# Overview

## Intent

The Learn pages explain LiteSpec, the standard for building one business application from written rules that tools check, to a reader who is new to it: the problem it solves, how its parts fit, how to read the standard, and how a team adopts it. They apply to every project and role, and they state no rules of their own: each rule lives on the standards page they link to. Technical leads and developers read them in order below when they evaluate or adopt LiteSpec, before opening any rules page.

## Reading Order

- [Why LiteSpec Exists](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/why-litespec.md): the problem LiteSpec solves, for a team that is deciding whether LiteSpec fits.
- [How LiteSpec Works](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/how-litespec-works.md): the standard, the records, the model, and the tools, traced through one Claimwick use case.
- [Read the Standard](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/reading-the-standard.md): project selections, page arrangement, and provision IDs; how to find the rules that apply to a project.
- [Records and the Project Model](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/records-and-the-model.md): the four layers, what a project writes down, where each record lives, and what the model builder computes.
- [Reading Tracks](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/reading-tracks.md): which records to read in which order: why before how, one journey end to end, one module end to end, and the structural words.
- [How the Tools Fit Together](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/the-tooling.md): the CLI, the analyzers, and the site, in the order one change moves through them.
- [How LiteSpec Compares](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/how-litespec-compares.md): LiteSpec beside ten other approaches to spec-driven development, and when each fits.
- [Lineage](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/lineage.md): the practices LiteSpec borrows from, the words it takes from each, and what it does differently.
- [Work with Agents](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/working-with-agents.md): how an agent finds the rules, what it decides alone, and what it brings back.
- [Adopt LiteSpec in Steps](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/learn/adopting-litespec.md): adopting LiteSpec by conformance level: the record model at `records`, traceability at `traced`, and the full contract at `full`, with the records path through the tutorial.

## Next

When you are ready to build, follow [Start a Consumer Repository](https://litespec.dev/4.0.0/tutorial/getting-started.md).