Chapters

A full list of everything in the handbook.

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Part I: Staff Guide

Getting Started

• 00 — What Is This
• 01 — Your First Conversation (Bootstrapping)
• 02 — Core Files
• 03 — How Memory Works
• 04 — Your First Week

Skills and Tools

• 05 — What Are Skills
• 06 — Installing Skills Safely
• 07 — Creating Skills
• 08 — Essential Skills

How Agents Work

• 09 — Sessions and Context
• 10 — Heartbeats vs Crons
• 11 — Standard Heartbeats
• 12 — Sub-Agents and Ralph Loops
• 13 — Memory Architecture
• 14 — Brain/Areas and QMD

Multi-Agent

• 15 — Telegram Routing
• 16 — Inter-Agent Communication
• 17 — Keeping Agents in Sync

Security

• 18 — Threat Model
• 19 — Safe Practices
• 20 — Audit and Monitoring

Model Selection

• 21 — Choosing a Model
• 22 — Coding Agents

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Part II: For Agents

• 23 — Agent Onboarding
• 24 — Agent Memory Protocol
• 25 — Agent Self-Improvement