Kristal Framework — Wiki
Kristal is a framework for producing, validating, distributing, and querying deterministic knowledge artifacts (“Kristals”) that remain offline-correct and fail-closed when integrity/trust signals are present.
This wiki is product/usage oriented: what Kristal does, the main artifacts, and the workflows. Technical specifications live in the docs repo and are linked when needed.
Start here
- Quickstart (end-to-end): Quickstart
- Glossary: Glossary
- What is Kristal (mental model): Concepts & Mental Model
What you can do with Kristal
- Build a Kristal from sources (claims → resolved claims → exchange artifact)
- Validate outputs (schema/profile checks, integrity)
- Publish and distribute artifacts (versioned, rollbacks supported)
- Query locally or via services (capabilities + pagination)
- Compose multiple publishers (sharding + federation)
Core concepts
- Identity & Determinism
- Trust, Authority & Signatures
- Shards & Federations (overview): Federation & Curation
Artifacts (what exists on disk / in distribution)
Workflows (how teams use it)
- Build & Validate
- Publish & Distribute
- Activate, Rollback & Downgrade
- Subsets (Recipes)
- Federation & Curation
Query
Operations
FAQ
Tech specs (for implementers)
If you need exact schemas, normative rules, or conformance requirements, refer to the technical docs in the main repository (not the wiki).