Less searching, more doing.
A coach for the moments
you're alone with the agents.¶
Berd is where you start alone. This is the guide that sits beside it: the steps for each thing you will do, the one paragraph of why when a step surprises you, and a plain answer for when it goes sideways. Written for one person, one laptop, one cast of agents. Nothing here needs a relay.
Starter task list
Which moment are you in?¶
First time
What Berd is, what it refuses to be, and the six words you need before anything else.
MoreGo deeper
Sixteen short articles on how it actually works, each ending in the task it makes easier.
ApplyDo it now
Twenty-three tasks in six phases, each with a sticky note of steps you can follow with Berd open.
SolveIt broke
Thirty-one questions with the short answer first. Errors, silences, and things that look like bugs but aren't.
ChangeIt moved
Berd ships weekly. What each release changed, and which pages here are now behind.
The six phases — cast in order of appearance¶
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Install, connect a provider, pick a harness, make Home yours. Good for getting to a first real win Vibes patient, one screen at a time
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Projects around your folders, sessions in order, the right rail. Good for giving the engagement a home Vibes tidy, a little territorial
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The built-in ten, an agent of your own, skills, and how Berd remembers you. Good for agents that work your way Vibes theatrical, exacting
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The working session, artifacts, voice, and the widen–narrow–stress-test pattern. Good for the daily rhythm Vibes steady, unbothered by queues
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The command line, long work outside the turn — and the automations that are not in the public build yet. Good for not doing it a third time Vibes restless, slightly dangerous
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Connections, where your Berd lives, staying current, and the one bridge to Buzz. Good for sleeping at night Vibes calm, keeps receipts
Your coach¶
Coach · 0000
Sticky
A note that knows. Sticks to the edge of your screen and says the one thing you need at the moment you need it, then stays out of the way.
Good for the moment you get stuck
Vibes adhesive, unbothered
How to use this guide¶
Keep Berd on one half of the screen and this on the other. Each task page opens with a sticky note of steps — every entry links to its detail. Each knowledge article ends with Do it: and the task it makes easier. Each FAQ shows the short answer first and hides the rest until you ask.
Everything is stamped. Read from source means the page was written from Berd's own help files, laws, UI strings and release notes at the version shown, and has not yet been walked through in the app. That is the current state of every page here, and the About page says what changes when it is no longer true.
When the work stops being yours alone, it belongs in Buzz. The Buzz Guide is the other half of this one, and Buzz or Berd is the one rule for which is which.
The map — six phases, one exit¶
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P1["01 · Set up Berd"]:::p --> P2["02 · Shape the workspace"]:::p --> P3["03 · Build your cast"]:::p --> P4["04 · Do the work"]:::p
P4 <--> P5["05 · Automate and delegate"]:::p
P4 -. every engagement .-> P6["06 · Safeguard and hand off"]:::p
P6 -. start alone, then go multiplayer .-> B(("Buzz")):::crit