Describe the application
Keep pages, content, and application declarations together.
Blocklet guideARC / AGENTIC REALM COMPUTER
Your ideas. Up and running.
ARC is the Agentic Realm Computer. Run a website or a Blocklet, give it the resources it needs, and make it accessible to people and agents.
FROM APPLICATION TO EXPERIENCE
One application. More than one way in.
Your application
Blocklet
Pages · Content · Resources
The runtimeARCAgentic Realm Computer
FROM AN IDEA TO A RUNNING EXPERIENCE
Give it a shape. Give it a home.
A Blocklet describes the application. ARC runs it. Its resources can be addressed through AFS.
Run it with ARC
Serve the Blocklet locally and inspect the actual experience.
ARC CLI guideConnect its resources
Use AFS to work with the files and services the application needs.
AFS guideHELLO, ARC.
Run your first Blocklet.
Install ARC, then follow the current Blocklet guide to create and run a local application.
arc service start --blocklet blocklets/arcblock --port 4937 --instance site-design-0907
AFS Service started
Blocklet: arcblock
http://arcblock.localhost:4937/More about ARC
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