ZQK Community Docs
The Cellular Knowledge Operating System for autonomous AI agent swarms and human engineering teams.
Core Documentation Quadrants
🚀 Onboarding & First-Run
Get up and running with the ZQK Core CLI, daemons, and autonomous agent seating.
🏛️ Core Architecture
Deep foundational specifications governing the Knowledge Kernel.
📜 Specifications & Grammars
Formal AST grammars, execution engines, and query planning algorithms.
📖 Reference Manuals & Guides
Complete syntax reference, CLI options, and developer field guides.
🚨 Incident Runbooks & Operations
Operational triage recipes, crash recovery, and daemon health management.
🔬 Quality & Codebase Evaluation
Multi-agent evaluation framework (CEF), Diamond Scale, and 52 lens rubrics.
🔧 Maintenance & Development
Foundational engineering conventions, policy durability models, and AST gates.
📦 Kernel Subsystems & Core Engines
Architectural design, interface contracts, and storage implementations across the Go microkernel.
🤖 Agent Operating Protocols
Directives, MCP integration, persona seating, and continuous autonomous loop discipline.
⚖️ Open Core Governance
Open-source policies, contributing guidelines, and security disclosures.
Core Documentation Directory
Explore all 215 canonical guides published in ZQK Core:
Getting Started
10 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for getting started.
Architecture & Foundation
38 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for architecture & foundation.
Specifications & Grammars
10 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for specifications & grammars.
Kernel Subsystems — Core Engines
35 articlesArchitectural design, interface contracts, and core engine implementations across the Go microkernel.
Kernel Subsystems — Spec & Command Builders
7 articlesSpec-driven builder patterns, versioned code generation engines, and generated Cobra command builders.
Kernel Subsystems — CLI Commands & Tooling
4 articlesCommand-line interfaces, daemon shims, operational diagnostics, and system test suites under cmd/.
Kernel Subsystems — Internal Runtime
1 articlesUnexported packages: codegen quarantine, distribution doc checks, and stamp verification keys.
Kernel DNA & Object Schemas
4 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for kernel dna & object schemas.
Reference Manuals
6 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for reference manuals.
How-To & Incident Runbooks
9 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for how-to & incident runbooks.
Tutorials, Demos & Guides
15 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for tutorials, demos & guides.
Agent Skills & Protocols
16 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for agent skills & protocols.
Maintenance & Development
3 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for maintenance & development.
Quality & Evaluation
1 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for quality & evaluation.
Codebase Evaluation — Framework & Governance
11 articlesConstitutional invariants, multi-axis Diamond Scale grading, wave orchestration, and handoff contracts.
Codebase Evaluation — Evaluation Rubrics
12 articlesStandardized, cited quality rubrics defining observable failure modes and criteria across 12 engineering dimensions.
Codebase Evaluation — Specialist Prompts
13 articlesLens-specialized investigation prompts for deep, evidence-backed codebase analysis.
Codebase Evaluation — Adversarial Prompts
11 articlesFalsifiable adversarial auditor prompts designed to challenge, stress-test, and verify specialist findings.
Open Core Governance
5 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for open core governance.
Agent Directives & Protocols
1 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for agent directives & protocols.
Reference
3 articlesAuthoritative open-core specifications and guides for reference.