Setting up your account
Right after you sign up, ATTRIBUT walks you through a short onboarding wizard at /onboarding. It asks which AI tools you use, where your code lives, and what your hourly rate is, then ends on a screen with a command to start sending data. It takes about a minute, and nothing you pick is permanent — every answer can be changed later.
What the wizard asks
The wizard opens by asking who the workspace is for. Choose Just me to continue — that's free, and it's what the rest of this article covers. From there it walks through four more steps. None of the selections are required — you can click Continue without picking anything on any step and fill it in later.
Step | What it asks | Choices |
Your focus (optional) | What you spend your AI usage on, so ATTRIBUT can group your outcomes | Shipping features, Fixing bugs, Refactoring, Infra & DevOps, Data & ML, Prototyping & R&D, Code review, Docs & content — pick as many as apply |
AI tools | Which AI coding tools are in your stack | Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and Cursor are available now; GitHub Copilot is marked "Soon" |
Source control | Where your code lives, so ATTRIBUT can read merged pull requests and commits to attribute value to shipped work | GitHub is available now; GitLab and Bitbucket are marked "Soon" |
Hourly rate | What your time is worth, used to price the hours your AI usage saves you | A dollar figure you type in or drag on a $0–$400/hr slider (in $5 steps); it defaults to $100/hr |
A connector is what actually sends a tool's usage data to ATTRIBUT — the tools and source-control step just tell the wizard what to expect, they don't connect anything themselves. Whatever you pick here, ATTRIBUT only ever reports token counts and metadata — it never reads your prompts or your code.
The finish screen
Completing the last step takes you to a "You're all set" screen. By the time you reach it, your onboarding is already recorded as complete on your account — leaving from here in any way won't lose your answers.
The finish screen always shows a terminal command, npx attribut connect, in a copyable field with a Copy button next to it. Running that command is how you connect your first AI tool and start ATTRIBUT capturing your usage.
If you selected GitHub as your source control on the previous step, the finish screen adds a "Finish connecting GitHub" card with a one-click Connect GitHub button, so you can wire up pull request and commit attribution right there instead of using the terminal. When that card is showing, it replaces the "Go to overview" button as the primary action.
If you didn't select GitHub, the finish screen instead shows a Go to overview button that takes you straight to your ATTRIBUT overview. Either way, there's also a Start over button if you want to redo the wizard from the beginning before leaving.
What to do next
Finishing the wizard only records your preferences — it doesn't connect anything by itself. To actually start seeing data in your overview, run the copied npx attribut connect command (or use the one-click GitHub button, if it was offered). For the full install and connection steps, see Connect your AI tools to ATTRIBUT in the Connectors section — it covers setting up the command-line tool and the GitHub connector in detail.
Your hourly rate is saved as soon as you finish the wizard and is used right away to price the time your AI usage saves you — you don't need to reconnect anything to change it later.