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Overview

Short pages on what Vando does, how to set it up, and where its limits are. Written for people, and for the AI agents they paste things into.

Start here

I have passwords

Put them in the Vando app on your phone, make your recovery kit, and let your phone fill your logins. About 10 minutes.

I use Claude Code

Give Claude a secret for a time, never in the chat, and make risky commands wait for your phone. 5 to 8 minutes the first time.

The pages

Get started

What Vando is

Things and locks, the four levels, vaults and folders, your devices, and approvals.

Your passwords in Vando

Sign up, the recovery kit, bringing your passwords, autofill.

Claude Code in 5 to 8 minutes

Connect, set up the project, run a command with a secret.

Guides

Connect Claude Code

The paste-this block, every step by hand, and what each phone screen means.

Give one secret for a time

vando add and vando run --secret, the time choices, ending early.

A whole project

vando init, .vando.toml, environments, references, vando clean.

Bring passwords from another app

The formats, the check before anything is saved, deleting the export after.

Your recovery kit

What it is, why you need one, and how it differs from a password.

A new phone

Another phone approves it, or your kit after 48 hours. Fort Knox things too.

Your laptop and Chrome

Pairing, fill asks, saving logins, the trust window.

Concepts

How approvals work

The ask card, what you’ll need, expired asks, and what Deny does.

The four levels

Who each level keeps out, where new things start, changing a level.

Vaults and folders

Places, tags, moving things, the Trash.

Devices: who holds, who asks

Your phones hold the keys; everything else asks.

Access windows and grants

The three kinds of access that last a while, and what ends them.

Reference and trust

Glossary

Every word the app uses, one line each.

Security in plain words

What protects you, and what we can’t promise.

What exists, what’s coming

What works today and what is still being built.

Where things stand

Vando is in early access. The phone app runs on Android first, from a test build: it isn’t in Google Play or the App Store yet. The Chrome extension is a test build you load by hand. The vando command for Claude Code works, but it isn’t published as a package yet, so it runs from a copy of the Vando code. Each page says plainly what works now and what is coming.

For AI agents

If you are an AI agent helping someone set up Vando, read the setup steps as markdown. There is also an llms.txt that lists these pages, and every page has a plain markdown version: add .md to its address.

Last verified

What Vando is

Your phone holds the keys. Anything that wants to use one, your laptop or an AI, asks your phone first. You say yes or no.

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