Guides

These are the same day-2 usage guides that ship inside every install package, in docs/guides/. Nine are published here in full; the rest are listed below and open once your instance is running.

Published here

Guide	What it covers
User guide	Setting up providers, models, teams, budgets, and keys from a fresh install; day-to-day use of the console.
User management guide	Creating users, roles, SSO approvals, and RBAC permissions.
Identity guide	Setting up auth providers and identities for LLM and MCP callers.
Guardrails guide	Configuring regex, webhook, and PII-detection guardrails.
MCP servers guide	Registering upstream MCP servers and discovering their tools.
MCP authorization guide	Granting teams access to specific MCP servers and tools.
Pass-through routing	Letting a client supply its own upstream credential.
Client identification guide	How Cortega resolves a caller's identity from a request.
Endpoint Guard deployment guide	Installing and enrolling the Endpoint Guard / AI Verifier native agent.

Ships with your install, not yet published here

Guide	What it covers
Provider interworking guide	Configuring LLM providers and credential sources.
Load balancer guide	Running a load balancer in front of multiple gateways.
Gateway migration guide	Importing an existing LiteLLM gateway's configuration into Cortega with the gwmigrate CLI.
Agentic applications guide	Registering applications for per-app analytics.
ClickHouse low-memory guide	Running the telemetry store on a memory-constrained instance.

For install instructions themselves, see Install.