diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index c17775474..953ce5725 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Fizzy (Editor) ←── Host registries + EditorAPI ──→ Plugin (register(
 - **`markdown`** — `.md` preview utility plugin.
 - **`archive`** — opens a `.zip` as a mounted folder (the web's "open a vault" path, too).
 - **`devtools`** — the dashboard: where the app's time goes, from `core.profile`, for a person and an agent alike.
+- **`guides`** — every demo the app can play, on the rail: fizzy's tour and each plugin's own, by chapter, through the `demos` service.
 - `shared` — build helpers used across plugins' `static/integration.zig` (not a plugin itself).
 
 **Pixi (pixel-art editor) and Drive (Google Drive as a mount) live outside this repo** as third-party-style plugins ([`fizzyedit/pixi`](https://github.com/fizzyedit/pixi), [`fizzyedit/drive`](https://github.com/fizzyedit/drive)) — they ship and update purely through the plugin store (`docs/PLUGINS.md` §6), with no special treatment in Fizzy itself. **Trust `ls plugins/` and `jj log` over any doc's plugin list.**
diff --git a/build/plugins.zig b/build/plugins.zig
index 2e8d484a8..f7d1b8469 100644
--- a/build/plugins.zig
+++ b/build/plugins.zig
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ pub const markdown = @import("../plugins/markdown/static/integration.zig");
 pub const image = @import("../plugins/image/static/integration.zig");
 pub const archive = @import("../plugins/archive/static/integration.zig");
 pub const devtools = @import("../plugins/devtools/static/integration.zig");
+pub const guides = @import("../plugins/guides/static/integration.zig");
 
 /// Fizzy's own plugins, as entries in the list an application links (`fizzy.plugins`). An entry
 /// with no module is built by fizzy for each executable, wired to that executable's framework.
@@ -24,9 +25,10 @@ pub const entries = struct {
     pub const archive: BundledPlugin = .{ .name = "archive" };
     pub const markdown: BundledPlugin = .{ .name = "markdown" };
     pub const devtools: BundledPlugin = .{ .name = "devtools" };
+    pub const guides: BundledPlugin = .{ .name = "guides" };
 
     /// What fizzy itself links, in its sidebar order.
-    pub const all = [_]BundledPlugin{ @This().workbench, @This().text, @This().image, @This().archive, @This().markdown, @This().devtools };
+    pub const all = [_]BundledPlugin{ @This().workbench, @This().text, @This().image, @This().archive, @This().markdown, @This().devtools, @This().guides };
 };
 
 /// Whether `plugins` links fizzy's own `name`, rather than leaving it out or bringing a module of
@@ -92,6 +94,8 @@ pub fn link(b: *std.Build, w: Wiring, plugins: []const BundledPlugin) Linked {
             archive.addStaticModule(b, w.target, w.optimize, .{ .dvui = w.dvui, .core = w.core, .sdk = w.sdk }, w.consumer)
         else if (std.mem.eql(u8, p.name, "devtools"))
             devtools.addStaticModule(b, w.target, w.optimize, .{ .dvui = w.dvui, .core = w.core, .sdk = w.sdk }, w.consumer)
+        else if (std.mem.eql(u8, p.name, "guides"))
+            guides.addStaticModule(b, w.target, w.optimize, .{ .dvui = w.dvui, .core = w.core, .sdk = w.sdk }, w.consumer)
         else
             std.debug.panic("fizzy: plugin '{s}' has no module and is not one of fizzy's own (`fizzy.plugins`)", .{p.name});
         // A plugin this target does not build (markdown for the native exe on wasm) is left out.
diff --git a/plugins/guides/build.zig b/plugins/guides/build.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a49a0e8f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/build.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+//! Standalone build for the guides plugin — the canonical third-party shape.
+//! `cd plugins/guides && zig build` produces `guides.<dylib|dll|so>`. The fizzy-internal
+//! static-embed build lives separately in `static/` and is driven by the root build.
+const std = @import("std");
+const fizzy = @import("fizzy");
+
+pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
+    const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{});
+    const optimize = b.standardOptimizeOption(.{});
+
+    const plugin = fizzy.plugin.create(b, .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
+    fizzy.plugin.install(b, plugin.lib, .{});
+}
diff --git a/plugins/guides/build.zig.zon b/plugins/guides/build.zig.zon
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18d063bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/build.zig.zon
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+.{
+    .name = .guides,
+    .version = "0.1.0",
+    .minimum_zig_version = "0.17.0",
+    .paths = .{
+        "build.zig",
+        "build.zig.zon",
+        "plugin.zig",
+        "plugin.zig.zon",
+        "src",
+        "static",
+    },
+    .fingerprint = 0x4d7795efb8fc0178,
+    .dependencies = .{
+        .fizzy = .{
+            .path = "../../sdk",
+        },
+    },
+}
diff --git a/plugins/guides/plugin.zig b/plugins/guides/plugin.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5cbe8a80d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/plugin.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+//! Guides: every demo the app can play, a click away (fizzyedit/plans#30). One surface, a view on
+//! the rail (`guides.view`) listing what the `demos` service lists — fizzy's own tour first, then
+//! each a plugin registered (`Host.registerDemo`) — each with its length and chapters. A click on
+//! a guide plays it from the start, a click on a chapter from there; the one playing is marked.
