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Before you open a single screen, it helps to hold the whole shape of the job in your head. Building in Adopt is really four decisions and one pipeline.
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Your job as a builder

You turn a finance need — “prepare R&D workpapers for each client from their payroll and project files” — into a configured agent that does it reliably and safely. That means four decisions:
  • Where the data comes from — which source, synced into which Doc Store, plus any structured tables.
  • What the agent does — its instructions and the skills it’s allowed to use.
  • Who can see what — which people access the client, and what the agent is allowed to read.
  • When it runs — the schedule, and who reviews the output.

The pipeline you’re assembling

Principles worth internalizing

  • Isolation lives on the Workstream (client). Don’t try to enforce separation anywhere else; scope data and access to the client and it’s guaranteed.
  • Skills declare capability, not access. Enabling a skill lets the agent use it; it doesn’t widen what data the agent can see. Access is separate.
  • The review gate is always on. You configure reviewers, not whether review happens.
  • Templates carry complexity. For a common process, a task template already encodes good instructions and skills — start there and adjust.

Next steps

  1. Quick setup vs Advanced setup
  2. The object model
  3. Create a Workstream