> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://darwin.so/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Onboard best practices

> Create provider accounts with clear terms, minimal data, and explicit handoffs.

## Name the destination

Show the provider, account type, required fields, material terms, and why an account is needed before the user leaves the Action. Never make a provider signup look like a Darwin account flow.

## Separate required and optional consent

* Keep required provider terms distinct from optional marketing or data-sharing choices.
* Do not preselect optional consent.
* Require a fresh review when the provider, account type, terms, or requested data changes.
* Do not infer acceptance from conversation text or a previously created account.

## Protect registration secrets

Collect passwords, one-time codes, recovery details, and identity evidence only in the appropriate first-party or provider surface. Exclude them from model context, Action results, logs, traces, analytics, and receipts.

## Hand off to the next component

After account creation, read the same Action. The next requirement may be [Authenticate](/docs/act/connections), [Verify](/docs/act/verify), [Approve](/docs/act/approvals), or [Pay](/docs/act/payments); signup itself satisfies none of those decisions.

## Test incomplete registration

Test duplicate email, abandoned signup, changed terms, unavailable username, required verification, provider rejection, duplicate callback, and an account created while the client times out.