# Warden docs > Warden runs your coding agent under a short YAML rule file checked by a deterministic policy engine, plus a Software Factory that takes work from ticket to merged. ## Get started - [Warden docs](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/index.md): Run Claude Code, Codex or your own models under a short rule file that a deterministic engine checks before every action, and carry work from idea to production in the Software Factory. - [Install and first run](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/install.md): Download Warden, install your licence, connect a model, and watch your first rule fire, in about five minutes. - [How Warden decides](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/how-it-decides.md): What Warden checks, the three verdicts, how rule files combine, and what changes when nobody is watching the run. - [Connect your models](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/models.md): Use the subscriptions you already pay for, your own API keys, or models on your own Mac, and choose which model does which job. ## Rules - [Writing rules](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/writing-rules.md): The rule file format, from one line to a full policy, and the three ways to write it - the rule builder, plain English, or YAML. - [Rule reference](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/rule-reference.md): Every key a rule can match on, every touches value, every condition and fact, and exactly how commands and paths are matched. - [Rule sets and protections](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/rule-sets.md): Open, Guarded and Hardened, every ready-made protection they switch on, suggestions from your repo, and how Global and project settings combine. - [Rule recipes](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/rule-recipes.md): Ready-to-paste rules for the things teams ask for most - secrets, main, production clusters, databases, the web, MCP tools and models. - [Exceptions, tests and decisions](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/exceptions-and-tests.md): Allow one exact action without weakening a rule, pin policy tests that re-run on every change, and read every verdict in Decisions. - [Automated runs](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/automated-runs.md): Stricter rules for the runs nobody is watching - automations, Software Factory builds and assurance checks - and what happens to an action that would need your yes. - [The secret broker](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/secrets.md): Let the agent use an API token or password in a command without ever seeing its value, limited to the commands and hosts you choose. ## Software Factory - [The Software Factory](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/factory.md): One board that carries every piece of work from idea to production, with a person at the gates you choose and your rules checking every step. - [Set up the Factory](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/factory-setup.md): What a project needs before the Factory can carry its work, how to file your first idea, and how to pull work in from GitHub, Linear and Jira. - [What each stage means](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/factory-stages.md): Every stage on the Factory line, what Warden does in it, what it waits for, and the exact statuses you will see on an item. - [Lanes and gates](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/factory-lanes.md): How triage picks a lane, how to override it, and how your rules hold Factory work for a person at the moments that matter. - [Review, pull requests and merge](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/factory-review.md): How the Factory reviews a change against the original ask, when it merges by itself, and how pull requests fit in. ## Features - [Chat, files, terminal and browser](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/workspace.md): An agent and a code editor in one window - the chat, the editor with diff and commit, the terminal, the built-in browser, Mission Control and the project hub. - [Specs and plans](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/specs-and-plans.md): Write the work down before the agent writes code - versioned plans for most work, phased specs with testable requirements for work that has to be right. - [Intelligent review](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/review.md): Make review the fast part - the riskiest changes first with the reason why, boilerplate folded away, a reading budget, and a second model checking the work against what you asked for. - [Assurance levels](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/assurance.md): Five levels of proof that a change is right, from "it builds" to a machine-checked proof - what each checks, how to set them up, and what each still doesn't tell you. - [Workflows](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/workflows.md): Ordered chains of skills, commands and other workflows, stored with your repository and run from chat, a button, an automation or the Software Factory. - [Automations](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/automations.md): When something happens, if the conditions match, run an action - reviews before commits, docs kept in sync, red CI turned into Factory work - all under your automated-run rules. - [Agents and skills](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/agents-and-skills.md): Scoped agents whose tool access is enforced, not just requested - a read-only reviewer really can't write - plus skills and recipes. - [Restore points and memory](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/restore-and-memory.md): Undo any agent turn with restore points, and teach the agent once - memory, standing rules, lessons from your sessions, and AGENTS.md. - [Integrations and notifications](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/integrations.md): Connect GitHub, Linear, Jira, Sentry, Slack and more as MCP integrations, set the project's GitHub account, and get notified - in the app or on Telegram. - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/shortcuts.md): The command palette, project jumps, and the editor keys. Press ? in Warden for the full cheat sheet. ## Team - [Warden Team](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/team.md): One set of rules on every developer's laptop - company rules nobody can loosen, shared skills, an AI gateway, seats and roles, and backup of plans and specs. ## Reference - [Known limitations](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/limitations.md): What Warden doesn't do yet, in plain words. We'd rather you heard it from us. - [FAQ](https://wardenofpluto.com/docs/faq.md): The questions engineers ask first - about agents, rules, privacy, platforms and price.