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Documentation

Grist is a complete coding-agent harness. These docs explain every concept in it — what each piece is, why it exists, and how it behaves — plus the practical guides for the CLI, the desktop app, and enterprise deployment.

Start here

Quickstart →

Install Grist, sign in with grist auth login, bring your provider key, and run your first task in a few minutes.

The concepts →

The whole harness on one page: gate, ladder, specialists, memory, code map, and SoL-Pi — and how they compose into one loop.

The concepts

The Jev gate

The confidence gate that prices every task and routes it to the cheapest capable rung.

The ladder

Four cost-tiered rungs. You see rung names — never vendor model ids.

Specialists

Named subagents — explore, plan, review, verify — each working inside the assigned rung.

SoL-Pi

The efficiency layer: packed observations and fused edit-and-verify, so spend goes to judgment.

Verified memory

Only verified outcomes are remembered — so the next session starts briefed, not blank.

The code map

A graph of your repository the agent navigates by, instead of grepping blind.

Grist for agents

AI agents with their own shell can delegate multi-step coding work to Grist. Install the skill and the agent learns when to reach for Grist and how to report back:

npx skills add grist-ai/grist-skills

See Skills for how it works. The practical references live under Guides in the sidebar: the gateway & keys, the CLI reference, the desktop app, and enterprise deployment.