+//!
+//! It is drawn from what any plugin can reach (`sdk.services.demos`), which is the point of it
+//! being a plugin: an app on fizzy bundles it or leaves it out, and one with no demo player gets
+//! a view saying so.
+//!
+//! Commands: `guides.show` reveals the view wherever it lives.
+const std = @import("std");
+const sdk = @import("fizzy_sdk");
+const dvui = @import("dvui");
+const List = @import("src/List.zig");
+
+/// Injected at build time from `plugin.zig.zon`.
+pub const plugin_options = @import("fizzy_plugin_options");
+pub const plugin_id = plugin_options.id;
+
+pub const view_id = "guides.view";
+
+var plugin: sdk.Plugin = .{
+    .state = undefined,
+    .vtable = &vtable,
+    .id = plugin_id,
+    .display_name = plugin_options.name,
+};
+
+const vtable: sdk.Plugin.VTable = .{};
+
+var host_ptr: ?*sdk.Host = null;
+
+pub fn register(host: *sdk.Host) !void {
+    host_ptr = host;
+    plugin.state = @ptrCast(host);
+    try host.registerPlugin(&plugin);
+    try host.registerSurface(.{
+        .id = view_id,
+        .owner = &plugin,
+        .title = "Guides",
+        .icon = .{ .tvg = dvui.entypo.graduation_cap },
+        .keywords = sdk.keywords.ide.sidebar,
+        .scrolls_itself = true,
+        .draw = drawView,
+    });
+    try host.registerCommand(.{
+        .id = sdk.Plugin.commandId(plugin_id, "show"),
+        .owner = &plugin,
+        .title = "Show Guides",
+        .run = cmdShow,
+        .icon = dvui.entypo.graduation_cap,
+    });
+}
+
+fn drawView(_: ?*anyopaque) anyerror!dvui.App.Result {
+    const host = host_ptr orelse return .ok;
+    List.draw(host.getServiceTyped(sdk.services.demos.Api));
+    return .ok;
+}
+
+/// "Show Guides": the view, wherever it lives, its place opened if it was shut.
+fn cmdShow(state: *anyopaque) anyerror!void {
+    const host: *sdk.Host = @ptrCast(@alignCast(state));
+    _ = host.revealSurface(view_id);
+}
diff --git a/plugins/guides/plugin.zig.zon b/plugins/guides/plugin.zig.zon
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a6c136ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/plugin.zig.zon
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+.{
+    .id = "guides",
+    .name = "Guides",
+    .version = "0.1.0",
+    .min_sdk_version = "",
+    .description = "Every demo the app can play, a click away: fizzy's tour and each plugin's own, by chapter.",
+    .tags = .{ "demos", "help" },
+}
diff --git a/plugins/guides/src/List.zig b/plugins/guides/src/List.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cb113da2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/src/List.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+//! The guides view's one list: a row per demo (its title and length), and under it a row per
+//! chapter (its title and where it starts). A row plays from where it says; the demo playing is
+//! drawn as selected. The service refuses a demo over unsaved work or while a live tape drives,
+//! and tells the person why itself.
+const std = @import("std");
+const sdk = @import("fizzy_sdk");
+const dvui = @import("dvui");
+const core = @import("core");
+
+const Api = sdk.services.demos.Api;
+
+pub fn draw(service: ?*Api) void {
+    var scroll = dvui.scrollArea(@src(), .{ .horizontal = .none, .vertical_bar = .auto_overlay }, .{ .expand = .both, .background = false });
+    defer scroll.deinit();
+    var body = dvui.box(@src(), .{ .dir = .vertical }, .{ .expand = .horizontal, .padding = .all(6) });
+    defer body.deinit();
+
+    const api = service orelse {
+        dvui.labelNoFmt(@src(), "This app plays no demos.", .{}, .{ .color_text = .{ .color = dim() } });
+        return;
+    };
+    const demos = api.list();
+    if (demos.len == 0) {
+        dvui.labelNoFmt(@src(), "No guides yet.", .{}, .{ .color_text = .{ .color = dim() } });
+        return;
+    }
+    const playing = api.current();
+    for (demos, 0..) |d, i| {
+        const current = if (playing) |p| std.mem.eql(u8, p, d.name) else false;
+        if (row(i * 1000, d.title, d.ms, current, .guide)) _ = api.play(d.name, 0);
+        for (d.chapters, 0..) |c, j| {
+            // The first chapter is where the guide starts: its row would say the same as the guide's.
+            if (c.at == 0) continue;
+            if (row(i * 1000 + j + 1, c.title, c.at, false, .chapter)) _ = api.play(d.name, c.at);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+const Kind = enum { guide, chapter };
+
+/// A row the width of the view, `title` on the left and `ms` as a time on the right: a guide's
+/// length, or where a chapter starts. True when clicked.
