6. Runtime View

This section highlights a few “important at runtime” scenarios that are useful when debugging end-to-end.

6.1 Desktop app startup

6.2 Join flow (request → decision)

6.3 Blob fetch by CID (with VDF caching)

6.4 Local AI (streaming tokens)

Note: drift resolution uses the in-process soma-agentd library (via the @soma/node addon); chat / list-models / rerank still go out over HTTP to the configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

For a more detailed narrative, see docs/src/architecture/e2e-flows.md.