Guides

Task-oriented guides for using milk day to day. Read them in order the first time — each one assumes the concepts from the previous — then jump straight to whichever you need.

1. Providers & configuration — set up agent backends: local inference servers, Bedrock, Claude CLI, aider, smolagents, Bearer-token APIs. Auth transports, context windows, memory tuning.
2. Routing, sessions & workflows — how prompts are routed between your primary and escalation agents, session state management, sticky escalation, and the native multi-agent /workflow engine.
3. Tooling, MCP & tool-agents — give agents hands: built-in tools, other agents exposed as tools, MCP servers (including OAuth), attachments, and machine-readable output.
4. Operations — running milk in practice: memory and its panel, observability, loop detection, task tracking, config reload, remote oversight (Telegram), graceful degradation.

New to milk? Start with Getting started before these. Looking for milk eval, ACP, or the full spec? Those are in Reference.