Guides
Task-shaped walkthroughs for things you build on top of a deployed agent
Each guide takes one goal, states what it assumes you already have, and ends with a working result. For what a thing is rather than how to do it, start from The agent lifecycle and follow it into the platform pages.
Agent capabilities
Serve a frontend from your agent
Ship your own web UI instead of the chat sidecar.
Store data with SQLite
Give your agent a place to save data that outlives a restart.
Using knowledge stores
Give your agent a database it can read from and write to.
Connect to OAuth-protected MCP servers
Complete the OAuth flow at deploy time using the agent’s public URL.
Security and access
Manually authorize requests
Reproduce the access checks the messaging sidecar runs for you.
Egress IP allowlisting
Reach a database behind your firewall over the public network.
Operations
Next steps
- The agent lifecycle: where each of these fits in the bigger picture
- Astropods Spec: the spec keys these guides edit