Architecture

Infrastructure, not another coding assistant.

Strata is not an LLM and does not write code. It is the system of record that coding agents and developers work against. The backend is written in Go and ships as Docker containers, with PostgreSQL for metadata and S3-compatible object storage for repository content.

It does not depend on a particular model provider. Any agent that speaks MCP, the native API or Git can use it.

Fig. 08 — System columnSchematic

Clients

Git clients

Claude Code

Codex

Other MCP agents

Interfaces

Git HTTP / SSH

MCP

gRPC API

Identity

Users & agents

Permissions

Delegation

Core

Workspaces

Integration

Context store

Coordination

Storage

PostgreSQL

S3-compatible

Go backend · Docker deployment · no LLM provider dependency

Integration

Transactional integration

Fig. A — Transactional integrationSchematic

Candidatesubmitted from a workspace

Validationagainst the authoritative state

INTEGRATE · acknowledge to agent

▲ On overlap return a structured conflict — file, region, base, overlapping revision

A change either integrates atomically and is acknowledged, or it overlaps and returns as structured data.

Context

Context lifecycle

Fig. B — Context lifecycleSchematic

Discovery recorded during a session

◐ PROVISIONAL

Discovery checked against current code

✓ VERIFIED

Decision superseded by a later decision

SUPERSEDED

Records carry a status so they can be verified or superseded as the code moves on.

Deployment

Deployment model

Self-hosted
runtime	Go services in Docker
metadata	PostgreSQL
objects	S3-compatible storage (evaluated on Ceph)
access	Git HTTP / SSH, MCP, gRPC

Installation guide →Status and roadmap