Useful factory links for you-agent-factory

What this list covers

A short factory-focused reading path for you-agent-factory operators: CLI and repository entry points, supported runtimes, workflow techniques, MCP and dynamic workflows, and a few ecosystem reads. It is not a second docs sidebar, not a Model Atlas or attention-reference dump, and not a benchmark or paper-download mirror.

CLI and repository

• CLI documentation — install, first-run, and the day-to-day you commands operators use to start and inspect factory work.
• Install documentation — platform install paths when you need the install script or package steps without the full CLI reference.
• Run your first factory — a first successful run before you specialize into loops, review passes, or dynamic workflows.
• What is you-agent-factory — product shape: file-first workflows, persistent agent work, and why a lightweight factory exists.
• you-agent-factory on GitHub — source, releases, and install scripts for the CLI binary.

Harnesses

• Harness support — which agent runtimes the factory can drive and how those attachments behave across a long-running run.
• Harness concept — the stable definition of a harness as the runtime attachment the factory orchestrates.
• Cursor Agent docs — Cursor agent surface when that runtime is the attachment you are wiring into factory work.
• Claude Code docs — Claude Code as another common agent runtime operators attach through harness support.

Workflow techniques

• Ralph — one-story-per-iteration execution against a product-requirements backlog.
• Writer-reviewer — a write pass followed by an explicit review pass instead of a single unchecked generation.
• Planner-executor — separate planning from execution when the work needs a durable plan before agents act.
• Using you-agent-factory for loops — how to run loop-shaped factory work without reverse-engineering the runtime.
• Write-review loops — the guide path for write-then-review factory workflows.
• Loop, worktree, and compaction — the concepts behind iteration, isolated worktrees, and keeping long runs within context limits.

MCP and dynamic workflows

• MCP documentation — how Model Context Protocol tools show up inside factory workflows.
• Dynamic workflows — workflows whose shape is assembled at runtime rather than fixed ahead of time.
• Cursor dynamic workflows guide — Cursor-oriented dynamic workflow setup on top of the factory.
• Model Context Protocol — the protocol home page when you need the external MCP contract behind the factory MCP docs.

Relevant ecosystem reading

• Comparing agent factories — practical tradeoffs across you-agent-factory, custom scripts, Gas Town, DBOS, Dagster, N8N, and Temporal.
• Gas Town — an opinionated agent orchestration alternative useful when comparing factory shapes.
• Temporal docs — durable workflow semantics when recovery guarantees outweigh a lightweight file-first factory.
• DBOS docs — a lighter durable-workflow path among engines that still emphasize durable execution.
• Dagster docs — DAG-shaped data and pipeline work, useful contrast when agent loops are cyclic rather than acyclic.
• Claude Code best practices — operator-facing guidance for a common agent runtime used with factories.