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What next

From first-success to actually using Construct day-to-day.

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You have Construct installed, a project initialized, agents synced, and you've dispatched your first task. Now what.

Things to read once

If you want to understand...Read
Why Construct works the way it doesArchitecture
Pick solo / team / enterpriseDeployment model
How signals become triaged R&D workIntake and triage
The persona/specialist modelAgents and personas
What blocks commits and whyGates and enforcement
The durable-state storyBeads and state

Things you might want to do

If you want to...Go to
Add a new specialist or persona to your teamAdd a custom agent
Inspect what agents are running and whyInspect running agents
Fix a CI failure or a blocked commitFix a policy violation
Connect to GitHub, Jira, Slack, or SalesforceConfigure providers
Swap out the LLM or embedding modelPlug in your own LLM
Use Construct conversationallyConnect your editor
Check fleet health with Oracleconstruct oracle status — see Architecture
Run Construct on AWSDeploy to AWS

Reference, when you need it

  • CLI reference — every command, every flag.
  • Configuration — env vars, config files, what each does.
  • Hooks — the hooks that fire on file edits, commits, pushes, prompts.
  • MCP tools — tools exposed to Claude Code / OpenCode via MCP.

When something breaks

  • Run construct doctor first. Almost everything points at a specific fix.
  • Check the troubleshooting guide for known patterns.
  • In solo mode (the default), Construct runs entirely locally. If a cloud API is down, you can still work from plan.md, .construct/context.md, the latest handoff, beads, git, and the local vector index. See deployment model for team/enterprise options.