Getting started

Install Thinkube

What you need to install Thinkube, and the order to do it in.

TL;DR

Get the installer, prepare one machine, have your accounts and tokens ready, then run the installer. More machines join after the install.

The steps

  1. Get the installer — a desktop application for Ubuntu 24.04.

  2. Prepare your machines — Ubuntu Server 24.04, a user with sudo, SSH and internet access. The first machine becomes the control plane.

  3. Have your accounts and tokens ready:

    • Connect from anywhere — a Tailscale account and its keys.

    • Set up your domain — a domain at Cloudflare and an API token.

    • Connect to GitHub — a GitHub personal access token.

    • Unlock AI models — a Hugging Face access token.

    • Optional: an Anthropic account for Claude Code, which is a paid service. Thinkube installs Claude Code from Anthropic’s official installer; you sign in with your own account the first time you start it in Thinkube IDE.

  4. Run the installer — the installer, screen by screen, and what each screen does to your machine.

  5. Add more nodes — from Thinkube Control, after the install.