Talon is an agent control plane. It gives you durable runtime state, operational APIs, worker execution, schedules, knowledge, MCP tool bindings, and a browser UI for inspection.

If you are new to Talon, the fastest way to build the right mental model is:

1. understand how Talon works as a system
2. understand the core resources Talon manages
3. run the local stack and inspect it in Sightline
4. build an agent or client against the real contracts

Start here

• How Talon Works for the end-to-end runtime flow
• Runtime Topology for the concrete local stack
• Quickstart for the fastest local loop

What Talon manages

• Namespaces: tenancy and grouping for agents, sessions, schedules, knowledge, and MCP bindings
• Agent templates and agents: reusable specs and runtime instances
• Sessions: durable interaction state, persisted messages, and streamed execution steps
• Schedules: recurring or one-shot dispatch into the worker runtime
• Knowledge and MCP bindings: runtime context and tool surfaces
• Gateway and worker processes: the control-plane API and execution engine
• Sightline: a browser-native operator surface over the same runtime system

Reading order

1. How Talon Works
2. Runtime Topology
3. Resource Model
4. Quickstart
5. Build Your First Agent

Choose your next path

• Building against Talon from code: Build a Client
• Operating Talon locally or in deployment: Operate
• Looking for exact request/response shapes: Reference