| title | Accounts & Sign-up |
|---|---|
| description | How account creation works: the free dashboard needs no account; Pro/API accounts are created via the Clerk sign-up flow in a browser. |
Account creation is an interactive browser flow, not an API:
- Open worldmonitor.app/pro and click Sign up (or use the dashboard's sign-in button). A Clerk modal opens inside the page — there is no standalone
/sign-upform page; that URL serves the app shell. - Register with email + password or an OAuth provider (Google, GitHub). Email registrations get a verification code; the modal walks through it.
- A free account by itself unlocks nothing extra on the dashboard — it is the identity that Pro/API subscriptions and API keys attach to.
- Upgrade to Pro or API from worldmonitor.app/pro — checkout runs on Dodo Payments; see Plans & Pricing.
- Create an API key from Dashboard → Settings → API Keys once subscribed to API Starter or API Business (
wm_+ 40 hex chars). The full value is shown only once; see Find or replace your license / API key for the exact steps and recovery instructions. - Connect an agent via OAuth instead of a key: MCP clients (Claude Desktop and others) use OAuth 2.1 + PKCE with dynamic client registration — no manual account dance; see auth.md for the self-bootstrapping discovery chain.
- You cannot complete browser sign-up on a user's behalf by fetching pages — the flow lives in a client-side Clerk modal. Direct users to worldmonitor.app/pro.
- To act as an agent with your own credentials, use the OAuth path in auth.md (anonymous dynamic client registration, then a human consents at authorization time).
- Pricing, plan gates, and quotas are machine-readable:
/pricing.mdandGET /api/product-catalog.