> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rippletide.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome

> Introduction to Rippletide

Rippletide adds an authority layer that validates, constrains, or blocks agent actions at runtime before they impact real systems or customers.

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## Quick Start with Rippletide

<h3 className="toc-only">Evaluate agent responses (Eval CLI) </h3>
<h3 className="toc-only">Bring the right context (Context Graph)</h3>
<h3 className="toc-only">Make your agent deterministic (Decision runtime)</h3>

<Steps>
  <Step
    title={
<>
  Don't know if your agent can move to production?
  <br />
  Eval: Validate before you ship
</>
}
  >
    Plug your agent into our CLI and Rippletide auto-generates test questions to evaluate its responses.

    Rippletide spots hallucinations by fact-checking each output and suggests improvements when sources are missing.

    **When to use it:** Before every deployment, in CI pipelines, and during development to catch regressions. Activate runtime filters once deployed.

    [Get started with Eval →](/docs/evaluation_overview)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Context Graph: Bring the right context for a more predictable agent">
    A persistent context graph that stores facts, decisions, preferences, and entity relationships across conversations. Your agents remember what matters without re-prompting.

    **When to use it:** When your agents need to recall past interactions, share context across sessions, or maintain structured knowledge about users, products, or projects.

    [Explore the Context Graph →](/docs/mcp/overview)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Decision runtime: Build deterministic agents">
    Structure your agent's knowledge as a hypergraph of Q\&A pairs, tags, actions, and state transitions. Decisions are handled by a deterministic reasoning engine, not probabilistic generation.

    **When to use it:** When you need less than 1% hallucination rates, full explainability, and 100% guardrail compliance.

    [Build an agent →](/docs/hypergraph_overview)
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Why Rippletide?

|                    | Without Rippletide           | With Rippletide               |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| **Hallucinations** | Variable, hard to control    | Less than 1% by design        |
| **Memory**         | Lost between conversations   | Persistent context graph      |
| **Guardrails**     | Prompt-based, easy to bypass | Engine-level, 100% compliance |
| **Explainability** | Black box                    | Every decision is traceable   |
| **Evaluation**     | Manual spot checks           | Automated, CI-ready testing   |

Rippletide demonstrated strong measured performance on a range of use cases: customer support (from 85% to 96% resolution), deterministic UI for coding agents, credit agents, project manager agents and others.

## What's Next?

Explore the three pillars of Rippletide:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Eval" icon="chart-line" href="/docs/evaluation_overview">
    Evaluate your agent hallucinations, and learn how to improve your agent
  </Card>

  <Card title="Context Graph" icon="diagram-project" href="/docs/mcp/overview">
    Always bring the right context to your agent to make it more predictable
  </Card>

  <Card title="Decision runtime" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/docs/hypergraph_overview">
    Build deterministic agents with less than 1% hallucination rate
  </Card>
</CardGroup>