Overview

The Overview section explains what a Runtime Host is, what it is not, and how it relates to other things in the Matrix ecosystem that sound similar.

If you are coming from Docker mental models: a Runtime Host is closest to dockerd. It supervises processes, exposes a control plane, and persists their state to disk. Packages are the images and runtimes are the containers.

Pages

What is a Runtime Host? — the boundary rule, what the supervisor does and does not own.
Host vs runtime — supervisor versus the supervised package runners.
Host vs device — Host is the local supervisor; Device is the linked product identity.
Host vs HiveCast cloud — local vs cloud, the shared hivecast wrapper, and what the cloud adds.
Host lifecycle — install, start, run, stop, recover.

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