Signing in

The web app, at app.flowviant.com, is where you sign in as yourself. There’s no password: sign in with Google, with GitHub, or with a one-time code emailed to your address. The same screen handles a first visit and a returning one — there’s no separate sign-up step.

Once you’re signed in, that session is you, on whatever project you’re a member of. It’s what puts your name on a comment, and what an invite link resolves to once you accept it.

flowviant login is a different thing

flowviant login, run from a repo on your own machine, doesn’t sign a person in — it connects that machine to a project. Run it and it opens a code for you to approve in the app; approving it hands the machine a credential for that project, which is what lets it run agents and report back. It has nothing to do with your own account: a machine can be connected while you’re signed out in your browser, and being signed in doesn’t connect any machine on its own.

A directory can only serve one project — flowviant login refuses to bind a second project to a repo that’s already connected. To point a repo at a different project, disconnect the machine first (see Removing a machine).

See Make a PC the machine for the rest of connecting a computer, and Projects and people for what your account gives you access to.