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Getting started

From download to a working team takes a few minutes. Here's what happens the first time you open Guildly, and what each choice means.

Install and open

Grab the app from the download page and open it. Guildly runs on your machine and works directly on your project folder, so your code never has to leave your computer.

Create or link a project

A project in Guildly is just a folder with code in it. If you're starting fresh, choose New project and Guildly sets up the folder for you. If you already have a codebase, choose Link existing project and point it at the folder. You can run several projects side by side and switch between them from the project name at the top of the sidebar.

Brief the team

On first run you'll see a screen called Brief the team. It introduces your starting roster (a manager, a product manager, three engineers, and a reviewer) and asks you three questions:

• How familiar are you with coding?This changes how the team explains things to you. Pick honestly. If you say "not at all", agents will skip the jargon.
• Do you have a GitHub account?If you don't use GitHub, the team keeps everything local and won't send you links you can't open.
• How should the team keep you in the loop?Short summaries, detailed updates, or only when you're needed.

You'll also pick how much the agents can do without asking you first. This is a safety dial, not a commitment. You can change it any time in Settings under Automation.

Hit Brief the team and the manager posts a recap in chat confirming how everyone will work with you.

What you're looking at

The app is a sidebar plus one main pane. The sidebar has three areas: your project switcher at the top, the list of tabs in the middle (chat, tickets, ideas and so on, each covered in its own page in these docs), and your agents at the bottom. Each agent row shows who they are, whether they're working right now, and which AI model they're running on.

Next step: make your first request.