Learn Pad

Getting started

From a new account to your agent working on its first task.

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   Start a new project with Pad

   Create a Pad Cloud account, make a workspace for your project, and link it to the code on your machine, so your coding agent has a project to work from.

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   Set up your workspace with /pad onboard

   Your coding agent sets up your Pad workspace with you: it asks how you work, then shapes collections, rules and playbooks to match.

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   Work through your first task

   Ask your agent what to work on next, and follow one task from open to done, with the task in Pad kept up to date as it goes.

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   Plan a feature with /pad plan

   Plan a feature with your agent: agree the goal, the scope and a task list, and end up with a plan in Pad and its tasks on your board.

Existing projects

Bring Pad into a codebase you already have.

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   Add Pad to an existing project

   Already have a repository? Link it to a Pad Cloud workspace, then let your agent read the project, move your open work into Pad, and propose rules from your Makefile and commit history.

Self-hosting

Run Pad on your own machine or server.

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   Self-host Pad with Docker

   Run your own Pad server with Docker.

Connect your agent

Use Pad from the coding agent you already work in.

Tutorials for this path are on the way.