# Agent Barn > Agent Barn is a self-hosted control plane for creating, configuring, running, and monitoring AI agents across Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram. Guides explain Agent Barn product behavior, architecture, operations, and engineering practice. Pilot pages cover applied workflows for law firms and manufacturers. The blog publishes essays on always-on agents, self-hosting, and European regulation. Case studies show how teams run Agent Barn agents in production. ## Pages - [30-day AI agent bake-off: track what each agent costs](https://agentbarn.dev/blog/agent-bake-off-per-agent-costs): Most teams know their total AI bill but not what each agent costs or whether it earns it. How to run a 30-day bake-off with per-agent numbers. - [Brussels has already decided your agents are AI systems](https://agentbarn.dev/blog/eu-ai-act-agents-are-ai-systems): The Commission says AI agents are fully covered by the AI Act and now has an agent incident on file. What that means for companies deploying agents. - [OpenAI needs 7,000 GPUs to find out what its agents did](https://agentbarn.dev/blog/openai-7000-gpus-agent-records): OpenAI is spending months and 7,000 GPUs reconstructing what its agents did. Knowing what your agents did should be bookkeeping, not forensics. - [OpenAI dots proves always-on agents are here](https://agentbarn.dev/blog/openai-dots-always-on-agents): OpenAI dots makes always-on agents a category. For EU companies under NIS2 and the AI Act, the real question is where those agents run and who holds the keys. - [Rogue AI is the best marketing campaign frontier labs never ran](https://agentbarn.dev/blog/rogue-ai-frontier-lab-marketing): The rogue-AI framing makes frontier models sound formidable and shifts blame away from deployment. Agent risk is an access-control problem you can fix. - [Agent Barn blog: notes on AI agents you own](https://agentbarn.dev/blog): Essays and field notes from the Agent Barn team on always-on AI agents, self-hosting, European regulation, and putting supervised agents to work. - [How GG Group Media runs four AI agents with Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/case-studies/gg-group-media): GG Group Media runs four Agent Barn agents across its development workflow, from Slack requests to Jira tasks, code, reviews, and documentation. - [Agent Barn case studies: AI agents at work in real teams](https://agentbarn.dev/case-studies): How teams run Agent Barn in production: the agents they built, how they set them up, what changed, and what they learned along the way. - [Agent Barn vs Agentforce: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/agentforce): Compare Agent Barn and Agentforce on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Ako: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/ako): Compare Agent Barn and Ako on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Beam AI: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/beam-ai): Compare Agent Barn and Beam AI on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Bob: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/bob): Compare Agent Barn and Bob on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Coworker AI: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/coworker-ai): Compare Agent Barn and Coworker AI on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Cyndra: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/cyndra): Compare Agent Barn and Cyndra on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Dust: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/dust): Compare Agent Barn and Dust on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Ema: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/ema): Compare Agent Barn and Ema on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Glean: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/glean): Compare Agent Barn and Glean on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Leme: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/leme): Compare Agent Barn and Leme on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Motion: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/motion): Compare Agent Barn and Motion on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs NanoCo: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/nanoco): Compare Agent Barn and NanoCo on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs OneCLI: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/onecli): Compare Agent Barn and OneCLI on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Saint AGI: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/saint-agi): Compare Agent Barn and Saint AGI on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Sana: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/sana): Compare Agent Barn and Sana on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Slackbot: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/slackbot): Compare Agent Barn and Slackbot on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs TruthBox: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/truthbox): Compare Agent Barn and TruthBox on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Agent Barn vs Viktor: AI platform comparison](https://agentbarn.dev/compare/viktor): Compare Agent Barn and Viktor on agent ownership, deployment, and operations. See the key differences and which approach fits your team. - [Compare Agent Barn with AI agent platforms](https://agentbarn.dev/compare): Compare Agent Barn with AI agent platforms. Explore differences in agent ownership, deployment, and operations to find the right fit for your team. - [AI agents for repetitive legal work | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/for-law-firms): Run supervised legal agents for procurement claims, precedent search, document review, and email intake, with access controls and a full activity history. - [AI agents for manufacturing coordination | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/for-manufacturers): Run AI