A computer your whole team can work on — and Aura can make it for you

• Your team can share a computer to work on, and only one person ever has to set it up. An admin names a place, picks a size, and Aura makes the machine — or points at a box you already own. Everyone the admin lets in signs in and starts working there: no keys to copy, nothing to install, no wizard.
• The two kinds of machine behave the same, deliberately. Anything you can do on a box you built yourself you can do on one Aura made, and the other way round. There is one honest difference: Aura can only put a machine to sleep if it is allowed to start and stop it, so a box you own and run yourself stays on until you say otherwise.
• Sharing a machine no longer means sharing an account. Each person gets their own login on the box, their own tools, their own agent credentials and their own share of the machine, so one person’s build can’t starve everyone else’s. A commit made on a shared machine says who made it, instead of being signed by whoever set the box up.
• Push as yourself. Aura can mint a short-lived credential just for you, borrow the key already on your laptop for the length of the connection, or use a token you’ve stored — and it always says which one it is using, so a credential everyone shares is labelled as one. GitLab, Bitbucket and your own server work too, not only GitHub.
• Your project’s setup gets built once, not once per person. A project declares what it needs and every place becomes that, so the second person to arrive starts from what the first one built. Need one tool just for yourself? Install it for yourself, without root. And a machine will tell you what it actually has against what the project asked for, so “works over there, not on mine” is a list rather than a mystery.
• Two at once, side by side, in one window. Open a second project — or a second machine — without losing the first: tabs, open files and terminals all stay where you left them on both, and either one can pop out into its own window. Entering a machine used to empty everything else out of the app.
• Pick which team you’re acting as. In more than one? Switch without signing out, and each shows its own projects and machines with your personal work alongside. An admin turns cloud on one person at a time, only members reach the team’s machines, and removing someone removes their reach. You can see what you spent, separately from your teammates.
• Aura can read the web, and says what each answer cost. Ask it to check a page or the docs for something you’re integrating and it will go and read it. On your own API key, every answer shows what that answer cost and the meter shows the total since you added the key.