blackroad-os-archive/catalog/services.md

# 📚 BlackRoad OS Services & Repositories Catalog

**Last Updated:** 2025-11-25  
**Purpose:** Canonical list of all BlackRoad OS repositories and services  
**Maintained By:** Archive Team & AI Agents

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## Overview

This catalog provides a comprehensive view of the BlackRoad OS ecosystem, listing all repositories, their purposes, and links to relevant archive content.

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## 🧾 Archive Role Definition

`blackroad-os-archive` is the **Memory Vault 📡** — the immutable memory of BlackRoad OS:

### What This Archive Owns (✅)
- 🧾 **Append-only history:** Deploy logs, system pings, beacon maps
- 📦 **Artifacts:** Key system snapshots, reports, serialized state bundles
- 📡 **Archive feeds:** Streams for Prism Console, Operator workflows, Research/analytics
- 🔍 **Query & indexing:** Lightweight time/env/service/region indexing

### What This Archive Does NOT Own (🚫)
- Live runtime logic → `blackroad-os-core`, `-web`, `-api`, `-operator`
- Infra definitions → `blackroad-os-infra`
- Brand system → `blackroad-os-brand`
- Handbook / policies → `blackroad-os-home`
- Main docs → `blackroad-os-docs`
- Raw math/theory → `blackroad-os-research`

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## 🏛️ Organizations

### BlackRoad-OS
- **Type:** Primary organization
- **Purpose:** Main ecosystem for BlackRoad OS
- **Visibility:** Public
- **URL:** https://github.com/BlackRoad-OS
- **Status:** Active

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## 📦 Repositories

### Core Infrastructure

#### blackroad-os-archive
- **Purpose:** Memory Vault 📡 — append-only archive for deploy logs, beacon maps, ping history, and key system artifacts
- **Status:** Active
- **Language:** Markdown
- **URL:** https://github.com/BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-archive
- **Archive Status:** Self-archiving repository
- **Key Content:**
  - 🧾 Deploy logs and system events
  - 📡 Health pings and status history
  - 🗺️ Beacon maps and service reachability
  - 🕰️ Ecosystem snapshots
  - 🧬 IP registry
  - 📑 Reports and postmortems
  - Workflow documentation

#### blackroad-os-core
- **Purpose:** Core platform and runtime (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as content is archived*

#### blackroad-os-api
- **Purpose:** API layer and service interfaces (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as content is archived*

#### blackroad-os-operator
- **Purpose:** Kubernetes operator or orchestration layer (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as content is archived*

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### Documentation & Research

#### blackroad-os-docs
- **Purpose:** Primary documentation repository (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as finalized docs are archived*

#### blackroad-os-research
- **Purpose:** Research papers, IP development, experimental work (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as IP is registered*

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### Infrastructure & DevOps

#### blackroad-os-infra
- **Purpose:** Infrastructure as code, deployment configs (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as infrastructure snapshots are archived*

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### Brand & Design

#### blackroad-os-brand
- **Purpose:** Brand guidelines, design systems (assumed)
- **Status:** Assumed active
- **Archive Pointers:** *To be added as brand artifacts are archived*

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## 🔗 Archive Integration

### How Repos Connect to Archive

**Source Repos → Archive Flow:**
1. Content created and refined in source repo
2. Finalized content labeled `Status: Ready for Archive`
3. Archive copy created in `blackroad-os-archive`
4. Catalog updated to link back to source
5. Archived version becomes canonical reference

### 📡 Archive Feeds

The archive provides feeds that other systems consume:

| Feed | Consumer | Content |
|------|----------|---------|
| Deploy logs | Prism Console 🕹️ | What shipped, when, by whom |
| Health pings | Operator ⚙️ | Uptime, latency, status trends |
| Beacon maps | Research 🧪 | Service/env reachability |
| Snapshots | All systems | Point-in-time ecosystem state |

### Archival Status by Repo

| Repository | Archived Items | Last Archival | Archive Location |
|------------|---------------|---------------|------------------|
| blackroad-os-archive | Self | 2025-11-24 | - |
| blackroad-os-core | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-api | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-operator | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-docs | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-research | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-infra | 0 | - | - |
| blackroad-os-brand | 0 | - | - |

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## 🎯 Repository Categories

### By Function:

**Platform:**
- blackroad-os-core
- blackroad-os-api
- blackroad-os-operator

**Development:**
- blackroad-os-research
- blackroad-os-docs

**Operations:**
- blackroad-os-infra
- blackroad-os-archive

**Brand:**
- blackroad-os-brand

### By Archive Activity:

**Active Archival Sources:**
- blackroad-os-research (expected for IP)
- blackroad-os-docs (expected for finalized docs)
- blackroad-os-infra (expected for architecture snapshots)

**Self-Archiving:**
- blackroad-os-archive (this repo)

**Pending Archival:**
- Others as content is created and finalized

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## 🔄 Service Relationships

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         blackroad-os-archive            │
│      (Long-term memory & ledger)        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
                    ↑
                    │ Archives finalized content from:
        ┌───────────┼───────────┐
        │           │           │
┌───────┴──────┐ ┌──┴────────┐ ┌┴──────────────┐
│ blackroad-os-│ │blackroad- │ │ blackroad-os- │
│   research   │ │ os-docs   │ │    infra      │
│   (IP dev)   │ │(finalized)│ │ (snapshots)   │
└──────────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────────┘
```

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## 📊 Ecosystem Statistics

**Current State (2025-11-24):**
- **Total Organizations:** 1 (BlackRoad-OS)
- **Total Repositories:** 8+ (some assumed)
- **Active Archive Sources:** 3 (research, docs, infra)
- **Archived Items:** 0 (from external repos)
- **Self-Archived Items:** Initial structure

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## 🆕 Recently Added Repositories

*Track new repositories as they are created*

- **2025-11-24:** blackroad-os-archive (this repo)

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## 📝 Maintenance Notes

### Update Triggers:
- New repository created → Add to catalog
- Repository archived → Update status
- First archival from repo → Update archive pointers
- Major repo purpose change → Update description

### Review Schedule:
- **Monthly:** Verify all repos listed and statuses current
- **Quarterly:** Review relationships and update diagrams
- **Annually:** Comprehensive audit of entire catalog

### Data Sources:
- GitHub API for repository lists
- Repository README files for descriptions
- Archive index for archival status
- Team input for purposes and statuses

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## 🔍 Finding Content

### By Repository:
1. Find repo in catalog above
2. Check "Archive Pointers" for links
3. Follow links to specific archived items

### By Topic:
1. Check `catalog/INDEX.md` for topic categories
2. Use GitHub search within archive
3. Review `catalog/timeline.md` for chronological view

### By Date:
1. Check `snapshots/YYYY-MM-DD/repos-overview.md`
2. See historical view of repo landscape
3. Compare across snapshots for changes

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## 🛠️ For Maintainers

**Adding a New Repository:**
```markdown
#### [repo-name]
- **Purpose:** [clear description]
- **Status:** Active | Archived | Deprecated
- **Language:** [primary language]
- **URL:** https://github.com/BlackRoad-OS/[repo-name]
- **Archive Pointers:** [links to archived content]
```

**Updating Archival Status:**
- Keep table current with each archival
- Update "Archive Pointers" with links
- Note in "Recently Added Repositories" if new

**Archive Integration Workflow:**
- See `workflows/archive-workflow.md` for full process
- Update this catalog as part of archival PR
- Link archive items back to source repos

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**This catalog is a living document. Keep it current as the ecosystem evolves.** 🌌💚