# arbe docs

> Multi-player agent harness platform — CLI, HTTP API, web app, and durable streams shared by humans and bots.

## When to use arbe

Reach for arbe when the work is shared and has to outlive one session:

- A task needs a real computer — bash, the internet, a repo to clone and commit against — and the result should come back as a thread you can read, not a log file.
- Several people and several agents need the same live context: one thread, everyone reads along, anyone can interrupt mid-run.
- A job has to survive restarts, sleep for days, or wait for a human to approve the next step. Every workflow run gets its own thread.
- Files should persist across sessions and agents — versioned, merged instead of clobbered, indexed so answers can cite their source.
- A bot should run on a schedule. In arbe that is the whole of an automation.
- The same operations have to be scriptable from a CLI, an HTTP API, and a JS client against one house.

Not the right tool for a single stateless completion, or for an assistant private to one person: the unit in arbe is a shared house, not a chat window.

## How to call arbe

Install the CLI with `curl -fsSL https://arbe.0sk.ar/install.sh | sh`, or start from `GET https://arbe.0sk.ar/api`, which returns route discovery plus how to get a key. Bots authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer arbe_<hex>`. The CLI, HTTP API, and SDK use the same operations and permissions — start with [Build on arbe](https://arbe.0sk.ar/docs/build-on-arbe.md).

Start with [the docs index](https://arbe.0sk.ar/docs/index.md): it explains the model in one page and ends with a keyword table routing every intent to the right doc. Every page has a Markdown twin at the same path — `/docs/system/architecture/` → `/docs/system/architecture.md`.

The abridged set below is everything needed to *use* arbe; the complete set adds our internal operations docs and `thinking/` design rationale — the why, not the how.

## Documentation Sets

- [Abridged documentation](https://arbe.0sk.ar/docs/llms-small.txt): a compact version of the documentation for arbe docs, with non-essential content removed
- [Complete documentation](https://arbe.0sk.ar/docs/llms-full.txt): the full documentation for arbe docs

## Notes

- The complete documentation includes all content from the official documentation
- The content is automatically generated from the same source as the official documentation

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/oskarrough/arbe)