Documentation

Isonomia documentation

Public, login-free documentation for Isonomia — open-source infrastructure for community gathering and structured reasoning.

New here? Start with About Isonomia for a plain-language overview, then read the sections below.

  • ArchitectureThe social layer, the reasoning layer, the argument graph, the evidence system, and the institutional workflow — and how a conversation moves along the informal-to-formal spectrum.
  • Argument graphHow claims, arguments, argumentation schemes, critical questions, challenges, citations, and confidence work — and how every permalink is exposed as a machine-citable artifact.
  • Browser extensionCreate evidence-backed arguments from any webpage, and see inline previews of Isonomia links on Reddit, X, and Hacker News.
  • Self-hostingDeploy and operate your own Isonomia instance: stack, prerequisites, environment, and the build and run steps.
  • PrivacyData ownership, tracking, retention, and how privacy and provenance are enforced by architecture rather than policy.

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