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Getting Started
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Getting Started

Everything you need to get from first sign-up to your first useful challenge, prompt, or workspace loop.

Read time
1 min
Word count
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Sections
1
Read llms.txt
Typical setup
10-15 min

Account, profile, first route, and optional key setup.

Best first route
/challenges

Start with a real task before you optimize the rest of the account.

Account center
/profile

Profile, settings, billing, integrations, and API keys live here.

First skill track
/skills/prompt-engineering

A strong first public skill loop once your account is active.

Recommended path
Start with one real loop, not every feature at once.
The fastest way to understand Versalist is: create an account, complete your profile, open one challenge, and only then connect provider keys or CLI tooling if you need them. That keeps the setup grounded in a real use case instead of a checklist with no context.
Browse challenges

Create your account

Versalist supports both individual and enterprise entry paths. Choose the route that matches how you plan to use the product, then keep your callback destination attached so sign-in drops you into the right workflow instead of a generic landing page.

Fastest path
Continue with Google
Best for most individual users who want the shortest route into challenges, prompts, and workspace tools.
Starts in one click with OAuth
Works cleanly with existing callback URLs
Good default for browser-first usage
Open sign-up
Developer path
Continue with GitHub
Useful when your workflow is already repo-centric and you expect to move between challenges, code, and linked repositories.
Keeps auth aligned with repo-first work
Pairs naturally with challenge submissions
Helpful for public portfolio and project sharing
Open sign-up
Email path
Use a magic-link email flow
If you do not want a social provider, you can still start from the email entry path on sign-up.
Good for users who prefer mailbox-based auth
Still supports post-auth callback routing
Useful for low-friction individual onboarding
Use email sign-up
Team path
Request enterprise onboarding
The enterprise tab on sign-in and sign-up collects a work email so the team can route you into the right company workflow.
Designed for company and managed onboarding
Useful when a team or invite flow is involved
Keeps billing and workspace setup coordinated
Open enterprise sign-in

Complete your profile

Once you are authenticated, do the minimal profile setup that improves recommendations and makes the logged-in surfaces more useful. You do not need to fill every field before starting a challenge, but the account shell is much more coherent after these basics.

1
Open Profile
Set your display name, email, location, public link, and profile visibility basics.
Open /profile
2
Review Settings
Check authentication providers, notification preferences, and project visibility defaults.
Open /profile/settings
3
Connect integrations only if needed
Bring your own provider keys when you want Versalist to route inference against your own infrastructure.
Open /profile/integrations
4
Create a platform key later
Only create a Versalist API key when you are ready for CLI, MCP, or challenge automation flows.
Open /profile/api-keys

Assess your baseline

Versalist does not force a long onboarding wizard before you can do useful work. Instead, use the learning and progress routes to benchmark what you already know and decide which loop should come next.

Quick check
Quiz demo
A lightweight way to test whether you understand the basic product and AI workflow concepts.
Open quiz demo
Progress view
Dashboard and certificates
Use the progress routes to see where your challenge, quiz, and certificate work is accumulating.
Open progress dashboard
Guided path
Skill path
Open the skill path route when you want a more directed sequence instead of browsing challenges manually.
Open skill path
Skill records
My skills
Use the skill surfaces to inspect or create skill entries once you start building a stronger learning record.
Open my skills

Explore the main product surfaces

Most users only need four surfaces to begin: challenges for real tasks, prompt and tool surfaces for study, docs for reference, and workspace for organizing the work once it becomes repeatable.

Challenges
Browse real tasks, start challenge runs, study rubrics, and compare against leaderboards.
Open challenges
AI Tools
Compare model and tool options, then connect the ones you actually use in your workflow.
Open AI tools
Prompt Library
Study prompt structure and keep examples close to the projects, challenges, and evaluations they support.
Open prompt library
Workspace
Organize your tool stack, prompt work, and guided execution surfaces once your workflow starts repeating.
Open workspace

Free vs paid usage

The important distinction is not “can I look around?” versus “can I do anything useful?”. The product is designed so public browsing and early learning start immediately, while higher-volume or more advanced workflows sit behind account, billing, or BYOK setup.

CapabilityPublic / free entryPaid or advanced setup
DiscoveryBrowse public docs, skills, prompt examples, tool directory, and challenge listings.Use billing and credits once you want sustained or team-scale usage.
ExecutionStart with public routes, guided learning paths, and selected product surfaces.Unlock heavier logged-in workflows, billing-backed usage, and company operations.
IntegrationsYou can inspect docs and product flows without attaching provider credentials.Bring your own provider keys or platform API keys when you need automation or infra control.
Proof of workBuild an initial public record through challenges, prompts, and progress surfaces.Use billing, certificates, and expanded logged-in workflows when the work becomes more serious.

Recommended first week

If you want the shortest path to meaningful value, use this sequence. It keeps the account work proportional to what you are actually trying to learn or ship.

1
Day 1: create the account and set the profile shell
Handle sign-up, profile basics, and settings so the logged-in routes feel coherent.
Open profile
2
Day 1: browse one challenge and one prompt
Use the public challenge and prompt surfaces to understand the kind of work Versalist organizes.
Browse challenges
3
Day 2: inspect the docs and skill routes
Open docs, the prompt engineering skill page, and the quiz or progress routes to build context.
Open docs
4
Day 3+: add integrations only when necessary
Connect provider keys or create a platform API key after you know exactly which workflow needs them.
Open integrations
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