Start here: Operate
If you are responsible for running Asset Core in production, this path focuses on governance, safety, and recovery. It is designed for operators who need to verify access, diagnose failures, and maintain deterministic correctness under load.
Asset Core is strict by design. That strictness is what makes audits, replay, and forensic recovery reliable. The path below walks through the operational surfaces that matter most: deployment, RBAC, namespace governance, and ACCTL as the human control plane.
Recommended path
- Deployment Basics - Single-node operational baseline.
- ACCTL Operator Guide - Human control plane for diagnostics and recovery.
- Authorization Model - RBAC concepts, default-deny posture, and disclosure rules.
- Set up RBAC for a tenant - Task-based access configuration.
- Namespace governance - Lifecycle, freeze/drain, and ownership controls.
- Why access was denied - Fast triage of 401/403/404 outcomes.
- Health and Metrics - Readiness, freshness, and Prometheus signals.
What success looks like
A healthy deployment has a provisioned namespace catalog, token-based access control, and operational tooling that can verify permissions and recover from failed commits without data loss. ACCTL should be your primary verification tool for those guarantees.
Next steps
- If you are integrating applications, switch to Start here: Integration.
- If you are building agent tooling, switch to the Automate path.