Getting started

Six steps, about ten minutes

This assumes you are using the Claude desktop app. It has Claude Code built in, which is what ekadant plugs into.

You need two things

A Claude subscription. Ekadant runs on your own plan; we never bill you for usage.
Node.js 20 or newer. Claude does not include it. Get it from nodejs.org if node --version says anything under v20.

Get the Claude desktop app

Download it from claude.com, sign in, and open the Code tab. Already using it? Skip to step 2.

Buy ekadant

An annual licence: £149 for the year, paid in full in advance, which saves 17%. Or 12 monthly instalments of £14.99. Prices are before tax. Press Buy and Install and you go to our store to pay. For now you ask for an invoice there.

The pricing box: the price, what the licence includes, and the Buy and Install button.

If the checkout doesn't appear, it's almost always an ad blocker. Ad blockers block payment providers by name.

Download your copy

The moment the payment goes through, a page opens with your download link. Paying by invoice? We’ll email your download link once your invoice is paid. Press it. A file lands in your Downloads folder. That is your copy of ekadant, with your licence already inside it.

The page that opens after payment: a Download ekadant button, then four numbered steps — Settings, Plugins, Add, Upload plugin, and then say ekadant install.

Keep this link

It does not expire. It is how you install on a new machine later, and how you get updates. Bookmark it or email it to yourself.

Lost it? The email we sent when you bought has it too. Or you can have the link emailed to you.

Add it to Claude

This all happens inside the Claude desktop app. Three clicks, and the last one is a file picker.

Open Settings, and find Plugins in the left sidebar — it is under the Customize heading, below Skills and Connectors.
Press Add at the top right, and choose Upload plugin. Not “Add marketplace”, and not “Browse plugins” — those are for plugins you have not already got.
Pick the file from your Downloads folder.

Claude's settings, with Plugins selected under Customize in the left sidebar and the Add menu open at the top right, showing Upload plugin highlighted above Create a plugin and Create with Claude.

That's all. Claude unpacks it and keeps it — it stays installed on this computer until you remove it.

If the upload is refused, the file was probably unzipped first by your browser. Upload the original .zip, not a folder.

Say one thing

Restart Claude so it picks up the plugin, then type this into the chat box:

ekadant start

That is the whole of the setup. It checks what it needs, tells you if anything is missing and exactly how to fix it, offers you a backup, and opens your dashboard. Answer its questions and you are done.

The console on a first run, with no products yet, showing the two ways to start one.

The dashboard is where you work from after this. It runs on your own machine — nothing on that screen has been near us.

You can say ekadant start again at any time. It changes nothing that is already set up.

Start a product

Tell it what you want built, in your own words:

ekadant bring idea

Already have a repository you want it to work in? Open that folder in Claude first, then say ekadant bring repo. Nothing is moved and nothing is overwritten.

It appears in the dashboard straight away. From here the engine runs, and the dashboard shows the short list of things only you can decide.

The console with work in it: a count of what is waiting, a question to answer, and a decision about where the product should run.

The products tab, listing each product with its stage, where it runs, how much is done, and what is holding it up.

If something goes wrong

It says Node.js is missing or too old: Install the LTS build from nodejs.org and run the command again. Nothing was written, so there is nothing to undo.
Claude does not know ekadant start: Restart it. Plugins load at startup.
Nothing happens, and you are at claude.ai/code: That is Claude Code on the web. It runs on Anthropic's servers and cannot see your files, so there is nowhere for ekadant to install. Use the desktop app.
It says this copy has no licence: The copy came from somewhere other than your own download link. Download yours again and upload that one.
It says the seat is on another machine: One licence, one machine at a time. Say ekadant start again — it will spot this and offer to bring the seat back here.
You have changed your mind: You can get a full refund of a licence year within 30 days of its start. You don't have to say why, and it works even after you've downloaded it. You do it yourself from inside the app — profile, then refund. The refund policy.

Still stuck? hello@polyglyphanalytica.com. A real person reads it.

Not using the desktop app? The upload screen in step 4 is part of the desktop app. In the terminal, VS Code or JetBrains, use the install command your download page also gives you — it does the same thing without the app. Claude Code on the web can do neither: it runs on Anthropic's servers rather than yours, so it cannot see your files.

Your phone. The console prints a link that works from anywhere and a six-character code. Open the link, type the code, and both screens show a six-digit number. If they match, approve it on the machine. If they differ, do not.

Keep it as an app. The console offers this itself, and the button knows which browser you are on. Chrome and Edge install from the address bar. On an iPhone or iPad, Safari installs from the Share sheet — tap Share, then “Add to Home Screen”. Safari on a Mac uses File → Add to Dock. Firefox cannot install web apps at all; pin the tab instead.

Prefer to place it yourself? It is the same file either way. Unzip it and put the ekadant folder into ~/.claude/skills/, and Claude picks it up next time it starts.

Ready?

Buy and Install — £149 a year, or 12 monthly instalments of £14.99