Your setup
Seven steps, about ten minutes. Keep to the order and nothing can go wrong.
There is an email from me in your inbox. Click the button in it so I know the address really is yours. After that I send you the kit. If nothing has arrived, have a quick look in your spam folder, the first email from a new sender ends up there quite often.
This is the program everything runs in. Download it, install it and sign in with your Claude account. It is available for Mac and Windows.
Download Claude DesktopClaude Desktop has two modes. The normal one answers questions, Claude Code is also allowed to work on your computer. That is exactly what we need. Switch to Claude Code at the top of the window.
Git is a small helper program that Claude uses to download the templates for you. You never have to use it yourself, it just has to be there. On a Mac it is often already included.
By default, Claude Code asks for permission before every single step. During a setup that means dozens of questions. Press Shift and Tab, until the bottom of the window says that changes are accepted automatically. This only applies to this session and your working folder, and Claude still asks about anything sensitive.
Create a new folder in your documents, for example claude. It should be empty, so not a folder that already contains other things of yours. Then open Claude Code in exactly this folder.
Your kit email contains a short text. Copy it there and paste it into Claude Code. From then on the setup runs by itself, it only asks you a few things about your work along the way.
If you would rather watch than read: here the complete setup runs through once.
Describe to it in your own words what you see. It knows its own environment and gets past most stumbling blocks by itself.
Tell me which of the seven steps you are stuck on, then I will reply to you: support@startandconnect.com
Choose your operating system. Both routes take a few minutes, and you never need to touch Git again afterwards.
git --versionxcode-select --installgit --versionYou will never operate Git yourself. Claude Code uses it in the background to load the templates for you.