Concepts

Six pages that explain the product model and the values behind Cabinet. If you've read Philosophy and want the next layer down — start here.

The model

• What is Cabinet App — the in-app feature surface in plain language.
• Cabinet File Format — what's actually on disk: manifest, agents, jobs, pages.
• AI Team Concept — how personas, skills, and rhythms come together.

The values & architecture

• Principles — the six rules that shape every decision: Yours, Git everything, BYOAI, KISS, Security, Self-hosted.
• Cabinet vs the alternatives — how it compares to Obsidian, Notion, and chat apps.
• AI Runtime — provider adapters, conversation transcripts, per-run overrides.