Part 02 · How-to guides
Get one task done
Steps in order, with the result you should see after each one.
Part opener · for people who already run Pulse Mesh
A guide does not teach. It names the task, states what you need, and gives the steps in order, with the result you should see after each one. Background belongs in the Concepts part and exact facts in the Reference part; a guide links to both instead of repeating them.
- Install pms outside the workspace: the three binaries on your path.
- Run the daemon as a service: flags, launchd, systemd, and what a restart costs.
- Capture envelopes and query them: the basket and the three ways to ask it.
- Use the MCP server from an agent: register
pms-mcpand try it by hand. - Inspect and clean shared memory: read a ring, remove what a crash left.
- Troubleshoot: the errors a user meets and their remedies.
- Add a stage to a ring: where a stage goes and what declares it.
Tuning the UDP transport, writing a language binding and running the smoke bench are in the standard’s book.