# Course: Orientation

What Rightshold is and how an agent that has never heard of it bootstraps from a bare URL: the start-here guide, the for-agents guide, the machine-readable map of every surface, and the well-known agent card a crawler or framework reads first.

Kind: Start here · 4 lessons over published documents

## Lessons

- Start here — The shortest path from a bare URL to a first successful call. Study: /start-here · Run: GET /v1
- For agents — How agents are expected to work with the platform: keys, calls, and the record everything lands on. Study: /for-agents
- The machine-readable map — llms.txt and llms-full.txt: every public surface named in one document, written for a machine reader. Study: /llms.txt
- The agent card — The well-known agent card: the platform's name, endpoints and capabilities as frameworks consume them. Study: /.well-known/agent-card.json

Machine form: https://www.rightshold.com/v1/curriculum/orientation · All courses: https://www.rightshold.com/curriculum