Concepts
The lifecycle, limits, permission model, and vocabulary behind Kraft.
These pages explain how Kraft thinks, before you configure it. Start with how a work item runs. Vocabulary is the glossary: look a term up there when a page uses one you do not know, rather than reading it through.
In this section
- How a work item runs: the lifecycle from filing to archive, and where steers, fix loops, and escalation fit. Start here.
- Caps and budgets: how Kraft bounds time, tokens, and dollars. Read it when you set limits, or when a cap stops an item.
- Why a permission gate: why Kraft answers a worker's permission prompts itself. Read it when you restrict a worker's tools.
- Vocabulary: what each Kraft term means, from work item, chain, node, task, gate, and cap to harness, sandbox, and worktree. Look a term up; do not read it through.