Cookbook

Cookbook pages start from your goal, not the tool. Pick the one that matches what you want to do.

Customize the team

• Add a custom agent — define a new specialist (registry, prompt, sync, smoke test).
• Custom specialists and teams — author your own specialist or team into .construct/org/ or ~/.construct/org/, without touching the built-in roster.
• Inspect running agents — see what specialists ran for a task and why.

Fix something

• Fix a policy violation — a commit, push, or PR is blocked. Find which gate fired and what to do.
• Slash command index — find the right slash command by intent.
• Operations → Troubleshooting — common failure modes beyond policy enforcement.

Connect to external systems

• Manage providers — the provider model in one page.
• Configure GitHub
• Configure Slack
• Configure Jira and Confluence
• Configure Salesforce

Plug in your own pieces

• Plug in your own LLM — swap models per tier (reasoning / standard / fast). Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, any OpenAI-compatible.
• Plug in a retrieval backend — embedder, chunker, indexer, fuser, reranker, compressor. Six layers, all swappable.

Workflow templates

• Onboard a new engineer — day-1 brief, access checklist, week-1 handoff in one command.
• Track research findings — capture, stamp, and cite research notes so they survive into PRDs and ADRs.
• Cross-team handoff — transfer in-flight work without losing context, blockers, or decisions.

Common day-to-day tasks

• Generate artifacts (PRDs, ADRs, RFCs)
• Use the inbox — drop a file, watch the daemon classify it into R&D triage, drive the queue with construct intake
• Query the knowledge base
• Distill and infer from documents
• Wireframe and drop assets
• Observability and cost — Telemetry traces (now including R&D-loop events), cost ledger, eval datasets
• Start embed mode
• Override storage root