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How-to

Step-by-step guides to doing things with a SpanDock server and its clients.

How-to
Let Nova walk you through a docs page
Some SpanDock docs pages have a short video guide from Nova. How to play one, use its controls, replay it, and turn the guides off for the whole site.
16 October 20264 min read
- #Tutorials
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Can another company's computer reach your server? Isolation, hop by hop
The seven checks a connection passes before it reaches a SpanDock server, which ones stop a stranger or another customer, and how to try it in the lab.
14 October 20264 min read
How-to
Keep AI spend in check with per-person budgets and SpanDock Mind
Turn on the SpanDock model proxy, give each person a budget, choose what happens at the limit, and see what was spent and saved.
14 October 20264 min read
How-to
Get told when a server needs you: notifications on your account dashboard
Connect a SpanDock server's notifications to your spandock.com dashboard, choose which kinds to see, and send a test. In every plan.
14 October 20263 min read
- #Observability
- #Tutorials
How-to
Write guardrails that keep secrets and personal data out of prompts
Add two or three SpanDock guardrails for secrets, personal data and your own patterns, enforce them on every computer, and check that they work.
14 October 20264 min read
How-to
Set up the MCP gateway and choose your first connectors
Give every computer's AI tools one governed MCP server: add two or three connectors read-only, set permissions and approvals, and check it works.
14 October 20265 min read
How-to
Install a server and pair your team's computers: server, satellite and client
The three SpanDock roles explained, then a first install: choose the mode, activate the server, configure a tool and pair your team's computers.
14 October 20265 min read

How-to

Let Nova walk you through a docs page

Can another company's computer reach your server? Isolation, hop by hop

Keep AI spend in check with per-person budgets and SpanDock Mind

Get told when a server needs you: notifications on your account dashboard

Write guardrails that keep secrets and personal data out of prompts

Set up the MCP gateway and choose your first connectors

Install a server and pair your team's computers: server, satellite and client

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