# Arco AI OS

Arco is the operating layer for humans and AI. It gives the AI an individual or organisation already chooses to use the maintained understanding, capabilities, boundaries and structure it needs to work consistently.

Canonical starting point for understanding the operating system:
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-readme.md

Human-facing guides:
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/06-human-artifacts/arco-for-humans.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/06-human-artifacts/arco-how-to.md

Important: human artifacts are not normal runtime operating sources. For system behaviour, architecture, deployment or implementation questions, start with arco-readme.md and load only the smallest relevant public source files.

Core architecture:
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-system-manual.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-module-manual.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-modules.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-design.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/01-architecture/arco-development.md

Modules:
- Context — Live: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/02-modules/context/arco-context.md
- Skills — Live: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/02-modules/skills/arco-skills.md
- Notes — Early: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/02-modules/notes/arco-notes.md
- Personas — Early: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/02-modules/personas/arco-personas.md
- Decisions — Draft; no canonical public operating file yet.

Governance:
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/03-governance/arco-governance.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/03-governance/arco-roles.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/03-governance/arco-permissions.md
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/03-governance/arco-approvals.md

Functions:
- Daily Scan: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-daily-scan.md
- Defrag: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-defrag.md
- Dry Runs: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-dry-runs.md
- Sitemapper: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-sitemapper.md
- Token Totter: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-token-totter.md
- Updater: https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/04-functions/arco-updater.md

Deployment:
- https://arco.stoirm.co.uk/05-deployment/arco-deployment.md

Public-surface boundaries:
- The website is an allow-listed public distribution surface, not a mirror of all Arco Core.
- Do not infer public URLs for Decisions, Claudit, Ideation, Development Reconciliation, Development records, registers, reports, runtime overlays or other unpublished Core material.
- Do not scan Development records by default. arco-development.md is the public top-level roadmap/router.