+fn row(id_extra: usize, title: []const u8, ms: u32, selected: bool, kind: Kind) bool {
+    const theme = dvui.themeGet();
+    var button: dvui.ButtonWidget = undefined;
+    button.init(@src(), .{ .draw_focus = true }, .{
+        .id_extra = id_extra,
+        .expand = .horizontal,
+        .margin = .{ .x = if (kind == .chapter) 14 else 0, .y = if (kind == .guide) 4 else 0 },
+        .padding = .{ .x = 6, .w = 6, .y = 3, .h = 3 },
+        .color_fill = .{ .color = if (selected) theme.color(.highlight, .fill) else core.widgets.hoverRestFill(theme.color(.window, .fill_hover)) },
+        .color_fill_hover = .{ .color = theme.color(.window, .fill_hover) },
+        .color_fill_press = .{ .color = theme.color(.window, .fill_press) },
+    });
+    defer button.deinit();
+    button.processEvents();
+    button.drawBackground();
+
+    var line = dvui.box(@src(), .{ .dir = .horizontal }, .{ .expand = .horizontal });
+    defer line.deinit();
+    const text_color: dvui.Color = if (selected) theme.color(.highlight, .text) else if (kind == .chapter) dim() else theme.color(.window, .text);
+    // The time first: a box gives its children room in order, so it always fits and a long title
+    // is the one cut short.
+    var buf: [16]u8 = undefined;
+    dvui.labelNoFmt(@src(), clock(&buf, ms), .{}, .{ .gravity_x = 1, .gravity_y = 0.5, .margin = .{ .x = 8 }, .color_text = .{ .color = if (selected) text_color else dim() } });
+    dvui.labelNoFmt(@src(), title, .{}, .{ .color_text = .{ .color = text_color }, .gravity_y = 0.5 });
+    return button.clicked();
+}
+
+/// `ms` as m:ss.
+fn clock(buf: []u8, ms: u32) []const u8 {
+    const s = ms / 1000;
+    return std.fmt.bufPrint(buf, "{d}:{d:0>2}", .{ s / 60, s % 60 }) catch "";
+}
+
+fn dim() dvui.Color {
+    return dvui.themeGet().color(.window, .text).opacity(0.6);
+}
diff --git a/plugins/guides/static/integration.zig b/plugins/guides/static/integration.zig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfea50b5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/guides/static/integration.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//! Guides plugin — fizzy-internal static-embed + bundled-dylib module graph.
+//! Runs only from the fizzy build root, so paths are single fizzy-relative literals.
+const std = @import("std");
+const helpers = @import("../../shared/build/helpers.zig");
+
+pub const id = "guides";
+pub const installDylib = helpers.installDylib;
+
+const module_path = "plugins/guides/plugin.zig";
+const zon_path = "plugins/guides/plugin.zig.zon";
+
+pub const ModuleImports = struct {
+    dvui: *std.Build.Module,
+    core: *std.Build.Module,
+    sdk: *std.Build.Module,
+    proxy_bridge: ?*std.Build.Module = null,
+};
+
+fn applyImports(module: *std.Build.Module, imports: ModuleImports) void {
+    module.addImport("dvui", imports.dvui);
+    module.addImport("core", imports.core);
+    module.addImport("fizzy_sdk", imports.sdk);
+    if (imports.proxy_bridge) |proxy_bridge| module.addImport("proxy_bridge", proxy_bridge);
+}
+
+/// Static `@import("guides")` module for exe / web / tests.
+pub fn addStaticModule(
+    b: *std.Build,
+    target: std.Build.ResolvedTarget,
+    optimize: std.builtin.OptimizeMode,
+    imports: ModuleImports,
+    consumer: *std.Build.Module,
+) *std.Build.Module {
+    const mod = helpers.addStaticModule(b, .{
+        .import_name = id,
+        .root_source_file = b.path(module_path),
+        .target = target,
+        .optimize = optimize,
+    }, consumer);
+    // Shared with `addDylib` below via `pluginOptionsFor`'s per-manifest memoization — both
+    // link modes must attach the *same* options step (see its doc comment for why).
+    mod.addOptions(helpers.plugin_options_import, helpers.pluginOptionsFor(b, zon_path));
+    applyImports(mod, imports);
+    return mod;
+}
+
+/// Native dynamic library bundled beside the app (`guides.dylib` / `.dll` / `.so`).
+pub fn addDylib(
+    b: *std.Build,
+    target: std.Build.ResolvedTarget,
+    optimize: std.builtin.OptimizeMode,
+    imports: ModuleImports,
+) *std.Build.Step.Compile {
+    const created = helpers.addDylib(b, .{
+        .root_source_file = b.path(module_path),
+        .manifest_zon_path = zon_path,
+        .sdk = imports.sdk,
+        .target = target,
+        .optimize = optimize,
+    });
+    applyImports(created.module, imports);
+    return created.lib;
+}