agents on the coordination work around production: RFQ intake, custom quoting, drawing and nesting checks, and order-status updates. - [Activity, Conversations, and Runtime Telemetry | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/activity-conversations-and-telemetry): Understand Communications-owned Conversations, Ingest-owned Tool Call telemetry, Connection-scoped identity, and visibility through accessible Agents. - [Agent Lifecycle and Configuration | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agent-lifecycle-and-configuration): Create a headless Agent, choose its Runtime and configuration, manage lifecycle transitions and overrides safely, and add independent Communication Connections. - [Communication Connection Access | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/channel-access): Configure Connection-scoped channel, group, server, direct-message, user, role, and mention policies through each Platform Plugin’s supported settings. - [Choose an Agent runtime | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/choose-runtime): Compare Hermes and OpenClaw execution, approval, and runtime transport independently of Communication Connections. - [Communication Connections | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/communication-connections): Add, change, enable, disable, and retire Agent-owned Communication Connections without coupling provider credentials, delivery, or Connection health to the Agent Runtime. - [Configure an Agent | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/configuration): Configure an Agent's model, Hermes approval and progress settings, and pinned behavior. - [Review Agent health and logs | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/health-and-logs): Interpret Agent lifecycle and Runtime health, inspect live and retained Runtime logs, and determine when a failure belongs to a Communication Connection instead. - [Manage the Agent lifecycle | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/lifecycle): Start, pause, restart, and retire an Agent in Agent Barn. Learn which changes need a restart and how to handle runtime failures separately from chat connection problems. - [Agent Restore Points | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/restore-points): Capture, inspect, and restore point-in-time snapshots of an Agent workspace, configuration pins, and state using durable archive jobs. - [Share access to an Agent | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/sharing): Share Agent Access through direct Member assignments or Agent General Access for the Agent and its subordinate Connections, Conversations, Tool Calls, Secrets, Skills, configuration, logs, and costs. - [Chat with an Agent in the dashboard | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/web-chat): Use the experimental dashboard Chat tab, manage user-scoped threads, and understand Agent access and stop-generation behavior. - [Agent Webhooks | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents/webhooks): Trigger Agent runs over authenticated HTTP with signed request verification, idempotency controls, and native platform delivery. - [Agents documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/agents): Configure Agent runtimes, versioned behavior, lifecycle, access, Communication Connections, and experimental dashboard Web Chat. - [API Architecture and Request Boundaries | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/api-architecture): Follow the route, service, repository, tenancy, transaction, migration, and dependency-injection conventions. - [Write and Maintain Architecture Decisions | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/architecture-decision-records): Capture hard-to-reverse technical choices, their trade-offs, consequences, and later supersession. - [Backend Code Standards | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/backend-code-standards): Apply repository-wide layering, HTTP, schema, authorization, style, review, and definition-of-done rules. - [Community guides for Agent Barn operators](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/community): Practical Agent Barn guides for operators, contributors, and teams covering agents, access, integrations, telemetry, architecture, and operations. - [Costs and Spend Attribution | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/costs-and-spend-attribution): Understand stored model-call costs, synchronization, recovery of missing charges, and Organization and Platform reporting boundaries. - [Add an integration | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/add-integration): Learn how to add a tool Integration with credential validation, encrypted persistence, runtime materialization, provider metadata, isolated bundled Skills, web app configuration, and focused tests. - [Add a communication platform | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/add-platform): Learn how to add a Platform Plugin with typed configuration, encrypted Connection credentials, provider admission, Delivery, optional capabilities, registry wiring, diagnostics, and gateway tests. - [Develop against the API | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/api): Learn how to extend Agent Barn’s Product, Ingest, and Communications APIs with correct authentication, Organization and Agent scoping, layering, transactions, migrations, and PostgreSQL-backed tests. - [Contribute templates and Skills | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/contribute-templates-and-skills): Contribute bootstrap Templates and isolated bundled Skills with missing-only seeding, immutable versions, exact Skill pins, scopes, runtime mounts, and review. - [Work with domain events | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/domain-events): Learn how Agent Barn validates, persists, delivers, retries, reconciles, monitors, and tests internal Domain Events. - [System Architecture | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/system-architecture): Map Product API, Ingest, Communications, Web Chat, runtime