The model

A governed mapof what exists.

Agents understand the estate without full access to the underlying data.

Filesystem

Files live in place across your existing systems. We don't move anything.

Local catalogue

Shelfmark indexes file metadata and structure only — not content.

Permissions

Your permissions define what each agent is allowed to see.

Agent view

Agents see only what they're allowed to see — nothing more.

The guarantees

Decided in the engine, not left to the caller.

You decide what an agent can see

No document content stored

No forced migration

No filesystem restructuring

No ingestion of thousands of files into model context

No broad “AI has access to everything” compromise

A lightweight, local, permission-aware map of reality.