How-to guides

How-to guides help you complete specific tasks. Pick the task that matches what you need to do right now.

Build with ARK (application developers)

• Create and manage models.
• Create and manage agents.
• Create and manage teams of agents.
• Create queries.
• Add tools and MCP servers:
  • Create tools and MCP servers.
  • Use the ARK CLI.
• Use sample patterns you can adapt:
  • Explore team samples.
  • Explore MCP server samples.

Extend ARK (contributors and platform developers)

• Build and run services locally:
  • Develop locally.
  • Understand the build system and Makefile.
• Implement and expose APIs and services:
  • Work with services.
  • Use the ARK API.
• Build A2A servers.
• Add workflows, testing, and observability:
  • Work with Argo workflows.
  • Run end-to-end tests.
  • Monitor with observability tools.

Operate ARK (operators, SRE, and security)

Platform operations (day-2 and runtime)

• Provision cloud infrastructure.
• Deploy ARK.

CI/CD and supply chain

• Configure build pipelines.

Security and assurance

• Review penetration testing reports.
• Review code analysis reports.
• Review artifact analysis reports.