Sepulcher
Within these walls, the Lich slumbers. Align the stones and summon your destiny.
The Sepulcher is LychD's runtime body: rootless pods and services, managed by systemd on Linux, with their mounts and execution boundaries. These pages lay open the organs that sustain the Lich from one invocation to the next.
To follow the body at work, take the Map: one request, from admission through execution to its return.
The Anatomy
I. The Lich and Its Organs
The Lich is the daemon you call upon through LychD. Its body carries out your tasks; its memory can survive a restart.
Four equal faculties shape how it responds: Call receives and routes your intent; Blade tests possibilities against evidence; Spirit carries experience forward; and Answer binds each act to the “I” that bears its consequences.
Then open the body:
| Organ | What you will find |
|---|---|
| Codex | Settings, Runes, configuration precedence, and the binding rite: lychd bind. |
| Crypt | Where persistent files belong and which external workspaces may be mounted. |
| Vessel | What starts, serves, and stops inside one application process. |
| Ghouls | How admitted work reaches a worker and settles. |
| Phylactery | Committed state that can survive the process. |
| Reanimation | What can return after death. |
| Gateway | A separate machine to face hostile ingress. Home and Remote are Designed placements. |
II. The Animating Spark
An Animator is a capability service you can address and call. A local Soulstone lives on your iron, with its Rune, container, devices, mounts, secrets, and lifecycle. A Portal declares a remote API boundary; the provider controls that service's lifecycle.
Capabilities tells you what you can ask for and receive. Connectors supplies the exact dialect for the call. Before using a service, establish that it is ready, that it is compatible, and that you have permission to call it. Each needs its own evidence.
A Coven groups compatible services. To change what is running, follow Runtime transitions through inspection, lease drain, readiness, and recovery.
III. Growth and Sight
The Federation of Extensions maps fifteen stable jurisdictions for new organs. It explains how a Domain relates to a selected package, a contribution, or a provider, and how Compositions and Products use them.
The Oculus design follows the evidence of an act, showing where each observation came from and where evidence is missing. Native Oculus remains Designed; today's Altar offers a narrower view of the work.
Enter the body
State of Work tells you what works today and what still awaits life. Begin the tour of the operational body with the Vessel.