Practical guides

The labs teach through one repository and one story. These guides drop the story and keep the method. Each stands on its own, so you can hand one to a colleague who hasn't done the workshop.

Guide	Read it when	What you leave with
AGENTS.md that works	You're writing or rewriting the file every Droid session starts from	A section-by-section structure, before-and-after examples, and a way to test the file instead of admiring it
Guardrails for regulated repos	You're preparing a proof of concept somewhere code changes get audited	What to put in place before the first delegation, and how to present it to a model-risk or security reviewer
Droid in CI	You want Droid running headless in a pipeline	Patterns for droid exec that are bounded, reviewable and cheap enough to run on every pull request

Every Droid fact in these guides was checked against Factory's documentation on 29 September 2026. The docs change. When a guide and the docs disagree, trust the docs, and tell us.