give one undifferentiated "Invalid email or password" — the page never tells you whether the address exists.

The sign-in page has two tabs:

TabWhat it does
PasswordEmail and password.
Email me a linkSends a one-time sign-in link. No password required.

The social buttons sit below either tab. The tab strip itself only appears when your installation has magic links enabled — otherwise the page is just the password form.

Choose Email me a link, enter your email address, and choose Send magic link. The page then says Check your inbox and offers Send another link if the first one does not arrive.

A magic link can only be used once and stays valid for 15 minutes. Opening it takes you to a short "Signing you in" page that redeems the token and drops you at the dashboard. If the link has expired or has already been used, you get "This link can't be used" with a Send a new link action rather than a silent failure.

The confirmation is phrased conditionally — if an account exists for that address, a sign-in link was sent — and reads the same either way, so the page cannot be used to discover which addresses are registered.

If you forgot your password​

On the sign-in page, choose Forgot password? (or go to /forgot-password directly). Enter your email address and choose Send Reset Link. You will see "Check your email", along with a reminder to look in your spam folder.

The email links to /reset-password with a token in the URL. There you set a new password twice. The new password has to satisfy the same rules as a password chosen at signup — at least 8 characters, at least one lowercase letter, at least one number or special character, and not starting with a dot — and the two fields have to match.

Once it succeeds you are sent back to sign-in with a "Password reset successful" banner. If you open /reset-password without a valid token, the page says the link is invalid and offers Request New Reset Link instead of an unusable form.

What happens right after you sign up​

Creating an account signs you in immediately — there is no "now go and log in" step — and takes you straight to the dashboard as a new user. Two things follow:

  1. A verification email is sent to your address. Until you confirm it, Settings → Profile shows a banner with a button to resend the message.
  2. The setup wizard opens. It is the 10-step walkthrough that picks your AI, Git storage, database, deployment and more. Every step can be skipped, and every choice can be changed later in Settings — see Onboarding & Setup Wizard.