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Cheats is a place to keep what you look up, the work in progress, and the records that are only yours. Snippets, encrypted notes, a board, a time log, and the money sections all live on one account. A connected assistant can read and write the same things, inside the limits of the key you give it.
You can browse public cheats without an account. Saving anything, and every other section, needs a sign-in.
The sections
The left rail is three groups. Hiding a section on Personalisation only takes it off the rail. Its address still opens it.
| Section | What it keeps | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Cheats | Snippets and other reference text, public or private | Cheats |
| Vault | Notes encrypted in the browser before they are sent | Vault |
| Notes | Your own writing and checklists | Notes |
| Brain | Briefs, rules, and memories for a connected assistant | Brain |
| Projects | Kanban boards and their cards | Projects |
| Diffs | GitHub changes, scored | Diffs |
| Agents | The models a card's estimate is priced against | Agents |
| Hours | Time logged against a rate | Hours |
| Pennies | Your own investment orders | Pennies |
| Dues | Money other people owe you | Dues |
| Dashboard | One card for each section you have left on the rail | This page |
Hours is its own list of projects. It is separate from the Projects boards, so sharing a board never hands someone your rates.
Create an account
- Open Cheats and choose Sign in.
- Use email and a password, or continue with Google, Facebook, GitHub, or Microsoft.
- New email accounts ask for your name. The first sign-in also asks for the country on your profile, which later decides tax years and the day/night theme clock.
- By continuing you accept the Terms of Service. The Privacy Policy explains what is stored.
Forgot password is on the email sign-in form. An email and password account has to set up two-factor authentication before it can use Cheats: a code is sent to your phone, and you can remember that device for 30 days. Signing in with Google, Facebook, GitHub, or Microsoft does not ask for a code. The phone numbers are under User → Security.
A visitor who is only looking around can browse without an account. That session cannot save.
A first session
- Search from the box at the top of Cheats. It matches titles, bodies, and the URLs on a cheat's links.
- Save a cheat of your own when you want it back. Public is the default. Mark it private when it should stay on your account.
- If you will connect an assistant, open Brain and write one rule first. Briefs and rules are handed over when the client connects.
Help, at the top right, replays the short tour and opens this documentation.
Make it yours
Personalisation has three settings, and all of them follow the account onto every device you sign in on.
- Navigation. Tick the sections that appear in the rail, and choose the home page. The home page is where the site opens, and where the Cheats title takes you.
- Theme. Pick the colours. You can use the seasonal theme automatically while it is unlocked, and you can use a second theme in the evening and at night. Day and night follow the time zone of the country on your profile.
- Font. Keep the site monospace, or set menus, titles and text in a sans-serif font. Code, keys and figures stay monospace either way, so columns of amounts still line up.
The account
User holds the rest of the account.
| On User | What it does |
|---|---|
| Profile | Name, country, and the base currency Pennies can convert into |
| Billing | The current plan, with a link through to manage it |
| Security | Password, sign-in methods, and two-factor authentication |
| Offline | Pro only. Keeps the sections you open available without a connection. Off until you turn it on, and it is per device |
| Sign-in methods | Add or remove Google, Facebook, GitHub, Microsoft, or a password |
| Linked accounts | Another account you own. Each of you can see the other's private cheats. Either side can unlink |
| API access | API keys and MCP connections. Narrow a key, or revoke it, here |
| Merge account | Fold a second sign-in into this one |
| Termination | Delete the account |
Caution. Offline copies of Pennies and Dues sit unencrypted on that device. Vault stays ciphertext, the same as on the server. Signing out deletes the device copy. Sharing, invites, reminders, billing, and account settings need a connection and are never queued.
Linked accounts are a request. The other person gets an email, and nothing is shared until they accept. The two accounts stay separate apart from private cheats and types.
Plans, in short
Free can create as many cheats as you want. Vault, Notes, Brain, and Pennies are capped at 5 live items each. Projects is one board and 5 cards. Hours matches that shape. Diffs follows one repository. Dues is read-only. The API is read-only, 20 requests a day.
Pro removes those caps, adds project invites, writing to Dues, offline mode, and read and write API access at 500 requests a day. The full table is on Plans.
Connect something
- Connect an assistant is the short version: a key, the sections it may reach, and the daily limit.
- MCP clients is the client-by-client setup, including Claude and Cursor.
- API reference is the endpoint list, for a script or a client.
- The footer also links the VS Code extension and the Chrome extension. They use the same keys and the same daily limit.