Training
Guided paths group modules into a programme; a module is a set of short units with an exercise and a knowledge check. Every module also stands on its own.
Learning paths
06- Agent platform fundamentals Start where you can build: install the Namzu agent kernel, register a model provider, make your first call, and declare a tool with an explicit authority. Then step down a layer to Yuva, the sovereign kernel Cogitave is building to enforce those declarations on hardware it controls - including an honest account of what Yuva cannot do yet.
- Build on Cogitave Core Learn the harmonic core that every Cogitave product and agent shares: the Cogitave Core node and edge model, Cogitave Query, the native MCP interface, and how products project their state into a single queryable graph. By the end you'll be able to read the estate the same way humans and agents do. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
- Cogitave engineering standards Learn the standards floor that governs every repository in the Cogitave estate: the AGENTS.md rules, naming, commits and versioning, testing and quality, API design, configuration, secure SDLC, CI/CD, and observability and reliability. By the end you'll be able to make changes that pass the org gates by default. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
- Contributor onboarding The fast start for everyone who joins Cogitave: apply the non-negotiable AGENTS floor, inherit a repository's complete ruleset through the project baseline, work the propose-only request lifecycle, and open your first signed, Conventional-Commit pull request. This is the Tier-0 entry point every role track builds on. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
- Operate the estate Learn to operate the Cogitave estate safely and auditably: work the propose-only request lifecycle, run agentic operations, apply reliability and SRE practice, respond to incidents, and stand up Day 1 operations. By the end you'll be able to keep the estate running under least privilege with every action recorded as evidence. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
- Patterns and golden paths Learn to build the Cogitave way: reuse first, discover before you generate, start from the patterns catalog, inherit a repository's complete ruleset through the project baseline, and use the decision guides for database, infrastructure, and model selection. By the end you'll reach for the named artifact before writing anything new. Day 0: this path is scaffolded - the module bodies are authored in a later content phase.
Modules
25- Design and version a Cogitave API Shape a clean, consistent API against the Cogitave API design standard - resources, standard methods, typed errors, cursor pagination, idempotency - then version and deprecate it under the versioning policy so no consumer is ever broken without consent.
- Apply the naming standards Name a new identifier, file, repo, or branch the way the estate does - keyword-first, no redundant prefix, cased by role - and tell a functional keyword apart from a product codename, so your first artifact passes the naming gate by default.
- Apply the AGENTS floor State the seven non-negotiable rules every Cogitave contributor and agent obeys, say what enforces each one - a hook, a CI gate, an org ruleset, or policy-as-code - and apply them to your own first change.
- Build your first agent with Namzu Install the Namzu kernel, register a provider, make your first model call, and declare a tool with a typed schema and an explicit authority - locally, with no account.
- Read the pipeline that ships your change Follow a change from a pull request through the canonical CI stage set to a gated production deploy - the ordered gates a pipeline runs, why CI is the real gate, and how the deployment model promotes one signed artifact dev to staging to prod.
- Commits and versioning Write Conventional Commits whose type, scope, and breaking marker drive Semantic Versioning; see how release-please turns merged commits into a human-approved Release-PR, changelog, and tag; and how the trunk-based, protected-main model gates every release.
- Manage configuration and secrets Classify every value as a constant, a deployment parameter, or a secret; load configuration through the standard precedence chain, parsed once and fail-closed; and keep secrets out of git by referencing them at runtime and committing only encrypted-at-rest .env files.
- Core model fundamentals Explain why Cogitave Core is one canonical property graph that humans and agents both query, what its node/edge model and identity scheme actually are, and why ADR-0001 chose a labeled property graph as the substrate.
- Inherit the project baseline How a new repository is born on the paved road with its whole ruleset already inherited, how to tell always-on standards from the ones a product type pulls in, and how to find an existing pattern before writing anything new.
- The native MCP interface to Core Read Core's MCP interface as the source of truth for how an agent queries the estate - why the surface is native rather than adapted, the protocol contract it commits to, and the tools and resources you call.
- Navigate the patterns catalog Find the canonical answer to "how does Cogitave do X" in the patterns catalog, read an entry's five fixed sections without confusing the pointer for the policy, and run the discover-before-you-build loop so you start every new piece of work from a named artifact instead of a blank file.
- Observability and reliability Instrument a service with OpenTelemetry-spec traces, metrics, and logs, understand why agent traces are kept as evidence, and reason about reliability through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and the policy that turns a spent budget into a release freeze.
- Open your first pull request Apply the floor, the baseline, and the lifecycle in one hands-on contribution - a signed, Conventional-Commit, docs-complete pull request that passes the gates and stops for human review.
- Operate from Day 1 Describe the Day 1 operating model - the pinned inner loop and the flow-based outer loop - state the parity contract that keeps the inner loop honest, name Cogitave's flow-based ways of working and why ADR-0025 chose it over Scrum, and explain why the human gate stays an exception inside the flow.
- Project products into Core See how content projects into Cogitave Core as typed, content-addressed nodes rather than separate silos, and how the fact registry's cite-not-restate rule and fact-drift scanner keep one owner per fact across the estate.
- Query the estate with Cogitave Query Learn how Cogitave Query resolves a request against the canonical graph - lexical BM25 and dense HNSW vectors fused by Reciprocal Rank Fusion, a graph-aware rerank and ranking signals, and the bounded, read-only query_graph profile agents call directly.
- Reliability and SRE Reason about a service's reliability targets the way the reliability standard does - set an SLO from the user's journey, compute the error budget it buys, and operate the service against that budget with burn-rate alerts, sustainable on-call, a toil cap, and the freeze that stops shipping when the budget runs out.
- Respond to incidents Walk the incident-response flow end to end - detection, severity declaration, single-commander roles, containment through a runbook, communication, recovery, and the blameless postmortem - and see how business continuity and disaster recovery extend the same discipline to a region loss or a destructive event.
- Reuse-first engineering Explain why AI-assisted development diverges without a counter-force, state the discover-before-generate hard rule and what enforces it, and justify a from-scratch decision the way ADR-0003 requires - as a reasoned exception, not a default.
- Run agentic operations Explain what agentic operations means at Cogitave, state the draft-vs-act rule that decides when an agent acts unattended versus when it stops for a human, and name the real fleet of scheduled and operations agents that run the estate.
- Build with the secure SDLC State the security baseline - threat modeling, least privilege, and IAM - and follow the secure development lifecycle that shifts security left, so each stage of a change carries its own security gate instead of a check bolted on at the end.
- Test to the standard and pass the quality gate Learn how Cogitave tests a change - the pyramid/trophy shape, the diff-coverage and mutation gates, flaky-test quarantine, the runnable harness, and the craftsmanship review bar - so you can test your own change and get it through the gate.
- Understand Yuva, the sovereign kernel Why an agent platform builds its own kernel, what a fail-closed boot and formally verified leaves actually prove, and an honest account of Yuva's current status.
- Use the decision guides Learn the shared shape behind Cogitave's database-selection, infrastructure-selection, and model-selection guides - a default, a decision tree, and an ADR-gated deviation rule - and walk a real workload to a justified, recorded choice.
- Work the request lifecycle Move a change through the seven-stage request lifecycle, understand why the write tools only propose, and read the Definition of Done that decides when a request is actually done rather than merely worked on.