Autonomy Realms
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Getting Started

This is the end-to-end workflow for Autonomy Realms — from claiming your realm to sharing your first signal with the world.

Claim Your Realm

Every user gets a realm — your personal namespace for all signals, clusters, and shapes. Claiming your realm sets up your subdomain and initializes your archive.

Configure AI

Before any processing can happen, connect your AI accounts in Settings:

  • Enter your OpenAI API key (required for transcription, analysis, and embeddings)
  • Optionally enter your Anthropic API key if you want to use Claude for analysis

Upload Your First Signal

Go to Signals and create a new signal. Pick the type that matches your content:

  • Transmission for video or audio recordings
  • Document for written text
  • Photo for images
  • Hyperlink for external URLs

Upload your file, fill in the basic fields, and save. Background processing begins automatically — transcription for audio/video, thumbnail generation for video, and file storage.

Run Analysis

Once processing completes, open your signal and run analysis. You choose which fields the AI should fill in:

  • Surface pass — generates core metadata like title, summary, tags, date, location, and energy level
  • Structure pass — extracts deeper patterns like themes, narrative arc, symbolic elements, entities, and key quotes

Select the fields you want and run the analysis. The AI reads your signal's content and fills in each field based on configurable prompt templates.

Explore Your Results

After analysis, your signal has structured metadata you can explore:

  • View the Analysis tab for all AI-generated fields
  • Check the Atlas to see your signal on the map (if it has location data)
  • Use semantic search to find signals by meaning — the embedding was generated automatically
  • Generate reflections for interpretive layers (narrative, symbolic, mirror, lineage)

Organize Into Clusters and Shapes

As your archive grows, group related signals into clusters — thematic arcs that connect signals around a topic, event, or thread. Then group clusters into shapes — higher-order patterns that emerge across clusters.

Both clusters and shapes support their own analysis and embeddings, so the AI can identify patterns at every level.

Share

Every signal, cluster, and shape gets a permanent URL. Set the visibility to control who can see it:

  • Public — anyone with the link
  • Sanctum — only your subscribers
  • Private — only you

Share the URL directly, or share it with an AI assistant for full context retrieval.