# Open ADMS documentation

> Open-source debris management and field reconciliation for disaster recovery. Set it up, run a mission, and understand every rule it applies.

Source: /docs/

## Start here

- **[What is Open ADMS?](/docs/get-started/what-is-open-adms.md)** The problem it solves, who uses it, and
  what it deliberately is not.
- **[Quick start](/docs/get-started/quick-start.md)** Bring a whole installation up on one machine with one
  command, with the sample projects loaded.
- **[Install an installation](/docs/get-started/install.md)** What the installer asks, what it sets up, and
  how to run it again safely.

## Understand the model

- **[Two field events, one ticket](/docs/concepts/two-field-events.md)** Why every load is recorded twice,
  by two monitors who cannot see each other, and joined only on the server.
- **[The load call](/docs/concepts/load-call.md)** The number the money hangs on.
- **[Flags, never blocks](/docs/concepts/flags.md)** How every problem becomes a plain message for review.
- **[The ledger and the audit trail](/docs/concepts/ledger-and-audit.md)** Pay items, rules, transactions
  that are regenerated, and an audit log that is append-only.

## Guides by role

| You are                                            | Start with                                                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Back office** (admin, manager/analyst)           | [Set up a project](/docs/guides/back-office/set-up-a-project.md), then [Dispatch](/docs/guides/back-office/dispatch.md) and [Review and correct](/docs/guides/back-office/review-and-correct.md) |
| **Field monitor**                                  | [Field monitors](/docs/guides/field-monitors.md): sign in, capture, sync                                                                                                           |
| **Read-only viewer** (client, contractor, auditor) | [Viewers](/docs/guides/viewers.md)                                                                                                                                                 |
| **Developer or operator**                          | [Architecture](/docs/reference/architecture.md), [API reference](/docs/reference/api.md), [Commands](/docs/reference/commands.md)                                                                |

## For agents and assistants

Every page has a **Copy page** button and a menu to view it as Markdown or open it in Claude or
ChatGPT. Every page is also served as Markdown at its own address with `.md` in place of the
trailing slash, [llms.txt](/docs/llms.txt) indexes them all, and [llms-full.txt](/docs/llms-full.txt) holds
the whole documentation in one file.

Open ADMS is open source under the [Apache License 2.0](/docs/licence.md). A firm installs it and runs its
own installation; the source is on [GitHub](https://github.com/MrRyanAlexander/openadms).