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name: get-started
description: Explain what box by Simular does and help the user connect it and try a first task. Use when the user first installs box or asks what box can do.
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# Get started with box

box is the user's own cloud Linux computer: a desktop with Chrome, a shell and desktop apps. You drive it with the box tools, so tasks that need a real computer run there instead of on the user's machine.

1. Explain this in two or three sentences.
2. If the box tools ask for sign-in, tell the user to sign in once with their Simular account (Google or GitHub) when the connection asks. After that it just works. A sleeping box wakes on the first call, which can take a few seconds.
3. Mention that they can watch the box live and take over at any time at https://box.simular.ai/box.
4. Offer three things to try:
   - "Use box to search Google for Simular and summarize the top 3 results."
   - "In box, clone github.com/simular-ai/box-plugin and tell me what the cli folder does."
   - "Use box to write a packing list in the text editor, save it and take a screenshot."

When a step needs the user (a sign-in, a password, a 2FA code, a captcha or a payment), stop and ask them to do it on their box. Never ask for passwords in chat.