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# Guide Template

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**Guide Template**\
Use for: multi-phase walkthroughs toward a larger goal — deploying Guardian to production, digitizing a methodology, authoring and publishing a policy. Guides are longer than task pages and are organized into named parts with checkpoints. Each step within a part follows the same conventions as the task template. Guides live in the Guides tab, not the Docs tab.

**Guide Page Title:** *Name the goal, not the tool — e.g. "Digitize a Verra VCS methodology", "Deploy Guardian to production", "Author and publish your first policy"*
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One sentence. Name the role and what they will have accomplished by the end. Example: By the end of this guide, you will have a published Policy Integrity Test running against your policy on mainnet.

#### Who this guide is for

One sentence naming the role and the context in which they would use this guide.

#### What you will accomplish

* Outcome one
* Outcome two
* Outcome three

#### Before you start

* Prerequisite one
* Prerequisite two
* Link to any concept pages the reader should understand first

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#### Part 1: Name of the first major phase

Brief orientation sentence for this part — what it covers and why it comes first.

**Step 1.1 — Action**

What to do and why, in plain language.

**Step 1.2 — Action**

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**Checkpoint**

What the reader should have or see at this point before moving on.

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#### Part 2: Name of the second major phase

Brief orientation sentence.

**Step 2.1 — Action**

**Step 2.2 — Action**

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**Checkpoint**

What the reader should have or see at this point.

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#### Next steps

Where to go from here.

* Guide: the natural follow-on guide
* Task: a specific task introduced in this guide

#### Related

* Concept: background reading
* Reference: specs referenced in this guide