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THE COHANDRY FIELD GUIDE

Find your next
“I can do that.”

A first task. A working feature. A team you know how to direct. Learn the next useful thing, then put it to work.

Browse 18 guides by topic, or search for a title or subject.

YOUR FIRST BUILD

One small feature. The whole workflow.

Start with the controls, build something real, then learn how to judge the result.

01 Get started →02 Build Task Garden →03 Review the evidence →

Start with the essentials

Make your first assignment clear.

First steps

Quick start

Install, connect and complete your first task.

Projects

Project setup

Create a paused project and choose a starting team.

Field guide

What goes in each field?

Project context (brief), responsibilities, assignments and success criteria—with examples.

Build and ship code

Move from a small feature to a reviewed pull request.

Hands-on tutorial

Build your first feature

The complete Task Garden coding tutorial and practice project.

GitHub

GitHub workflow

Task branches, worktrees, pull requests, checks and merging.

Assignments

Give work to your team

Choose a team objective or a direct task; scope one milestone.

Shape your AI team

Connect models and give each role a purpose.

Connections

Models and billing

ChatGPT, provider APIs, project defaults and optional fallback.

Team setup

Agents and permissions

Responsibilities, delegation, hosts and required reviewers.

Project knowledge

Resources and context

Import references, record decisions and separate workstreams.

Connect your tools

Configure the tools your project actually needs.

Integrations

Execution hosts and MCP

Project folders, local or remote workers and allowed tools.

Tests & commands

Project commands

Inspect command requests, approve once and follow test output.

Desktop tools

The owner shell

Open a terminal in the task workspace and work alongside agents.

Slack

Slack notifications

Optional task updates and scoped approval actions.

Review, recover and keep going

Know what happened and decide what happens next.

Review

Review deliverables

Inspect measured files, approve a revision or request changes.

Workflows

Follow work and ask questions

Progress, waiting reasons, messages and owner decisions.

Continuity

Automation and checkpoints

Bounded event rules and summaries for the next session.

Recovery

Backups and recovery

Preserve data and inspect interrupted work before retrying.

Help

Troubleshooting

Find the next check for common setup and workflow problems.

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