execution, persisted costs, and Organization and Agent authorization boundaries. - [Test a change | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/testing): Select API, UI, runtime, and Email Worker coverage while distinguishing required checks from automatic CI path selection. - [Develop the web app | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop/web-app): Develop shared feature scopes, Organization-aware data flows, and authenticated Web Chat and Agent log streaming. - [Develop and extend documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/develop): Understand the system, extend supported boundaries, test changes, and contribute safely. - [Domain Events, Outbox, and Delivery | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/domain-events-and-delivery): Add typed business events, transactional Outbox Messages, Event Deliveries, handlers, and safe monitoring. - [Connect a communication platform | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started/connect-a-platform): Connect an Agent to Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, or deployment-enabled Email, or use built-in Web Chat. - [Create your first Organization | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started/create-organization): Create an Agent Barn Organization for your team, become its Owner, select it, and find where its members, model settings, and shared resources are configured. - [Hire your first Agent | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started/hire-first-agent): Create a headless, STOPPED Agent from a versioned Template, choose its Runtime and model behavior, and configure Skills, tool Integrations, and access before starting it. - [Run Agent Barn locally | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started/local-quickstart): Start the local Docker and k3d stack, configure model access, and create an Agent without a GitHub token for runtime builds. - [Verify your Agent | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started/verify-agent): Verify an Agent Barn Agent by checking Runtime health, Communication Connection health, provider delivery, Connection-scoped Conversations, Tool Call telemetry, and cost attribution. - [Get started documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/get-started): Follow the shortest documentation paths from a local environment to a verified first Agent. - [Identity, Organizations, and Tenant Boundaries | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/identity-organizations-and-tenancy): Understand login, invitations, organization membership, tenancy, Platform View, and organization switching. - [Connect Bitbucket | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/bitbucket): Connect Bitbucket Cloud to an Agent Barn Agent with scoped Integration credentials, optional repository defaults, Shared Credentials, the isolated Bitbucket Skill, and aai-cli validation. - [Connect Confluence | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/confluence): Connect Confluence Cloud to an Agent Barn Agent with a scoped or non-scoped Atlassian API token, resolved Cloud ID, space-level permissions, and validation. - [Manage Agent credentials | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/credentials): Add, replace, validate, attach, and remove encrypted Agent Secrets and Shared Credentials for Runtime tool Integrations. - [Connect Firecrawl | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/firecrawl): Connect Firecrawl to Agent Barn as a platform-wide default or per-Agent override for runtime-native web search and page fetching. - [Connect GitHub | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/github): Connect GitHub to an Agent Barn Agent with a scoped personal access token, least-privilege repository permissions, generated aai-cli profiles, and validation. - [Connect Google Workspace | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/google-workspace): Connect Google Workspace to an Agent Barn Agent with a Web application OAuth client, scoped services, read-only or full access, and validated credentials. - [Connect Jira | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/jira): Connect Jira Cloud to an Agent Barn Agent with a scoped or non-scoped API token, resolved Cloud ID, least-privilege project permissions, and validation. - [Connect Pipedrive | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/pipedrive): Connect Pipedrive to an Agent Barn Agent with an encrypted personal API token, optional company endpoint, isolated Pipedrive Skill, generated profile, and aai-cli CRM access. - [Use shared credentials | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/shared-credentials): Create, validate, attach, rotate, and remove encrypted Organization Shared Credentials for eligible manual-entry tool providers. - [Connect SharePoint | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/sharepoint): Connect Microsoft SharePoint to an Agent Barn Agent with delegated OAuth PKCE public client flows via Microsoft Teams, the bundled aai-microsoft Skill, and aai-cli access. - [Connect Zoho | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations/zoho): Connect Zoho Mail to an Agent Barn Agent with a Self Client, read-only OAuth access, encrypted direct or Shared Credentials, the isolated Zoho Mail Skill, and aai-cli email. - [Connect Integrations and Credentials Safely | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations-and-credentials): Configure tool Integrations with Agent Secrets, Shared Credentials, OAuth access, exact Skill requirements, and least-privilege Runtime materialization. - [Integrations documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/integrations): Give Agents controlled access to external tools through Agent Secrets, Shared Credentials, scoped OAuth access, and Runtime-materialized Skills. - [Local Development, Operations, and Releases | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/local-development-and-operations): Understand local services, migrations, runtime images, and separate client-image