Six steps, about ten minutes

Download it from claude.com, sign in, and open the Code tab. Already using it? Skip to step 2.

An annual licence: £49.99 for the year, paid in full in advance, which saves 16%. Or 12 monthly instalments of £4.99. Prices are before tax. Press Buy and Install. Our store opens. For now you ask for an invoice there.

If the checkout doesn't appear, it's almost always an ad blocker. Ad blockers block payment providers by name.

The moment the payment goes through, a page opens with your download link. Paying by invoice? We’ll email your download link once your invoice is paid. Press it. A file lands in your Downloads folder. That is your copy of Eklavya, with your licence already inside it. Leave it as it is; do not unzip it.

This all happens inside the Claude desktop app. Three clicks, and the last one is a file picker.

1. Open Settings, and find Plugins in the left sidebar. It is under the Customize heading, below Skills and Connectors.
2. Press Add at the top right, and choose Upload plugin. Not “Add marketplace”, and not “Browse plugins”. Those are for plugins you have not already got.
3. Pick the file from your Downloads folder.

That's all. Claude unpacks it and keeps it. It stays installed on this computer until you remove it.

If the upload is refused, the file was probably unzipped first by your browser. Upload the original .zip, not a folder.

Restart Claude so it picks up the plugin, then type this into the chat box:

eklavya start

That's the last thing you need to type into Claude. It checks what it needs, tells you if anything is missing and exactly how to fix it, and opens your dashboard in your browser. From here on, Claude only has to be installed and signed in.

If something was missing, saying eklavya start again once it is fixed changes nothing that is already set up.

It runs on your own computer, and everything it shows you is in a folder on that computer. It walks you through the rest, one screen at a time:

1. The terms: what Eklavya will and will not do, in five sentences.
2. This machine. The search runs here, so it has to stay on and awake at the hour you choose. You pick the hour (seven in the morning is the usual answer, so a catch is waiting before the day starts) and let the dashboard register itself to start when you log in.
3. Whether you are looking now or preparing for a move later.
4. The resumes you already have. Drop them in as they are; nothing is rewritten.
5. Eight questions about what you are after: the work, the pay you need, where, the hours, what you will not accept.
6. Farah (Agent, Career development) reads your answers and your resumes and writes your record. Press the button, or leave it to start on its own.
7. Joel (Agent, Career development) works out where those roles are advertised near you. Automatic.
8. The sources it proposes, each with a reason. Approve or turn down each one, log in to the ones that need it in your usual browser, and say so.

Then it says Ready. The dashboard runs the day's search itself at the hour you chose, or now if you press the button. After the first run it shows what it looked at and what it chose, or that the day was quiet. When a catch is ready, a notice appears on your desktop and stays there until you open it.

A laptop with the lid shut does not run anything. Leave the computer on and awake at the hour, or set it to wake for it.