Trails / Developer Onboarding

Developer Onboarding

A new-hire's path through how Constructured actually ships software: the philosophy, the required tools (beads, timbers, just, the gates), the recommended ones (codex, worktrees, RTK), and the day-to-day workflow from spec to merge.

Parts

1. Part 1

   How We Build Here

   What's changed about writing production software, and what this trail is going to teach you

   14 min engineering product
2. Part 2

   The Workshop

   A map of every tool between you and a shipped pull request, and where each one comes from

   12 min engineering product
3. Part 3

   Easy Installation

   The shortest path from a fresh laptop to a working Osprey Strike checkout

   12 min engineering operations
4. Part 4

   Claude Code as Daily Driver

   The agent harness most of us reach for first, what we run inside it, and the alternatives that are perfectly fine

   19 min engineering
5. Part 5

   Codex as Second Opinion

   When a single model is bluffing or stuck, a second model is the cheapest unblock available

   13 min engineering
6. Part 6

   Quiet Power Tools

   RTK, tokf, and the small CLI multipliers that compound across every session

   8 min engineering
7. Part 7

   Your Box and Your Trust Model

   What runs on your machine, and how much rope you give the agent — one has a project answer, the other is yours

   19 min engineering security operations