Hands-on lessons for someone new to HIPPO. Work through them in order; each one ends with something running on your machine.
These are for learning. When you already know what you want to accomplish, the how-to guides are the faster route.
- Guard your first command — about five minutes. Run a command under supervision, read what HIPPO tells it about the machine, and confirm that guarding changes nothing about how the command behaves.
- Coordinate two tasks through one budget — about ten minutes. Turn on reservation coordination, run two owners at once against one shared budget, and see an impossible request rejected.
- macOS or Linux on
amd64orarm64. Native Windows is not supported. - Go 1.26.1, if you are running from a source checkout.
Neither tutorial requires a release download; both use the tracked ./hippo bootstrap, which
compiles and caches the CLI on first use.
- How-to guides for a goal you already have.
- Explanation for why HIPPO is built this way.
- Reference for exact flags, codes, and schemas.