User Guide

For the person sitting in front of an open Smithers workbench. Operator/security audit material lives in the Reference and Developer Guide sections.

• Workbench (browser UI) — the four-panel layout, the topology rail, inspector, source-graph, control palette, agent chat, runner panel, status bar.
• Issues, agent sessions, and sign-off — picking an issue, what dispatch does, how to read the live agent stream, and the sign-off forcing function.
• Convergence loop and review barrier — the round-by-round convergence loop; when reviews fan out and gather; rejection feedback that restarts the agent.
• Repo, providers, and ratchet — smithers.configure, ratchet status, escalation policy, container vs local mode.