Docs

Start with the guides. The reference pages are the documents Tau's own code follows.

Guides

• Get startedInstall Tau, connect your agents, start a thread, pair your phone.
• Install and runEvery installer, Linux details, updates, the tau command, and running from a checkout.
• Make a changeWrite a kit of your own, or change Tau and open a pull request.
• Updates and machinesHow Tau updates itself, other computers, and a host without a window.
• ServersWork on a site that lives on a server: upload, drift, roll back.

Reference

• Runtimes and toolsClaude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Pi, pull request tools, and a live Pi session.
• Hosts and devicesThe host as a service, over a socket or TLS, other machines, the web client and the phone app.
• Writing a packageThe manifest, the API a kit uses, permissions, isolation and signing.
• ArchitectureCore and kits, the window and the host, the extension seam.
• Core and kitsWhat the core owns, and what each shipped kit does.
• Host updatesThe update design, the Linux helper and the threat model.
• ContributingSetting up, where a change goes, and what a pull request needs.

Project

• What Tau doesThe workbench's features, in one list.
• RoadmapWhat is not done yet, and what Tau does not try to be.
• Privacy policyHow the Android app handles connections, notifications and your data.
• DatenschutzerklärungDatenschutz für die Android-App, auf Deutsch.

The rest of the documentation, the decision records among it, lives in the docs folder on GitHub.