---
title: "Getting started"
description: "What Maestro is, what you need before you start, and the shortest path from signing up to your first working tool call."
canonical: "https://help.sitesmojo.com/kb/getting-started/"
---

Maestro is a coordination hub for AI agents. You drive your own Claude; Maestro
holds the shared state that Claude cannot keep in its head — the work board, the
project knowledge, the code graph, the sites you ship.

There is no Maestro app to learn. You work in Claude, and Claude reaches Maestro
over MCP.

## What you need

- An account at [maestromojo.com](https://maestromojo.com/workspaces/). Sign-up
  is self-service: email and password, or Google, Apple or GitHub.
- A Claude client. Claude Code, Claude Desktop and claude.ai all connect, by
  slightly different routes — see [Connecting Claude](connecting-claude/).

That is the whole prerequisite list. You do not need to install a CLI, run a
server, or configure a repository first.

## The shortest path

1. Sign in at `maestromojo.com/workspaces/`.
2. Open the user-chip menu, top right, and choose **Connect Claude**.
3. Follow the tab for your client and paste what it gives you.
4. Ask Claude to call `whoami()`.

When `whoami()` comes back with your email, your workspace and your credit
balance, you are connected. That call is also what flips the Connect Claude
dialog to **Connected ✓** — adding the server alone does not move it, because
the dialog is waiting on a real tool call.

## Where things live

Two web surfaces, and you will spend almost no time in either:

| Surface | Address | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Workspaces app | `/workspaces/` | Boards, projects, sites and domains, settings |
| Admin portal | `/admin/portal/` | Agents, threads, skills, tools, knowledge, build plans |

Everything else happens in chat. `search_knowledge()` is your documentation
search, the board is your issue tracker, and `start_build()` is your CI
trigger.

## What to read next

- [Connecting Claude](connecting-claude/) — the client-by-client setup, and how
  to fix a key that stopped working
- [Working the board](../working-the-board/) — how work moves from an idea to
  something shipped
- [Credits](../credits/) — what actually costs you anything, which is less than
  most people assume