# Kiokuko documentation

Choose a guide by what you need to do:

- [Startup defaults for Lisp and decisions](../README.md#startup-defaults) — preselect the per-task card answer and set the decision provider.
- [OpenAI Decisions setup](../README.md#openai-decisions-setup) — API key, credential file paths, automatic reload, precedence and provider switching; [detailed configuration](typed-decisions.md#openai-credentials).
- [Getting started](getting-started.md) — install and run the DeepSeek Harness plugin.
- [Concepts](concepts.md) — RAG, memory lifecycle, Project/Ecosystem/Global scopes, and Akinator.
- [Semantic retrieval](semantic-retrieval.md) — embedding runtime setup, operation, offline mode, and fallback.
- [Security and trust](security-and-trust.md) — secret rejection, memory boundaries, External Skills, and public errors.
- [TypeSafe from Lisp](typesafe.md) — credential setup, semantic decisions, examples and explicit live smoke.

Implementation references: [architecture](architecture.md), [database](database.md),
[execution ledger](execution-ledger.md), [harness map](harness-map.md), and [retrieval evaluation](retrieval-evaluation.md).

The Japanese user guides are available from the [日本語目次](README.ja.md).

- [Execution and model selection](model-selection.md)