How-to Guides

How-to Guides are task-oriented. Every page answers "how do I do X with Zeroth?" with a minimal runnable example, the common patterns you'll reach for, and a list of named pitfalls to avoid. Pair every Usage Guide with its sibling Concept page when you need the "why".

Zeroth follows the Diátaxis model: Concepts for understanding, Usage Guides for task-oriented instructions, Tutorials for guided learning, and Reference for look-up.

Subsystem usage guides

Execution

• Graph
• Orchestrator
• Agents
• Execution units
• Conditions

Data and state

• Mappings
• Memory
• Storage
• Contracts
• Runs

Governance

• Policy
• Approvals
• Audit
• Guardrails
• Identity

Platform

• Secrets
• Dispatch
• Economics
• Service
• Webhooks
• MCP tools

Cookbook

The Cookbook is a collection of ten short cross-subsystem recipes — each is a runnable task ("add an approval step", "cap a run's cost budget", "sandbox a tool call") that cuts across multiple subsystems. Every recipe has a When to use / When NOT to use block and embeds a real example from the examples/ directory.