# Tested kits and draft kits

> A tested kit comes from a recipe a coding agent built from start to finish. A draft kit is assembled for your own idea and nobody has built it yet. What that means for you.

Source: https://agentgid.com/docs/kits/tested-vs-draft/ · Updated 2026-10-14

**A tested kit** comes from a recipe that a fresh coding agent built from start to finish, from the kit files alone, before the recipe was listed. **A draft kit** is assembled for your own idea in the kit builder; nobody has built it yet, so you check more yourself.

## Tested kits

There are 8 tested recipes today, listed on [Project kits](https://agentgid.com/build/kits/).

- **How they are tested.** The agent got only the kit files in a clean sandbox, had to build the project and wrote down everything in the brief that was wrong, missing or unclear. Those findings went back into the recipe.
- **What the record shows.** Each recipe page has a section **What happened when an agent built from it**: every build, how many lines of the definition of done were met, what was reported, and what nobody has checked yet.
- **Checked every week.** AgentGid checks every recipe each week, without a model: the pinned packages still exist, the Python install lines resolve together, and the links in the brief open. The recipe page says when it was last checked.
- **Your choices.** If you change a part or an answer, the kit is no longer exactly the tested one. The brief says which parts differ, so your agent knows where to be careful.

Matching your goal to a recipe is a lookup, not a model call, so the same request always gives the same kit.

## Draft kits

Press **✦ Create my own kit** in the [kit builder](https://agentgid.com/build/) and describe any project.

- A model splits your goal into jobs, in about 20 seconds. The parts for those jobs still come only from AgentGid's catalogs, never from the model's memory.
- A job with no fitting part in the catalogs is shown as **Not in AgentGid's catalog yet**.
- Read **Check these yourself** at the bottom of a draft before you start, and expect to fix a step or two.
- Creating a kit needs a free account: up to 5 a day. Each kit you create goes to [My kits](https://agentgid.com/account/#kits) in your account.

## Which to use

| | Tested kit | Draft kit |
|---|---|---|
| Built by a coding agent before you got it | Yes, with a record | No |
| Where the parts come from | AgentGid's catalogs | AgentGid's catalogs |
| Who decides the jobs | The recipe | A model, from your description |
| Account needed | No | Yes |

When a tested recipe is close to your idea, start from it and [change the parts](https://agentgid.com/docs/kits/change-parts/) you need.