Connect a Board

The kit needs three values to talk to your Eventmodelers board: an organization ID, a board ID, and an API token. This guide covers getting them, where they’re stored, and how to change them later.

Get your credentials

Sign in at app.eventmodelers.ai/account
Generate an API token in your workspace settings — it is a UUID and is shown only once, so copy it immediately
Note your organization ID (from your organization settings) and the board ID (from the board’s URL)

Option 1: During installation

The installer asks for credentials interactively:

🔑 Enter your Eventmodelers credentials (press Enter to skip any field):

  Organization ID:
  Board ID:
  Token:

Paste each value, or press Enter to skip and connect later.

Option 2: With the `connect` skill

If you skipped credentials at install time, or need to change them later, use /connect inside Claude Code. The skill:

Checks for inline overrides (board=<uuid>, token=<uuid>, org=<uuid>, baseUrl=<url>) in the prompt that invoked it
Falls back to .eventmodelers/config.json for any value not overridden
Asks you for anything still missing, one field at a time
Writes the resolved config back to disk

Every other skill in the kit (build-state-change, build-state-view, build-automation, load-slice, update-slice-status) calls connect first, so you never have to wire credentials into each one individually.

Where credentials live

The installer writes the same config to two places:

Location	Purpose
`.eventmodelers/config.json` (project root)	The primary config, checked first
`.build-kit/.eventmodelers/config.json` (kit directory)	An optional override, checked second

Resolution order is inline parameter > project-root config > kit-directory config > ask the user. Both files are excluded from version control automatically.

The config shape is:

{
  "organizationId": "<uuid>",
  "boardId": "<uuid>",
  "token": "<uuid>",
  "baseUrl": "https://api.eventmodelers.ai"
}

baseUrl defaults to https://api.eventmodelers.ai and only needs to be set explicitly when pointing at a self-hosted or local instance.

Verify the connection

npx github:Cratis/Eventmodelers-Build-Kit-Java status

A working connection prints the organization and board the kit is currently pointed at:

Connected to: https://api.eventmodelers.ai
Organization: <your-org-id>
Board:        <your-board-id>

Rotate or change credentials

Run /connect again with an inline override to switch boards without editing files by hand:

/connect board=<new-board-uuid>

Or edit .eventmodelers/config.json directly and restart the loop.