# Docs


- **Get started**
- [Introduction](/docs): A runtime for agents that keep working across waits, crashes, events, and human decisions.
- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart): Install an SDK, authenticate, and run your first mandate.

- **Concepts**
- [Agents](/docs/concepts/agents): Configure an agent’s model, instructions, and capabilities.
- [Capabilities](/docs/concepts/capabilities): What an agent can do.
- [Mandates](/docs/concepts/mandates): One job you hand to Shadway, and the rules it follows.
- [Execution](/docs/concepts/execution): How a mandate runs, survives crashes, and picks back up.
- [Waiting](/docs/concepts/waiting): How a mandate waits for time, events, or people.
- [Approvals](/docs/concepts/approvals): When a mandate pauses for a person to approve an action.
- [Verification](/docs/concepts/verification): How Shadway checks what actually happened.

- **Reference**
- [Built-in capabilities](/docs/capabilities): The built-in capabilities an agent can use, and how to define your own.
- [Guides](/docs/guides): Short walkthroughs for the things you build most.
- [API reference](https://docs.shadway.com/api)