Beta FAQ
Straight answers about the beta. If something here contradicts your experience, the docs are wrong and we want to know.
What is the beta?
Section titled “What is the beta?”A free, seat-capped run of the hosted Tally service: the CLI, the local encrypted agent log, launches under the built-in harnesses, and structurally end-to-end encrypted sync over the Skytale relay. The point of the beta is to learn what people actually use, with real limits stated up front.
What is a seat?
Section titled “What is a seat?”One account. When you sign up, you occupy one seat. Everyone is capped equally: an invited coworker creates a full account of their own, which counts against the same cap like anyone else’s. There are no guest seats and no reserved invites.
How many seats are there, and how many agents per seat?
Section titled “How many seats are there, and how many agents per seat?”The beta policy is 100 seats, with up to 3 agents per seat on the free tier (enforced as a device cap when an agent connects). If demand outruns the cap, raising it is a decision we can take, but the published policy is 100 and 3.
What does the beta cost?
Section titled “What does the beta cost?”Nothing. Everything in the beta is free. A paid team tier is coming soon at ten dollars per user per month; it is announced, not purchasable yet. Beta members lock the beta price for life when it opens. Nothing in the beta requires payment, and the free tier stays free after the beta.
What happens when the seats run out?
Section titled “What happens when the seats run out?”Signup tells you the beta is full and adds your email to the waitlist automatically. If a coworker invites you after the beta fills, you are waitlisted like anyone else before you can join; existing accounts keep working and are never waitlisted.
What is not live yet?
Section titled “What is not live yet?”Honesty is house law here, so plainly:
- macOS and ARM builds. The installer serves a Linux x86_64 (glibc) binary; that is the only target built today. See the honesty ledger for the full target matrix.
- Durable cloud saves.
tally pushandtally pullmove ciphertext between your own devices over the relay, and the relay retains it hosted-side only as a bounded catch-up buffer (a 7-day purge window plus a per-channel entry cap). A durable hosted save tier is not live. Your local log is the source of truth. - Paid checkout. The paid team tier is announced (ten dollars per user per month, beta price locked for life for beta members) but cannot be purchased yet.
- Community adapter launches. Community adapters reach the session verbs (
tally session export/tally session materialize) but cannot launch harnesses. The launch verbs are built-ins only (claude-code, pi, codex) for the beta.
I installed something with cargo and tally does the wrong thing
Section titled “I installed something with cargo and tally does the wrong thing”There is an unrelated crate on crates.io (named tally-cli) whose binary is also named tally. If you have it installed through cargo, the tally on your PATH may not be this Tally. Check with:
which tallytally --help | head -1The first line of this project’s tally --help names it tally-coding-cli. The recommended install path (the one-line installer on the install page) sidesteps cargo entirely.
Where do I report problems?
Section titled “Where do I report problems?”- Bugs and rough edges: open an issue on the public source repository’s tracker on GitHub, and include relevant
tally doctoroutput;tally whoamianddoctornever print secrets. - Security issues: please do not open a public issue. See reporting vulnerabilities.
Where do I start?
Section titled “Where do I start?”The quickstart, then backup and recovery before you build anything you care about on your agent’s identity.