# Guides

> Step-by-step guides for building on Ownrecord.

Guides walk you through a complete task from start to finish. New guides are added as the features they describe ship.

- [Building an agent on Ownrecord](https://ownrecord.io/docs/guides/building-an-agent.md): How an AI agent operates Ownrecord safely, from choosing credentials and handling approvals to working compliance tasks over MCP, with a safety checklist.
- [Connect an MCP client](https://ownrecord.io/docs/guides/mcp-quickstart.md): Connect Claude or any other MCP client to Ownrecord with a test-mode organization API key, remotely or through the local @ownrecord/mcp server.
- [Metering high-frequency usage with the SDK](https://ownrecord.io/docs/guides/lease-manager.md): Use the TypeScript SDK's LeaseManager to charge thousands of small usages a minute against a customer's prepaid wallet, with local metering, batched settles, renewals and a final settle on shutdown.
- [Mollie as your processor or failover](https://ownrecord.io/docs/guides/connecting-mollie.md): Take payments with Mollie, alone or as the failover for Stripe. Connect an API key or an organization access token, assign it to your brands, run a test checkout, and set up reconciliation.
- [List your app for every organization](https://ownrecord.io/docs/guides/listing-an-app.md): For partners. Register an app, accept the Partner and App Terms, apply for listing with your publisher identity, privacy policy, security questionnaire and scope justifications, and keep the listing as your app changes.