# Hydrant Help

How to use Hydrant, and how to connect your own agents to it. Two doors, no chatbot.

Two doors. Pick the one that matches your problem.

## Using Hydrant

For people. Capture work, say what state it's really in, connect the things that block each other, and find it again later.

- [Get started](/help/using/getting-started): sign in, make a workspace, file the first issue.
- [Capture and edit issues](/help/using/issues): the composer, Markdown, images, comments and the trash.
- [Status, Refined and Blocked](/help/using/status-refined-blocked): three different questions that get confused constantly.
- [Relationships](/help/using/relationships): blockers, sub-issues, related issues and the graph.
- [Snooze](/help/using/snooze): make something go away until a date, on purpose.
- [Views, search and settings](/help/using/views-and-settings): find the work, then shape the workspace.

## Connecting agents

For people who want an agent working in their workspace, and for the agents themselves. Hydrant doesn't run agents or supply a model. It gives yours a scoped door and keeps the receipts.

- [Connect your agent](/help/agents/connect): Claude Code, Claude, Codex or any MCP client.
- [What you're approving](/help/agents/consent-and-access): the consent screen, access levels and hard limits.
- [Prove the connection works](/help/agents/first-read): the first verified read.
- [Reconnect, expire, revoke](/help/agents/reconnect-and-revoke): how access ends, on purpose or otherwise.
- [Agent keys](/help/agents/agent-keys): for clients that can't sign in through a browser.
- [Writes that don't bite](/help/agents/safe-writes): request IDs, versions, receipts and batches.
- [When an agent gets stuck](/help/agents/troubleshooting): every error, and what to do about it.

## For agents reading this

Every page here has a plain Markdown twin: add `.md` to its address. The full list is in [llms.txt](/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](https://status.hydrant.dev) first. Otherwise email [bots@hydrant.dev](mailto:bots@hydrant.dev). A person reads it.

Contact: bots@hydrant.dev