First-Day Checklist

A practical checklist for configuring a new Starfire AI account, choosing a workspace, creating a project, and understanding billing and security.

First-day checklist

Use this checklist when setting up Starfire AI for the first time or onboarding a new team member.

Account

• Sign in to the intended Starfire account.
• Complete email verification when required.
• Confirm profile and timezone information.
• Review active sessions and devices after signing in from a shared or unfamiliar machine.

Workspace

• Start one simple Chat to confirm model access.
• Review the available model list for the current plan/context.
• Create a Project for any work that will span multiple conversations.
• Put durable project instructions in the Project instead of repeating them in every prompt.

Files and Knowledge

• Attach temporary files directly to a conversation.
• Add reusable reference material to Knowledge instead of repeatedly uploading it.
• Confirm indexed sources reach a retrieval-ready state before relying on them.

FORGE

If FORGE is available:

• Start with a small build to learn the build lifecycle.
• Review validation output instead of judging success only from generated code.
• Download important artifacts before their retention period expires.

Agents and automation

• Create agents only for behavior you expect to reuse.
• Keep agent permissions narrow.
• Test an agent on ambiguous and failure cases before giving it workflow responsibilities.

Organization setup

For team use:

• Confirm the correct organization is active.
• Invite members with the smallest appropriate role.
• Verify billing ownership and seat state.
• Prefer organization-owned applications and service accounts for production integrations.

Billing and usage

• Confirm whether work is billed to your personal account or an organization.
• Review credit allowance and any configured hard limits.
• Avoid creating a second subscription when a billing state appears delayed; troubleshoot the existing billing chain first.

Security

• Keep API keys and other secrets out of prompts.
• Revoke sessions or credentials you no longer need.
• Use separate developer credentials for software workloads.

Quickstart

Follow the guided path from sign-in to your first useful Starfire workflow.