Structure
Social Fabric structure horizon
Infrastructure

How Social Fabric supports local-first systems, field operations, and resilient runtime surfaces

Social Fabric supports infrastructure through local runtime, Home Assistant delivery paths, device orchestration, mesh transport, field operations, and the principal-based agent services that help communities coordinate real work without abandoning trust and review boundaries.

Definition

Infrastructure in Social Fabric includes both physical and digital operating systems: nodes, devices, automation, communications, transport, field tooling, and the runtime surfaces that keep local community work possible.

Realms of tending
ShelterSystemsGovernance

This page is generated from the editable artifact in `services/sf-portal/artifacts/supportAreas.ts`.

Keep this page grounded in actual runtime surfaces and local-first system behavior.
Avoid generic AI language; agents are governed actors in the platform.
Core lanes
01

Local-first runtime

The platform is designed to operate locally first, with edge coordination and degraded-mode continuity before cloud dependence.

02

Devices, automation, and transport

ESPHome, sensors, automation surfaces, LibreMesh, MeshCore, Meshtastic, and sneaker-net exchange support local resilience and field use.

03

Agent services with governance

Local and cloud agent services can assist with workflows and reasoning, but every agent is a principal operating under delegated rights, provenance requirements, and review boundaries.

04

Site and shelter operations

Infrastructure also includes the local systems needed to support homes, sites, camps, vehicles, and place-based operations where community life actually happens.

Source-backed now
Local runtime through the sf-portal and related platform services
Home Assistant delivery path and local-first deployment framing in architecture docs
Trust and governance framing for agent principals and bounded automation
Federation model and shared-vs-tenant boundary documentation
Building next
Deeper public pages for mesh, devices, and edge-node patterns
Richer operator-facing site and shelter operations narrative
Expanded visual explanation of local-and-cloud agent routing