Getting Started¶

High-level orientation for Astra. Implementation setup, repo layout, and contributor workflows are intentionally not documented on this public wiki — they live with the source tree for people who already have access.

What Astra is¶

Applications use the Astra SDK, which talks to a small kernel: actor runtime, task graph, scheduler, messaging, and durable state coordination. Under that sits Postgres (source of truth), Redis (streams and fast ephemeral state), Memcached (LLM-related caching), and object storage. Agent and product logic stay outside the kernel via documented APIs — see the architecture overview and PRD §3–5 in the Astra repo.

If you contribute¶

1. Read PRD §1–9 for vision, kernel boundaries, and services.
2. Read the Glossary and Architecture overview.
3. Follow the contributor onboarding and tooling in the private Astra repository (local run, tests, migrations).

Public API smoke test¶

If you have a running environment, health and basic flows are described at a high level in PRD §15 and the API endpoints summary. Exact request bodies and port defaults may change — verify against your deployment.

Further reading¶