Read the source truth.

Start here

• Install & first missionWindows quick start, Linux quick start, LXC, Docker
• What is free, and what is a subscriptionThe app is free. FORAGER and MICROMOUND are subscriptions. Here is where the line is
• Ant execution frameworkCOLONY: the twelve roles, runtime classification, execution gates
• Approval lifecycleOne approval queue, one lifecycle — nothing applies itself
• What FORAGER isFORAGER: files in, knowledge out, every statement traceable to its source
• What MICROMOUND isMICROMOUND: your own hardware, with limits you set
• PLAN — measured current stateWhere the colony measurably is, gap by gap
• Deployment guideProxmox, systemd, Docker, and Windows-service operations

How these docs work

Formicaria is one application built from three engines, and they live in one repository: COLONY, the assistants, in modules/anthill, FORAGER in modules/forager, and MICROMOUND in runtimes/micromound. Each engine keeps its documentation beside the code it describes, and the two are versioned together. This site republishes a curated set of those documents on every release — the install guides, the architecture contracts, the measured project state, the operations guides, and every architecture decision record. Each page names the file it was rendered from, as a path from the repository root, and the release it was rendered at. The README and the changelog also ship inside every download, so an installed colony carries its own install guide and release history.

The sections below follow the product. COLONY comes with the free app; FORAGER and MICROMOUND are subscription modules, and What is free, and what is a subscription says exactly where that line is.