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Everything you need to get productive with Silver Bullet, the Agentic Process Orchestrator (APO) for AI-native delivery — from first install to complex DevOps workflows.

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Getting Started

New to Silver Bullet or AI-assisted development? Start here to go from zero to your first enforced workflow session.

  • What AI-driven development is (and isn't)
  • Prerequisites: host coding agent, GSD, and any helper plugins required by the selected workflow
  • Installing Silver Bullet
  • Running your first session
  • Choosing Interactive vs Autonomous mode
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Fundamentals

Core Concepts

Understand the building blocks: APO routing, skills, hooks, GSD lifecycle ownership, cross-plugin orchestration, and why enforcement matters.

  • Skills and how they're invoked
  • Hooks and automated enforcement
  • SB vs GSD vs Superpowers ownership model
  • 8 core quality gates plus conditional gates
  • Agent teams and parallelism
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Workflow

Software Engineering Workflow

The composed application delivery path, from intent routing and GSD planning through release.

  • Project initialization with GSD
  • Discuss → Quality Gates → Plan → Execute
  • Verify, Code Review, and acceptance loop
  • Finalization, CI/CD, and deployment
  • Ship and Release steps
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DevOps

DevOps & IaC Workflow

The composed infrastructure workflow with Incident Fast Path, Blast Radius assessment, and Environment Promotion.

  • Incident Fast Path for emergencies
  • Blast Radius assessment (LOW → CRITICAL)
  • IaC-adapted quality gates
  • Environment promotion: dev → staging → prod
  • DevOps plugin ecosystem integration
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Reference

Command Reference

Every key GSD command, Silver Bullet command, config option, workflow, and file location — all in one place.

  • All /gsd:* commands with descriptions
  • Silver Bullet skills catalog
  • .silver-bullet.json config options
  • Recommended project file structure
  • Session log and planning file formats
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Orchestration Workflows

The named workflows that power Silver Bullet's dynamic routing — from idea clarification and specs to releases.

  • /silver:clarify — fuzzy-intent intake
  • /silver:feature — full feature dev cycle
  • /silver:bugfix — triage-first bug investigation
  • /silver:ui — UI/UX with accessibility gate
  • /silver:devops — IaC with blast radius
  • /silver:spec, /silver:ingest, /silver:validate — spec pipeline
  • /silver:release — milestone publish workflow
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Troubleshooting

Common issues, CI failures, hook errors, and how to diagnose problems with the enforcement system.

  • Hook failures and permission errors
  • CI gate and skill not found issues
  • Recovery from failed sessions
  • Configuration and enforcement bypass
Troubleshoot issues →

New to AI-driven development? Silver Bullet works best when you understand what it's doing and why. Start with Getting Started, then Core Concepts before diving into workflows. The more you understand the system, the more you get from it.