CDE Quickstart

Install CDE

Download CDE for your platform from orgn.com/download:

• macOS — Apple Silicon (arm64)
• Windows — x64 (in-app updates on macOS and Windows)

After installation, launch CDE. The application name in your OS is CDE (data folder: .cde).

See Install for Linux, update channels, and requirements.

Sign in

On first launch, CDE shows the welcome screen and prompts Continue with id-orgn — the same SSO used by ORGN Studio, Gateway, and Scanner.

You're redirected to id.orgn.com to complete sign-in. Sign in with GitHub is available there, along with passkeys and other linked identity providers.

After sign-in, the project welcome appears with Open Project, Open Cloud Project, and Recent workspaces.

For git operations and cloud worktrees, you may also need the ORGN GitHub App installed on your repositories — see Troubleshooting — Connect GitHub.

Open a cloud worktree

Choose Open Cloud Project to pick a project and worktree from your team.

If your team has not imported a repository yet, do that in ORGN Studio first, then return to CDE with the same id-orgn session.

CDE provisions or wakes the sandbox, attaches over SSH, and loads the remote file tree. First attach typically takes 30–60 seconds.

See Cloud worktrees for the full sidebar workflow.

Use Origin Agent

Open the chat panel to use Origin Agent — CDE's in-IDE AI assistant.

• Tool calls (file edits, terminal commands) run inside your cloud sandbox
• Inference routes through ORGN Gateway — pick TEE models for verifiable confidential inference or ZDR models for frontier access with policy retention

See Origin Agent for model selection and tool use.

Verify sandbox attestation

After attach, fetch a TDX sandbox attestation report to confirm your worktree runs on genuine Intel TDX hardware:

• Click the TDX shield in the status bar, or
• Run Show TDX Sandbox Attestation from the command palette

See Attestation for what the report proves and how to use it in security reviews.