Resources & How-Tos
Learn how to get the most out of Stride with our guides and tutorials.
Creating Your First Board
Learn how to create and configure a new Stride board for your team or project.
Understanding Board Columns and Workflow
Discover how columns help organize your tasks and create efficient workflows.
Adding Your First Task
A step-by-step guide to creating tasks with all the essential fields.
Adding Team Members to Your Board
Learn how to add collaborators to your board and set their access permissions.
Using Stride With a Team
Coordinate multiple developers and their AI agents on the same board by assigning goals to specific people.
Managing Board Settings
Rename a board, share it read-only with every signed-in user, choose which task fields show, and manage labels.
Finding Work With Search and Filters
Search a board by title or ID, filter it by type, priority, assignee or label, share the filtered view, and use the keyboard shortcuts.
Editing Many Cards at Once
Select several cards on a board, then move, assign, label or archive them in one step.
Archiving Tasks
Take finished work off a board, find it again in the archive, restore or delete it, and export it as CSV.
Managing Your Account
Change your name, email and password, see how single sign-on applies to you, and delete your account when you no longer need it.
Setting Up Two-Factor Authentication
Protect your account with a 6-digit code from an authenticator app, and keep the recovery codes that get you back in.
Free and Paid Boards
What makes a board paid, the three-person limit on free boards, and the features that show "Available to organizations".
Working in a Workspace
Switch between your Organization's workspaces, see who is in each one, and, as an org-admin, invite people, move boards in and export a workspace.
Accepting an Invitation
Open the link from an invitation email, join a workspace or a board, and find out what to do when a link doesn't work.
Administering Your Organization
For org-admins: open the Organization console, see your details, remove members, and create, rename and archive workspaces.
Reading the Organization Audit Log
For org-admins: find security events in your Organization's audit log, filter them, and export them as CSV or JSON.
Setting Your Organization's Security Policy
For org-admins: require two-factor authentication for every member, choose a grace period, and decide how long audit events are kept.
Setting Up Single Sign-On
For org-admins: verify your email domains, connect an OpenID Connect or SAML identity provider, and let your people sign in with it.
Provisioning Users With SCIM
For org-admins: let your identity provider add people, keep workspace memberships in step with its groups, and remove access when it deprovisions someone.
Setting Up Hook Execution
Configure client-side hooks for automated workflows when AI agents claim and complete tasks.
Configuring API Authentication
Set up API tokens for secure access to the Stride API from your applications.
Understanding Claim/Complete Workflow
Master the task lifecycle with claiming, completing, and review workflows for AI agents.
Debugging Hook Failures
Troubleshoot common hook execution issues and learn best practices for reliable automation.
Writing Effective Tasks for AI Agents
Learn how to write clear, actionable tasks that AI agents can understand and complete successfully.
Monitoring Task Progress
Track what AI agents are working on and understand task status throughout the workflow.
Reviewing Completed Work
Learn how to effectively review work completed by AI agents and provide helpful feedback.
Organizing Tasks with Dependencies
Use dependencies to ensure tasks are completed in the right order and manage complex projects effectively.
Using Complexity and Priority Effectively
Learn how to use complexity and priority settings to manage work and set expectations.
Reading a Task's Details
What each section of a finished agent task means, and how to use the test matrix and the diff when you review the work.
Commenting and Mentioning
Discuss a task in its comments, mention a teammate so they're notified, and edit or delete what you wrote.
Watching Your Agents
See what every agent is doing across your boards, spot stuck work and at-risk targets, and step in with Reassign or Reprioritize.
Your Work Across Boards
See every open task assigned to you, across all your boards, in one list with the most urgent first.
Planning With Targets
Group goals from any of your boards under a dated target, follow its progress and status, and archive it when it's done.
Staying Informed With Notifications
What Stride notifies you about, the bell and the notifications page, choosing what reaches you, the weekly digest, and unsubscribing from email.
Connecting Webhooks, Slack and Discord
Send a board's task events to your own service as signed webhooks, or as messages in a Slack or Discord channel.
Connecting an MCP Client
Point Claude Code or another MCP client at Stride's MCP server so an agent can find, claim and complete tasks through tools.
Using the Metrics Dashboard
Get an overview of your board's performance with the metrics dashboard, showing throughput, cycle time, lead time, and wait time at a glance, and, on AI-optimized boards, compliance.
Tracking Throughput
Measure how many tasks your team completes over time and identify trends in delivery velocity.
Understanding Cycle Time
Measure how long tasks take from the moment work starts until completion, and find opportunities to speed up delivery.
Understanding Lead Time
Measure the total time from when a task is created until it is completed, capturing the full lifecycle from idea to delivery.
Understanding Wait Time
Identify where tasks are sitting idle with wait time metrics, covering both backlog wait and review wait.
Workspace Metrics and Compliance
See flow metrics across all your boards on the workspace Metrics page, and check how agents follow the workflow on a board's Compliance page.