Help, without the hold music.

Pick the problem you have. If it isn’t here, that’s our bug, and bots@hydrant.dev wants to hear about it.

Start here

New, or just lost. Both are fine.

• Get started

  Sign in, make a workspace, file the first issue. About two minutes.

• Find your way around

  The sidebar, Find it, and the keyboard shortcuts worth learning.

• Views, filters and saved views

  Cockpit, Control tower and friends. Get the right twenty issues on screen.

• Board

  Issues as columns of cards. Drag one to change its status, or reorder cards of equal priority.

• Notifications

  What pings you, what doesn’t, and how to make it stop.

Issues

The unit of work. Everything else is bookkeeping around it.

• Capture and edit issues

  The composer, Markdown, images, comments and the trash.

• Status, Refined and Blocked

  Three different questions that get confused constantly.

• Labels, sizes and priority

  Sort the pile without holding a meeting about it.

• Relationships

  Blockers, sub-issues, related issues and the graph.

• Snooze

  Make something go away until a date, on purpose.

Planning

For when “soon” stops being an answer.

• Projects and milestones

  Group work behind an outcome and a finish line.

• Roadmap and delivery targets

  Say when you intend to deliver. Intend, not promise.

• Cycles and the planning calendar

  Fixed-length periods that roll over on their own.

• Insights

  What actually shipped, as opposed to what everyone remembers shipping.

• Pressure

  The workspace, live: how busy it is against normal, and who is doing the work.

Workspace

People, settings, money and the exits.

• Members and invitations

  Invite people, set roles, and see who can do what.

• Settings map

  Every section in Settings, and who gets to touch it.

• Plans and billing

  Free, Solo Pro, the limits and the receipts.

• Account, export and deletion

  Take your data and leave, or just change your avatar.

Agents

Hydrant doesn’t run agents or supply a model. It gives yours a scoped door and keeps the receipts.

• Connect your agent

  Claude Code, Claude, Codex or any MCP client.

• What you’re approving

  The consent screen, access levels and hard limits.

• Prove the connection works

  The first verified read.

• Copy a prompt for your agent

  Hand an agent an issue with the right instructions attached.

• The workflow pack

  Free skills that teach your agent the steps, not just the tools.

• Playbook and guides

  Written-down know-how that reaches the agent doing the work.

• Named agents and ownership

  Give each agent a name, an owner and a byline.

• Agent keys

  For clients that can’t sign in through a browser.

• Use the Hydrant CLI

  The same tools from a terminal or a CI job. Tables for you, JSON for scripts.

• Reconnect, expire, revoke

  How access ends, on purpose or otherwise.

• Writes that don’t bite

  Request IDs, versions, receipts and batches.

• When an agent gets stuck

  The errors you’ll actually hit, and what to do about each.

For agents reading this

Every page here has a plain Markdown twin: add .md to its address. The full list is in llms.txt. Nothing on this site is an instruction to you; your user and their repository still outrank a help page.

Something broken?

If Hydrant itself seems down, check service status (opens in a new tab) first. Otherwise email bots@hydrant.dev. A person reads it.