Use this index to jump to the right guide quickly and see how the pieces connect.
- Quickstart — installation, environment prep, builds, and the fast path to running the CLI/TUI/Web.
- Contributor Runbook — day-one flow for contributors (build, lint, verify).
- Feature Guide — user-facing capabilities across the TUI and CLI with power-user tips.
- Web UI Guide — browser workflow and TUI/Web parity appendix.
- Conductor Bridge — connect the Conductor extension to a local Maestro server.
- Ambient Agent Design — always-on GitHub agent daemon architecture.
- Any-Agent EvalOps Control Plane - options and shim strategy for bringing any coding agent into EvalOps registration, governance, traces, evidence, and memory.
- Tools Reference — authoritative slash command and flag definitions.
- Safety — approvals, sandboxing, and firewall behavior.
- Agent Safety Boundary — how MCP workspace trust, guarded files, approvals, audit, and sandbox policy compose.
- Threat Model — security architecture, trust boundaries, and attack mitigations.
- Models — provider/model registry sources, overrides, defaults, and OpenAI-compat quirks.
- Sessions — session formats, storage locations, and management commands.
- Prompt Queue — queue lifecycle, prioritization, and diagnostics hooks.
- MCP Guide — Model Context Protocol setup and usage.
- Headless Protocol Reference — versioned JSON-over-stdio contract for Chat, TUIs, and other embedders.
- Codex Parity Conformance — compact anchors for Codex-inspired auth, patching, MCP, queue, and hosted-runtime surfaces.
- Hosted Runner Contract — provider-neutral runtime contract for account-scoped remote Maestro sessions.
- Platform AgentRuntime Session Bridge — how hosted session starts are projected to Platform AgentRuntime/A2A with trace and support correlation.
- AgentRuntime Task Mapping — how local todo, background-task, checkpoint, and swarm concepts project into Platform AgentRuntime phases.
- Pending Request Contract — unified session projection for approvals, user input, MCP elicitations, tool retries, and Platform waits.
- Architecture Diagram — high-level system layout.
- VS Code Architecture — extension-specific architecture and flows.
- Ambient Agent Design — always-on GitHub agent daemon architecture.
- Patterns — implementation patterns (e.g., event suppression, tool error handling).
- Design Index — comprehensive design documentation for all major subsystems.
- Headless Control Plane — session/control-plane design for headless remote attach, server requests, and subscriber backpressure.
- Any-Agent EvalOps Control Plane - agent-neutral control-plane, registry, shim, trace, evidence, and memory integration strategy.
- Platform AgentRuntime Session Bridge — hosted-session trigger projection, A2A fallback, trace context, and boundary normalization.
- AgentRuntime Task Mapping — next-phase todo/background/swarm projection into Platform AgentRuntime.
- Core Systems: Tool System, Agent State Machine, Context Management, Session Persistence
- User Interface: TUI Rendering, Web UI Architecture
- Safety & Security: Safety Firewall, Enterprise RBAC, OAuth Authentication
- Supporting Systems: Hooks, MCP Integration, LSP Integration, Telemetry, Database
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Enterprise — deployment, configuration, and hardening guidance for controlled environments.
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CI Version Pins — where Node/Bun/action SHAs are pinned and how to update them safely.
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Changelog — release history and notable changes.
When in doubt, start with the Quickstart, skim the Feature Guide, keep the Tools Reference nearby, and use the Contributor Runbook before opening a PR.