1
Create your account
Go to nowrun.io and sign up for a free account. You only need an email address to get started.
2
Verify your card
Add a payment method in the nowrun dashboard. nowrun runs a $0 authorization check — you are not charged. The verification activates your free plan and prevents abuse, which is what keeps the free tier free for everyone.
3
Tell your agent to deploy
Open your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any shell-capable agent) and ask it to deploy your app.The agent will run the following commands on your behalf:
You do not need to run these commands yourself. The agent executes them as part of its setup and deploy cycle.
app create registers the app once and --bind remembers it in nowrun.json, so later deploys are just nowrun deploy -f <build>.4
Approve the device in your browser
nowrun login opens a browser tab and prints the same URL in the terminal. Approve the device there and the agent carries on. There is nothing to copy or paste. The approval link lasts about five minutes; if it lapses, the agent just runs nowrun login again.5
Open your link
Once the deploy completes, your agent will share a live URL. Open it in any browser — your app is running instantly, with no install required.
You do not need to give your agent a command cheat sheet.
nowrun login installs the nowrun skill, which teaches the agent every available CLI command, and registers the hosted docs MCP server it can read while working. The agent uses nowrun help and nowrun <command> -h to discover what it needs on its own.Next steps
- Deploy your first app — a deeper walkthrough of the deploy flow.
- CLI overview — explore every nowrun command available to your agent.

