narrow highway · setup

Operator setup checklist.

What this instance has running and what it doesn't. ✓ means configured. ○ means available but not yet wired up by you. Each row links to the recipe for filling that slot.

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configured
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optional / unset
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engine version
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health

Engine substrate

the four gates and the audit chain — always-on by design

✓ /identity Canonical doctrine on every agent-facing surface. Always available. Edit src/concordance_engine/__init__.py · view
✓ /llms.txt AI-agent discovery surface — doctrine + endpoint inventory. view
✓ /ledger SHA-256 chained audit log. The well's content layer. view · integrity check
✓ /chain/since Federation endpoint — peers can concordance fetch from this instance. view

Substrate channels you can opt into

each is independent — turn on one, none, or all

○ tor onion Engine reachable at a .onion address that survives DNS hijacking + ISP blocks. set CONCORDANCE_TOR_ONION · recipe
○ email-in Forward an email address; body becomes a seed. set CONCORDANCE_EMAIL_INBOUND · recipe
○ telegram bot Allow-listed Telegram capture bot. set CONCORDANCE_TELEGRAM_HANDLE + run telegram_bot.py with token
○ lora mesh Compact wire packets over license-free sub-GHz radio (Meshtastic). set CONCORDANCE_LORA_FREQ + run meshtastic_bridge.py
○ nostr publication Publish sealed precedents to Nostr relays. set CONCORDANCE_NOSTR_NPUB · run nostr_publish.py as cron
○ ipfs pinning Content-addressed durable distribution via local ipfs daemon. set CONCORDANCE_IPFS_GATEWAY · run ipfs_pin.py sync
○ mailing list digest Email digest of newly-sealed precedents to a subscriber list. set CONCORDANCE_MAILING_LIST · run digest_mail.py as cron
○ /speak — voice ElevenLabs TTS proxy. Returns audio/mpeg in the configured voice. set both ELEVENLABS_API_KEY + ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID
○ peer registry path Durable list of known peer instances for cross-node trust sync. Defaults to data/peers.json. set PEER_REGISTRY_PATH (optional override)
○ trust index directory Per-domain JSON files accumulating independent instance confirmations. Defaults to data/trust_index/. set TRUST_INDEX_DIR (optional override)
○ offline queue directory Durable retry queue for verifications attempted while offline. Defaults to data/offline_queue.jsonl. set OFFLINE_QUEUE_DIR (optional override)
○ instance key path Ed25519 keypair for packet signing and instance identity. Auto-generated on first boot at ~/.concordance/instance_key.json. set CONCORDANCE_KEY_PATH to override location
○ fetch upstream A remote engine this instance pulls precedents from. set CONCORDANCE_FETCH_REMOTE · run concordance fetch as cron

External assets you bring

these aren't environment variables — they're physical or installed

○ meshtastic (pip) Required for the LoRa bridge. The engine ships the wire format; the bridge needs the radio driver. pip install meshtastic + USB serial radio (~$30 hardware)
○ pynostr (pip) Required for Nostr publication. pip install pynostr
○ ipfs daemon Required for IPFS pinning. Runs separately from the engine. brew install ipfs / apt install kubo + ipfs daemon
○ tor Required for the onion service. Runs separately from the engine. brew install tor / apt install tor + edit torrc