> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.voltr.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Strategy Setup Guide

> Set up strategies to deploy vault funds to DeFi protocols

After creating your vault, strategy setup is a two-step process:

1. add the adaptor to the vault
2. initialize each strategy you want to deploy to

<Warning>
  Vault creation does not initialize any strategies. Until this step is complete, deposits remain idle.
</Warning>

## Concepts

* **Adaptor**: an on-chain program that knows how to talk to a category of protocols
* **Strategy**: a specific target inside that adaptor, such as one market, vault, or counterparty

## Add The Adaptor

```typescript theme={null}
import { getAddAdaptorInstructionAsync } from "@voltr/vault-sdk";

const addAdaptorIx = await getAddAdaptorInstructionAsync({
  payer: adminSigner,
  admin: adminSigner.address,
  vault: vaultAddress,
  adaptorProgram: adaptorProgramAddress,
});
```

## Initialize The Strategy

```typescript theme={null}
import { getInitializeStrategyInstructionAsync } from "@voltr/vault-sdk";

const initStrategyIx = await getInitializeStrategyInstructionAsync({
  payer: adminSigner,
  manager: managerAddress,
  vault: vaultAddress,
  strategy: strategyAddress,
  adaptorProgram: adaptorProgramAddress,
  instructionDiscriminator,
  additionalArgs: new Uint8Array(),
  remainingAccounts: [
    // protocol-specific accounts
  ],
});
```

## Do It From The CLI

The exact `strategy`, discriminator, and remaining accounts are adaptor-specific. Rather than wiring them by hand, the [`sdk-scripts`](https://github.com/voltrxyz/sdk-scripts) CLI derives them for you from your vault profile. Add the adaptor once, then initialize each strategy:

```bash theme={null}
# 1. Register the adaptor on the vault (admin). Defaults to Kamino; pass --adaptor-program for others.
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute vault:add-adaptor

# 2. Initialize a strategy (manager). One command per integration:
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute kamino:market:init   # Kamino lending market
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute kamino:kvault:init   # Kamino vault
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute spot:swap:init       # Jupiter swap
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute spot:earn:init       # Jupiter Earn
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute trustful:arbitrary:init
pnpm cli -- --profile configs/my-vault.json --mode execute trustful:curve:init
```

See [CLI & Scripts](/vault-owners/operations/cli-and-scripts) for profile setup and transaction modes, and [Supported Integrations](/vault-owners/strategies/integrations) for the full command surface. To build these instructions in your own code instead, the programmatic [examples](https://github.com/voltrxyz/sdk-scripts/tree/main/examples) have one file per `*-init` action.