New user? Start here

2 October 2026 (PDT) · for new users of the AI Foundry ET-SoC-1 lab · the lab dashboard

Three steps. Steps 1 and 2 are commands you paste into a terminal on your own computer: they create your own account on a lab machine and start Claude there, as you. Step 3 is one line you give that Claude.

Your computer

Only a terminal: you paste the ssh commands of steps 1 and 2. No agent runs here.

The lab machine, as you

Claude runs here, in your own account, in a tmux session called claude. All the work happens here. Root is used once, in step 1, only to create your account.

Before you start: join the lab's Tailscale network (ask Roman, the lab lead, in #community-lab on the AI Foundry Discord). Each ssh below may print a login.tailscale.com link: open it in your browser, approve it, and the command goes on.

Lowercase letters, digits, - and _, starting with a letter. It fills the commands below.

aifoundry2's card is out of service. The dashboard shows which cards are free now.

  1. On your computer

    1. Create your account

    This logs in to the lab machine as the shared root, creates your own account (no password, no sudo), and logs out. You never use root again.

    
    
    It ends with "created …". If it says your username already exists: go on if the account is yours,
    otherwise choose another username.
    
  
    2. 
  
  2. 
    On your computer
    
    2. Start Claude on the lab machine
    
    
    This logs in as you, installs Claude Code in your account, fetches the lab's brief, starts Claude in a tmux
    session, and attaches your terminal to it. The first time, Claude asks you to sign in: open the link it shows,
    sign in, and paste the code back into the terminal; then trust the folder.
    
    
    
  
    3. 
  
  3. 
    In Claude, on the lab machine
    
    3. Give Claude the brief
    
    
    Paste this line. Claude reads the brief, picks a free card on this machine, runs a first test, and asks you
    before it touches a card.
    
    
    
  
    4. 






Later


To come back, on your computer: . To leave Claude running: Ctrl-b, then d. If you see
a shell prompt instead of Claude, type claude. To use another machine, run steps 1 and 2 again with it
chosen above.



What Claude reads: the brief ()




More: the lab dashboard ·
the ET-SoC-1 reports ·
the repository (docs/lab-start/START.md
is the brief).