and hosted-deployment workflows. - [Coordinate a Multi-PR Epic | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/multi-pr-epic-delivery): Keep cross-ticket delivery state accurate without replacing feature docs, ADRs, or the issue tracker. - [Observe Agent Activity | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/activity): Inspect Connection-scoped Conversation history and filter Runtime Tool Calls in Agent Barn, with channel, thread, status, tool-name, date, and pagination controls. - [Communication Diagnostics | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/communication-diagnostics): Diagnose an Agent Barn Communication Connection: provider connectivity versus delivery health, pipeline counts, the content-free journal, delivery timelines, reconnects, and retries. - [Review costs | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/costs): Use filters, charts, and model-call records to investigate Organization costs and understand separate Platform cost oversight. - [Organization Agent settings | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/organization-agent-settings): Manage Organization Agent Settings, model inheritance, allowed models, Agent overrides, Runtime model changes, permissions, and audit events. - [Manage organizations and members | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/organizations-and-members): Manage Organization identity and Memberships: invitations, ownership transfer, tenant isolation, controlled deletion, and the model allowlist. - [Administer the platform | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/platform-administration): Administer Agent Barn from Platform View: global users and invitations, Organization oversight, Platform Privilege, statistics, Event Deliveries, and Platform Templates. - [Manage roles and permissions | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern/roles-and-permissions): Manage permission-backed access to Agent Barn Organizations and Agents with fixed Organization Roles, locked Agent Access Roles, direct assignments, and additive General Access. - [Observe and govern documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/observe-and-govern): Govern Organization Agent defaults and models, Agent activity, Communication Connection health and recovery, costs, access, and platform oversight. - [Platform Administration and Oversight | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platform-administration): Use Platform View for bounded user, Organization, activity, privilege, and Event Delivery oversight. - [Compare Platform Plugin capabilities | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/compatibility): Compare external Platform Plugin ingress, credentials, access policies, and delivery capabilities, with Email setup and built-in Web Chat explained separately. - [Connect an Agent to Discord | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/discord): Connect Discord to an Agent Barn Agent: create a bot, enable the required Gateway Intents, add its token to a Communication Connection, and layer server, channel, user, and role access. - [Connect an Agent to Email | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/email): Give an Agent an Email address, restrict permitted senders, and understand threaded plain-text, reply-only delivery. - [Connect an Agent to Microsoft Teams | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/microsoft-teams): Connect Microsoft Teams to an Agent Barn Agent: create an Azure Bot, add its credentials to a Communication Connection, set the messaging endpoint, and install the Teams app package. - [Set up Slack | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/slack): Connect an Agent to Slack, configure access policies and a default delivery target, and understand replies and scheduled results. - [Connect an Agent to Telegram | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms/telegram): Connect Telegram to an Agent Barn Agent: create a bot with BotFather, add its token to a polling-based Communication Connection, and set group and direct-message policy. - [Platforms documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/platforms): Connect Agents to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Discord, and deployment-enabled Email, or use built-in Web Chat. - [Roles, Permissions, and Agent Access | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/roles-permissions-and-agent-access): Use Organization Roles, Agent Access Roles, explicit assignments, and General Access without leaking resources. - [Runtime Assembly and Deployment | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/runtime-and-deployment): Understand Agent runtime assembly, reply and initiated delivery, scheduled-result routing, and recovery. - [Self-Host the Communications Service | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/communications): Deploy and operate Agent Barn’s separately served Communications process for provider ingress, durable Communication Deliveries, Runtime communication, diagnostics, and outbound replies. - [Configure a self-hosted platform | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/configuration): Configure a self-hosted Agent Barn platform: Product, Ingest, and Communications services, stable keys, PostgreSQL, runtimes, ingress, storage, workers, and monitoring. - [Configure a production deployment | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/configure-production): Configure production networking, secrets, service access, and cost synchronization for a self-hosted Agent Barn deployment. - [Deploy Agent Barn to Kubernetes | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/deploy-kubernetes): Deploy Product, Ingest, Communications, workers, Agent Runtimes, and monitoring to Kubernetes with Helmfile. - [Configure Agent Email | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/email): Configure Cloudflare routing, the inbound Worker, sending access, and environment-specific secrets for Agent Email. - [Manage database migrations | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/migrations): Create, review, apply, verify, and recover Agent Barn migrations for Product, Ingest, Communications, Connection data, and PostgreSQL-backed delivery. - [Monitor the platform | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/monitoring): Monitor Agent Barn services, runtime health, communication delivery, and cost synchronization freshness in a self-hosted deployment. - [Troubleshoot self-hosting | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/troubleshooting): Diagnose Agent Barn local and Kubernetes failures across Product, Ingest, Communications, Connections, Deliveries, Agent Runtimes, providers, and monitoring. - [Upgrade Agent Barn | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting/upgrades): Plan compatible application and runtime rollouts, preserve session history, and distinguish client-image publication from hosted deployment and recovery. - [Self-hosting documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/self-hosting): Plan, configure, and operate Agent Barn on your own Kubernetes infrastructure. - [How Agent Barn Fits Together | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/system-overview): A current map of the Product API, Ingest API, Communications Gateway, web app, Agent runtimes, and deployment boundaries. - [Use Agent overrides | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/agent-overrides): Understand Agent Barn Agent overrides: private per-Agent template drafts, immutable published versions, explicit activation, source updates, and rollback. - [Manage forks and updates | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/forks-and-updates): Create Organization forks through drafts and adopt newer Platform snapshots with explicit Template Updates. - [Skill scopes | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/skill-scopes): Choose the right Agent Barn Skill scope, understand Platform, Organization, and Agent-private visibility, and manage exact version pins and forks safely. - [Manage Skill versions | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/skill-versions): Understand Skill drafts, immutable publications, exact Agent and Template pins, per-Agent recovery, and protected version and lineage deletion. - [Work with Skills | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/skills): Learn how Agent Barn Skills use immutable file snapshots, exact Agent and Template version pins, scope-aware ownership, source updates, and Runtime materialization. - [Manage template versions | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/template-versions): Publish immutable Template versions from drafts, restore historical content, and explicitly update Agent pins. - [Work with templates | Agent Barn documentation](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills/templates): Create and edit Organization Templates with unpublished drafts, explicit publishing, immutable versions, and pinned Skill requirements. - [Templates and Skills documentation | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-and-skills): Compose Agent behavior with scoped Template drafts, explicit publishing, immutable Template and Skill versions, and Agent-private overrides. - [Templates, Versions, Overrides, and Skills | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/templates-versions-and-skills): Understand Template and Skill versions, scoped drafts, Agent overrides, and explicit updates. - [Testing and Verification | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/testing-and-verification): Select API, UI, runtime, migration, Kubernetes, and documentation checks that prove the changed contract. - [Web App Architecture and Data Flow | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/guides/web-app-architecture): Understand shared Template feature scopes, Organization data flow, and authenticated Web Chat and Agent log streaming. - [Agent Barn documentation | Self-hosted AI agents](https://agentbarn.dev/guides): Deploy, configure, and operate self-hosted AI agents with Agent Barn documentation for operators, administrators, and contributors. - [Run your AI agents from one place | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/): Create, configure, run, and monitor AI agents across Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram from one self-hosted control plane. - [The Agent Barn Manifesto | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/manifesto): Why AgentBarn is open source, and how openness creates trust, adoption, integrations, product improvements, distribution, and leverage. - [Pricing: free agent, cloud tiers, and pilot | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/pricing): Agent Barn pricing: a free premade agent on Telegram, Cloud Tier 1 at a one-time $20 with $20 of credits, Cloud Tier 2 at a one-time $100 with $100 of credits, and a one-week $500 Supervised Pilot. - [Privacy policy and cookies | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/privacy-policy): How AAI Labs processes personal data across the Agent Barn website, Agent Barn Cloud, the Free plan, supervised pilots and the open-source software. - [Publishing principles and corrections | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/publishing-principles): How Agent Barn creates, reviews, updates, and corrects its product information, documentation, and setup guidance. - [Agent Readiness Benchmark: score one workflow | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/readiness-benchmark): Score one workflow for AI agent readiness in four minutes. See what it costs you today, your top blockers, and what to fix before a pilot. - [Refund policy for Cloud plans and pilots | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/refund-policy): When and how AAI Labs refunds payments for Agent Barn Cloud plans, Supervised Pilots and model usage. - [Terms of service for Cloud and pilots | Agent Barn](https://agentbarn.dev/terms-of-service): The terms that govern use of the Agent Barn website, Agent Barn Cloud, the Free plan and supervised pilots.