Recipes

This section bundles the how-to and what-matters parts of the guide.

• End-to-end recipe — a concrete stage-by-stage recipe for building a strong open-style LLM.
• What matters most — distilled lessons across the whole pipeline.
• Checklists — per-stage checklists for pretraining, SFT, preference, tool use, and deployment.

Use these as the practitioner's view onto the rest of the wiki: when you're actually executing, follow the recipe, refer back to detailed pages as needed, and use the checklists at each stage gate.