Signing in
Claude Code keeps its own sign-in. Deventry never reads or stores your credentials: it only notices when Claude Code needs you to sign in, and runs Claude Code’s own sign-in for you. Signing in from Deventry signs in Claude Code in your terminal too, and the other way round.
Signing in
At launch, if Claude Code isn’t signed in, Deventry shows Sign in to Claude instead of the tabs.
- Choose Sign in. Deventry opens your browser at Claude’s sign-in page and shows Finish signing in in your browser.
- Sign in there. When the browser finishes, Deventry notices and shows your account.
- Your tabs start. A tab that couldn’t start earlier is started again on its session.
Messages you sent while signed out aren’t lost. Deventry keeps them, with their images, and delivers them in order once you’re signed in.
When the browser can’t finish
While Deventry waits you can:
- Open browser again, if the browser didn’t open or you closed the tab.
- Enter a code instead, if the browser is on another device or something blocks the page from reaching Deventry. The page shows a code. Paste all of it into the field (Paste the code from the browser) and choose Submit code.
- Cancel, which ends the sign-in.
Another kind of account
More options offers other ways to sign in:
- Sign in with an Anthropic Console account (API usage billing), for an account billed for API usage.
- Sign in with SSO, for single sign-on.
- Sign in with a Claude subscription instead, while one of the others is under way.
If your organization’s settings limit the kind of account that may sign in, Claude Code refuses the others. Use the kind it allows.
Signed in somewhere else
If you signed in from a terminal, choose I’ve already signed in. Deventry asks Claude Code again. If Claude Code still says you’re not signed in, Deventry says so.
Without an account
Try the demo opens Deventry on made-up projects, with a stand-in for Claude, in a window of its own: see Trying the demo.
In the middle of a session
If Claude Code loses its sign-in while Deventry is running, a banner runs across the top of every tab: Claude Code needs you to sign in. The tabs stay open. Sign in on the banner opens the same screen as a window over the main one, which you can close. If Deventry isn’t in front, you also get one notification, whatever the number of tabs.
Your account, its plan and Sign out… are in the header’s account menu: see Your Claude sign-in. Settings → Claude Code has Sign in and Sign out… too.
When it goes wrong
A sign-in that fails shows Claude Code’s own message and Try again, which repeats the same kind of sign-in. Troubleshooting: signing in lists the causes.