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Architecture: Foundry Local
Scope
This is the architecture page for Foundry Local, one of the three targets in ADR-0011. Compare all three targets on the Deployment targets hub.
This target has not been built yet
Nothing on this target has been deployed from this repository, and no automation exists for it yet. Everything below is drawn from accepted decisions and first-party research. Treat it as a design, not an as-built record.
What is decided today
- One Windows Server, Arc-enabled as a hard prerequisite, running the Foundry Local service in the guest OS.
- Arc governs installing and configuring the host. It does not govern the running inference service.
- The install is a single idempotent unit of four check-before-act stages: install, model cache, service configuration, validate. The on-disk model cache is the unit of state, not a flag file.
The research and decisions behind this page
These were open when this page was first written. They are now written and linked below. Where a finding contradicted an earlier claim on this page, the page has been corrected and says so inline.