Builder Guides

Builder Guides show you how to go from a prompt or playbook to a production-ready agent on Stackmint — using Buds, Branches, and the marketplace as your core primitives.

Whether you're a fractional executive, an enterprise team, or an integration partner, these guides help you ship agents that run in real workflows, not just demos.

Start Here

If this is your first time building on Stackmint, follow these paths in order. They map directly to how we run internal and partner builds.

Guide 01

From Prompt to First Branch

Learn the core concepts — Buds, Branches, runs, and clients — and walk through building your first Branch from a single prompt.

Status: In preparation

Guide 02

Wiring Real Systems (Salesforce, Slack, Teams)

Connect your Branches to production systems, configure provider tokens, and design safe, auditable workflows.

Status: Drafting with design partners

Guide 03

Monetizing Agents with the Marketplace

Package Buds and Branches for reuse, define pricing, and publish them so clients and partners can install and pay for usage.

Status: Coming soon

Guides by Persona

Stackmint is built for three core builder types. Guides will be organized around these personas so you can follow playbooks that match how you work.

Fractional Executives & Consultants

Turn onboarding flows, QBRs, MEDDIC reviews, and forecasting into Branches you can reuse across clients — and optionally monetize in the marketplace.

  • Designing client-safe Branches
  • Separating reusable Buds from client-specific logic
  • Packaging "playbook as agent" offerings

Enterprise Teams

Build agents that run against your real stack: CRMs, ERPs, support systems, data warehouses, and collaboration tools.

  • Tenant / client setup for environments
  • RBAC, audit logs, and approval flows
  • Designing agents around existing SLAs

Integration & ISV Partners

Wrap your APIs and vertical logic as Buds and Branches that can be installed by many customers and orchestrated by other builders.

  • Designing connector Buds
  • Versioning and deprecation strategy
  • Telemetry & reliability best practices

Guide Roadmap

We're releasing Builder Guides in close collaboration with early partners. The first wave focuses on getting from "idea" to "agent in production" in days, not months.

Designing Your First Production Branch

How to choose a workflow, define inputs/outputs, add guardrails, and ship a Branch into a client environment with confidence.

Status: In progress with design partners

Multi-Model Agents on Stackmint

How to configure providers like OpenAI, Mistral, Hugging Face, and DeepSeek, and route workloads without rewriting Buds.

Status: Planned

Marketplace-Ready Buds and Branches

Structuring your logic, handling config, and documenting inputs so other builders can safely install and run your work.

Status: Planned

Observability, Evals & Governance

Using Stackmint's logging, tracing, and governance patterns to keep agents safe, debuggable, and compliant.

Status: Planned

Want to Co-Author a Guide?

We're working with a small set of fractional leaders, enterprise teams, and integration partners to turn their best playbooks into reference guides and sample Branches.

If you'd like to co-design a guide — or need early access to drafts — reach out and tell us what you're trying to build.

Email builders@stackmint.ai or docs@stackmint.ai.