Hydra: the agentic app factory
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A walk-through of Hydra, Conduction's agentic app factory — the full recording is above. When you're ready to build with it, the hands-on tutorial series takes you from zero to a live Hydra run.
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View All TagsHydra tutorial series — Part 7: CI and deployment
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In part 5 you ran Hydra by hand: build the images, run a stage with dev-run.sh, label an issue. That is the right way to learn Hydra, but it is not how it runs day to day. In production nobody starts containers from a terminal. Instead a scheduled flow notices the labelled issue and has each stage run for it, with no one at the keyboard. This part explains that path, where the pre-built images fit in, and the three deployment models behind it.
Hydra tutorial series — Part 1: What is Hydra?
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Recommended first — the OpenSpec tutorial series
Hydra runs on OpenSpec changes. If you're not yet familiar with terms like spec, change, requirement and scenario, take the OpenSpec tutorial series first (parts 1 and 2, roughly 30 minutes together). It will save you a lot of backtracking in the rest of these modules.
Also useful first — the Claude Skills tutorial series
A large part of Hydra's internals leans on Claude Skills: opsx-*, hydra-gate-*, team-*, test-*. If you've never written or read a skill, take part 1 of the Claude Skills tutorial series first (10 minutes). That makes part 4 of this series — where we open up the skill families inside Hydra — a lot easier to follow.
Hydra is Conduction's internal agentic CI/CD platform: a factory that turns OpenSpec changes into code on a feature branch, checked by mechanical gates and, when you ask for it, reviewed by three AI stages. This module explains in ten minutes what Hydra is, why it exists, and how it fits inside our app factory. It is the first part of a seven-part series; by the end you're ready for part 2 on the three pipelines.