Quickstart

Sign in, ask your first question, open a project and build your first AI team in a few minutes.

This page takes you from nothing to a working AI team. Each step stands on its own, so stop wherever you have what you need.

1. Create an account#

Open tryperidot.io and choose Sign in / Register. You can use an email and password or Continue with Google. Free accounts work immediately. See Accounts and plans.

Note

Without signing in you get a small taste of chat only. The coding agent needs an account.

2. Ask your first question#

Open Chat, type a message and press Enter. The answer streams in as it is written. Use the model picker next to the input to choose a model and an effort level. See Using chat.

3. Install the desktop app#

The desktop app is called Peridot Code. Download it from the download page and install it. Sign in with the same account. See Install Peridot for every platform.

4. Open a project#

  1. In the sidebar, click + next to Projects.
  2. Choose the folder of your code project.
  3. Type what you want in the input, for example "Explain how routing works in this project".

Peridot reads and searches your files to answer. When it wants to edit a file or run a command, a card shows exactly what it is about to do and waits for Approve or Deny. See Tools and approvals.

5. Build your first AI team#

  1. Click Your AI team under New in the sidebar.
  2. Choose Add bot → Researcher, then Add bot → Reviewer.
  3. Select a bot in the graph to read or change its settings. Click Save after changes.
  4. Go back to the chat (click New or open a chat) and ask for something that fits the team:

Find out how login works in this project, and have it reviewed for security problems.

The lead agent hands the exploring to the Researcher and the review to the Reviewer, working in parallel. You will see Hand to Researcher: … cards in the chat. Open Your AI team again while they work to watch the graph: working bots glow and pulses travel along the lines.

Read on to learn how it works: Your AI team overview.

6. Optional: the terminal#

Prefer the keyboard? Download the CLI, run peridot in your project folder, type /login once and start working. See Peridot CLI.

Note

AI teams are a desktop feature. The CLI has the same coding agent, but without bots.

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