How do I get my first receipt?

Your first receipt is about ten minutes away, and none of those minutes involve creating an account.

Install the Crux Daemon. It is one binary, free, and runs locally on CPU. There is no GPU requirement, no cloud dependency and no sign-up; the store it creates lives on your own disk. The install page has the current commands for your platform.

Open the operator console at localhost:14800. It will be quiet at first: an empty canvas board, an empty relation graph, no sessions. That emptiness is the baseline you are about to change.

Connect an agent over MCP. Point your agent framework or coding assistant at the MCP server the daemon exposes and it gains more than 100 tools for memory, retrieval, sessions and work tracking. The connection binds to a passport as it opens; from that moment, every call the agent makes carries its identity.

Make a mutation. Have the agent store a fact, open a session, or record a decision. That first write mints your first CROWN receipt: signed with Ed25519, chained onto the append-only spine of the store, attributed to the passport that made it.

Now verify it, because that is the habit the whole product is built on. Run corecruxctl verify-store and watch the chain check pass. From here on, everything your agents do through the daemon lands on the same record, and the record is yours to check.