Local-First Design
Contexta starts with a local .contexta/ workspace. That makes the evidence
model useful in notebooks, CI jobs, offline review, and autonomous worktrees
before any hosted service is involved.
Design Goals
- keep the first run simple
- make evidence inspectable on disk
- avoid mandatory cloud accounts or collectors
- support backup, restore, replay, and transfer workflows
- let teams add adapters without making the core runtime vendor-specific
Workspace Shape
.contexta/
metadata/
records/
artifacts/
reports/
recovery/
cache/
Where Hosted Systems Fit
Hosted monitoring, experiment tracking, and tracing systems can still be useful. Contexta's local-first stance means the canonical evidence starts beside the project, then adapters can mirror selected records outward.