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Wacht handles the parts of a backend that aren't your product. Identity, organizations, machine credentials, webhooks, notifications, and a runtime for AI agents. One model across all of them.

You write the prompts, the tools, and the UI. Everything else this section covers is already running.

Read in order

1. Anatomy of a Wacht app. The nouns: actors, projects, threads, board items, assignments, workspaces.
2. Mental model. How to think about a Wacht app when you're designing one.
3. Your first build. End to end: deployment, agent, frontend, task, result.
4. Common patterns. The shapes most apps fall into.

Anatomy is the longest. The rest get progressively more concrete.

Skip ahead if

• You already know the model and want code → Your first build
• You want playbooks per feature → Guides
• You want exact API shapes → Reference
• You want framework integration → SDKs