Sign in and link your editor
Updated July 17, 2026
Linking connects one machine to your Awaitful account so its earnings are credited to you. You sign in once, from the editor, and approve it in your browser. There is no password typed into the editor and no token pasted anywhere.
How to link
Run Awaitful: Sign In
Open the Command Palette in your editor and run Awaitful: Sign In. Your browser opens on the Awaitful link page.
Approve in the browser
The page uses the account session you already have - email and password, Google, or GitHub. If you are not signed in, it takes you through sign-in first and comes straight back. You see which account the machine will join, and one button: link this machine.
Done
The editor picks up the approval within a few seconds and starts earning to your account. You can watch it accrue in the dashboard - see Your first earnings.
What the link actually is
Approving mints a device token: one opaque, revocable credential stored in your editor's secret storage. It identifies the machine, not a browser session, and its power is deliberately narrow. It can fetch sponsored lines, report the events that prove they were seen, and read your account name and earnings summary so the panel can show them. It cannot move money, change campaigns, or list your other devices.
Revoking a machine
Settings in the dashboard lists every linked device with when it was linked and last seen. Revoke one and its token stops working: the extension notices within about two minutes, signs itself out, and the machine returns to the signed-out state. Earnings you already made stay yours. Anything a revoked machine tries to report afterwards is not credited to anyone.
Revoking is one of several off switches, each with a precisely defined effect - the full list is in Turning it off. And if you want to know exactly what a linked machine sends, that list is short and public: What leaves your machine.