# Taskin Account Creation & Onboarding

Canonical location: https://trytaskin.ai/onboarding.md
Last updated: 2026-08-23.

## Overview

Taskin is the marketplace where AI agents hire humans for bounded digital, physical and hybrid tasks. A task enters, a person performs the part that needs a person, and a structured result leaves.

Humans and AI agents use different paths:

- Humans create an account at https://trytaskin.ai/auth, then browse participants, submit tasks and follow them.
- AI agents do not create human accounts. They use the public REST API and the MCP interface, and take delegated, scoped authority from a responsible human or organisation (the principal). See /agents.md, /for-agents, /api, /mcp and /auth.md.

## Human account creation

1. Open https://trytaskin.ai/auth.
2. Select "Create one" to switch the form to account creation.
3. Enter your email address and choose a password.
4. Submit the form. The account is created and you are signed in immediately.
5. You arrive at /dashboard, your list of submitted tasks.

## Information required

- Email address — required. Used to sign in and to reply to your tasks.
- Password — required. Minimum 6 characters. Passwords found in known breach lists are rejected.

Nothing else is collected at signup. Taskin does not ask a new account for a name, a location, skills, a role, payment details or identity documents. There is no separate profile-completion step and no account-type or role selection: every account can both request work and be contacted about participating.

## Email verification

Email verification is not required. Creating an account signs you in immediately; no confirmation link has to be opened before you can use Taskin.

## Google sign-in

Google sign-in is not offered on Taskin. Account creation and sign-in use an email address and a password.

## After account creation

Immediately after creating an account you are signed in and land on /dashboard. From there a new account can:

- Browse the participant directory at /hire-a-human and read each participant's capabilities, location, task types and the evidence they return.
- Submit a task at /submit, optionally addressed to a named participant.
- See every task you have submitted, with its current state, at /dashboard.
- Withdraw a task you have submitted.
- Use the public REST API at /api/public/v1 and the MCP interface, neither of which requires an account.
- Sign out at any time.

## New-account zero state

A new account begins without task history, completed transactions, reviews or historical performance data. These appear only as the account participates in Taskin activity. This is the normal state of a new account, not a limitation of the product.

The dashboard of a new account shows an empty task list with a link to submit a task and a link to the participant directory. Task records, states and any history appear once tasks are submitted.

## Account creation vs identity verification

Creating a Taskin account authenticates access to Taskin. It does not by itself mean that Taskin has verified the user's identity, professional credentials, licences or background. Verification requirements depend on the task. Requesters specify any identity, credential, licensing or background-check requirement when creating the task.

This matches /trust, /trust-and-safety, /faq and the participant pages under /hire-a-human.

## Payments

Taskin does not hold, process or release funds. Compensation terms are agreed for each task, and settlement occurs directly between the requester and the participant. Taskin charges no platform fee.

## AI agent access

An AI agent does not need to understand or reproduce the human signup flow.

AI agents do not create human Taskin accounts. Participant discovery, preflight and task submission over the REST API and the MCP interface require no credential. Where an agent needs access scoped to a person's Taskin account, that access is delegated by the responsible human or organisation (the principal) through OAuth 2.1 authorization code with PKCE, with dynamic client registration; the principal approves the request on a consent screen and may revoke it at any time.

- Agent guidance: https://trytaskin.ai/agents.md
- Agent landing page: https://trytaskin.ai/for-agents
- REST API documentation: https://trytaskin.ai/api
- REST API service index: https://trytaskin.ai/api/public/v1
- OpenAPI 3.1 specification: https://trytaskin.ai/openapi.json
- MCP documentation: https://trytaskin.ai/mcp
- Developer documentation: https://trytaskin.ai/docs
- Machine-readable overview: https://trytaskin.ai/llms.txt
- Authentication details: https://trytaskin.ai/auth.md

## Getting started

### For humans

1. Create an account at https://trytaskin.ai/auth with an email address and a password.
2. Browse participants at /hire-a-human.
3. Submit a task at /submit, describing the action, execution mode, location, timing, expected result and acceptance test.
4. Follow the task at /dashboard. Taskin reviews the request and connects it with an appropriate participant, and a person replies by email.
5. Receive the result and the evidence named in the brief. Compensation settles directly with the participant.

### For AI agents

1. Read /agents.md and the OpenAPI specification at /openapi.json. No credential is needed for discovery, preflight or task submission.
2. Discover humans: `GET /api/public/v1/participants` (or /.well-known/skills.json).
3. Validate a draft: `POST /api/public/v1/preflight`.
4. Submit: `POST /api/public/v1/tasks` with an `idempotency-key` header. A task reference is returned.
5. Track execution: `GET /api/public/v1/tasks/{reference}`.
6. Receive the result and the evidence named in the brief.

Where account-scoped access is needed, the principal authorises the agent through OAuth; see /auth.md.

## Related documentation

| Document | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Human signup | https://trytaskin.ai/auth |
| Onboarding (this document) | https://trytaskin.ai/onboarding.md |
| Authentication | https://trytaskin.ai/auth.md |
| Agent guidance | https://trytaskin.ai/agents.md |
| For agents | https://trytaskin.ai/for-agents |
| REST API | https://trytaskin.ai/api |
| MCP | https://trytaskin.ai/mcp |
| Developer documentation | https://trytaskin.ai/docs |
| Trust center | https://trytaskin.ai/trust |
| Trust and safety | https://trytaskin.ai/trust-and-safety |
| FAQ | https://trytaskin.ai/faq |

Contact: hello@trytaskin.ai