Guides
Each guide completes one task. It assumes you know the basics from the quickstart and the concepts, and it ends with the reference pages for what you used. Where a task has equivalent surfaces, they are tabs on one page.
The guides sit in four groups. Author a service is the sequence a service is written in: the workflow, the channel, the connectors, the offline tests, and the versioned rollout. Extend Orion is for the two things a definition cannot express. A compiled codec ships as a plugin; a trained model is served from a bucket. Author with AI hands the authoring to an assistant. It holds the Claude Code session, the agent skill, a prompt pack for any LLM, and four worked examples. Patterns and integrations holds the reusable workflow shapes and the integrations around them: Kafka, schedules, CI/CD and the Console.
| If you need to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Write the logic | Author a workflow |
| Expose it, and guard the door | Configure a channel |
| Reach a database or an API | Connect a database or API |
| Prove it before it serves | Test a workflow offline |
| Ship a change safely | Version and roll out changes |
| Add a function Orion does not have | Build a plugin |
| Run a trained model on the hot path | Serve a model |
| Let an assistant do the authoring | Build a service with Claude Code |
| Consume a topic, or run on a clock | Consume from Kafka, Run work on a schedule |
| Promote through a pipeline | CI/CD with packages |
Last verified 14 September 2026