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# User Guide

What Context Fabric manages, and how the context reaches an agent.

Context Fabric is a service whose goal is to manage and expose context for coding agents. The scope of the information it manages is **slow-moving, general project context**: architectural information, organisational standards, context derived from project documentation, PRs and issue trackers, tribal knowledge, repository responsibilities and infrastructural details.

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Context Fabric by design **does not** provide semantic, on-line indexing of code. That is best served by tools which sit right next to the coding agent and are aware of the current changes in the working tree.
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The context is served through two mechanisms:

* **upfront context** via an `AGENTS.md` file, which can be referenced in the coding agent's system prompt
* **on-demand context** served via MCP servers and a shared filesystem mount

Interactions with Context Fabric are predominantly done by coding agents. Some upfront setup is needed, through the UI or the API, to configure the modules to a project's needs. Both are part of your deployment; the API is documented by a Swagger UI at `/api/docs/` on the same host.

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**Recommended setup**: start by enabling the Architecture, Wiki and Memory modules, then set up the integration with the Orchestrator or a local coding agent.
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