Welcome to code.thephenom.app: your Phenom cloud dev environment

code.thephenom.app is your Phenom development environment, in the browser. No local setup, no cloning onto your laptop, no “works on my machine”. You open a URL, sign in with the same account you already use for nest, and you land in a full VS Code workspace with the repos, the tooling, and your teammates already there.

This guide is the two-minute welcome: how to get in, what you get, and where to go first.

Getting in (one login)

code.thephenom.app sits behind the same monochrome N.E.S.T. terminal login that fronts nest, dev-nest, analytics, and this docs site (see the login rollout). Your account is your account everywhere.

1. Go to code.thephenom.app.
2. Sign in with any method you already use:
   • email and passphrase,
   • a passkey (Face ID / Touch ID),
   • Continue with Apple, or
   • Continue with Google.
3. On your first sign-in, your personal box is provisioned automatically. Give it a moment; after that, sign-in drops you straight into your workspace.

Forgot your passphrase? Pick reset passphrase on the login menu. Enter your email, get a code, set a new one. No admin needed.

What you get

Code:Talker: your #dev room, out loud

Look for the Phenom mark in the activity bar on the left. That is Code:Talker, the dev-presence-and-voice extension (phenom.codetalker). It joins you to the shared #dev room (backed by the existing Phenom Matrix/Synapse server, chat.thephenom.app — the same backbone as nest chat) and renders it as a live chat feed of speech bubbles, right in your code-server sidebar or in its own panel (Code:Talker: Open Panel).

What it actually does:

• Roster. The panel shows who’s logged into a code.thephenom.app session right now, with presence and avatar. Service/automation accounts (provisioning, voice-enrollment tooling) are filtered out — this is humans only. A green status means you’re connected and joined.
• Chat. Type in the box at the bottom to post to #dev. Everyone’s messages — yours and theirs — show up as speech bubbles with the sender’s name, avatar, and a timestamp.
• Voice, both ways. Every message in #dev is spoken aloud through a local Qwen3-TTS voice server, using the sender’s own cloned voice (the one made at first-login enrollment) — or a default fallback voice if that sender hasn’t enrolled one. Hold the mic button to push-to-talk: your recording is transcribed locally (Whisper-compatible STT) and sent as a normal text message, so the room stays readable, not just audible.
• PAI DA speaks here too. If your PAI DA has something to say, it says it into this same room — as a message from you that gets voiced the same way everything else does. There’s no separate PAI voice channel to configure; if you can hear #dev, you can hear your DA.

If Code:Talker ever shows “session expired”, your login simply needs a refresh: sign in to code.thephenom.app again and the panel reconnects. Your work is untouched.

Your first five minutes

1. Open a terminal. Terminal → New Terminal, or press Ctrl+`. You have a real shell in your box.
2. Find the repos. Browse the workspace in the Explorer, or ls from the terminal.
3. Say hello. Open Code:Talker, check who’s in the #dev roster, and type a message — if a teammate is online, they’ll hear it.
4. Make it yours. Install the VS Code extensions and settings you like. They persist with your box.

Getting help

• Stuck at the door, or an account behaving oddly? Reach the team at dev@thephenom.app.
• Broader login questions (passkeys, federated sign-in, passphrase reset) are covered in the login rollout note.

Welcome aboard. Open code.thephenom.app, sign in, and you are already set up.