---
title: "Foundations"
description: "The core concepts behind OrchestKit — skills, agents, hooks, and how they compose."
canonical: "https://orchestkit.yonyon.ai/docs/foundations"
---

# Foundations

The core concepts behind OrchestKit — skills, agents, hooks, and how they compose.

import { Card, Cards } from 'fumadocs-ui/components/card';

The concepts everything else builds on. Start here if you want to understand what the plugin actually does before wiring it into a project.

<Cards>
  <Card
    title="Overview"
    description="What OrchestKit is, and what problem it solves."
    href="/docs/foundations/overview"
  />
  <Card
    title="Skills, agents, hooks"
    description="The three component types and when each one applies."
    href="/docs/foundations/skills-agents-hooks"
  />
  <Card
    title="Agent attribution"
    description="How work is credited across sub-agents and sessions."
    href="/docs/foundations/agent-attribution"
  />
  <Card
    title="MCP servers"
    description="Connecting external tools through the Model Context Protocol."
    href="/docs/foundations/mcp-servers"
  />
  <Card
    title="Choosing a plugin"
    description="How OrchestKit compares to other Claude Code plugins."
    href="/docs/foundations/choosing-a-plugin"
  />
</Cards>