# Guides
URL: /docs/alineod/guides

How alineod models a swarm, and how to coordinate, control, and recover one.



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  <Card href="/docs/alineod/guides/how-it-works" title="How it works" description="Runs, spawn trees, agent states, budgets, and the ledger." />

  <Card href="/docs/alineod/guides/fan-out-gather" title="Fan-out and gather" description="Fork workers, wait for their results, and collect them in one agent." />

  <Card href="/docs/alineod/guides/steering-and-pausing" title="Steering and pausing" description="Redirect a running turn, freeze an agent's container, or stop it." />

  <Card href="/docs/alineod/guides/crash-recovery" title="Crash recovery" description="What happens to a live swarm when alineod restarts." />
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