A realm is your personal instance of Autonomy Realms — a self-contained space for preserving and presenting your signals. Each realm has its own signals, places, traces, settings, and audience. Think of a realm as an independent archive with its own identity and configuration.
A single user account can own or belong to multiple realms. This allows you to maintain separate archives for different projects, themes, or purposes. For example, you might have one realm for personal field recordings and another for a collaborative research project.
If you have access to more than one realm, you can switch between them from the realm selector in the admin panel. Switching realms changes the entire context — settings, signals, users, and all other data are scoped to the active realm.
Each realm has its own configuration, managed through the Settings section of the admin panel. Settings are organized into three categories:
See the individual settings documentation pages for details on each configuration area.