# Aphoria Guides

**Aphoria is an autonomous learning system powered by LLM workflows.** Choose your integration path:

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## 🤖 I Want Autonomous Operation (Recommended)

**LLM-Driven Workflows:** Skills, agents, or custom integrations

**Claude Code Skills:**
- Load `/aphoria-claims` - Commit-time claim authoring
- Load `/aphoria-suggest` - Pattern-based claim suggestions
- Load `/aphoria-custom-extractor-creator` - Generate custom extractors

**Go ADK Agents:**
- See [ADK-Go Integration](../../../sdk/go/adk/) - Fully autonomous tool-use agents

**Custom Integration:**
- Any LLM with tool-use capability can drive Aphoria via CLI

**Why LLM workflows?**
- Enforce naming conventions (manual errors break tail-path matching)
- Reason about consequences (not just pattern matching)
- Suggest claims from patterns automatically
- Create extractors for custom patterns
- **Enable the autonomous flywheel** (scan→fix→evaluate→claim→create)

**The CLI is a debug/fallback interface.** For production use, integrate LLM workflows.

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## 📚 I Want to Learn It (20 minutes)

**Worked Example:** Follow a complete use case from documentation → claims → violations → fixes

[Database Connection Pool Example](../../dogfood/dbpool/) - See how a solo developer:
1. Extracts 25-30 claims from HikariCP/PostgreSQL docs
2. Writes code (with intentional violations)
3. Runs Aphoria scan (catches all 7-8 violations)
4. Fixes violations incrementally
5. Reaches production-ready code

**What you get:**
- Complete claim extraction walkthrough with decision framework
- Pre-flight validator to check your environment
- Expected output examples for every command
- Real scan results showing BLOCK/FLAG/PASS verdicts

**Time:** 20 minutes to read, 5 days to execute (optional)

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## 🚀 Fallback: No LLM Access (Debug Interface)

**CLI-Only Mode:** For environments without LLM access or debugging

**⚠️ Limitations:**
- Manual claim authoring (naming errors break tail-path matching)
- No autonomous flywheel (scan only, no evaluate/claim/create)
- Requires manual pattern analysis

## 🔧 I Want to Integrate It (30 minutes)

**Production Integration:** Pre-commit hooks, CI/CD, team workflows

See:
- [Pre-Flight Checks Guide](./pre-flight-checks.md) - Git hooks and CI integration
- [Enterprise Quick Start](./enterprise-quick-start.md) - Team deployment
- [Multi-Team Policy Governance](./multi-team-policy-governance.md) - Scaling to multiple teams

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## Getting Started Guides

| Guide | Audience | Description |
|-------|----------|-------------|
| [Solo Developer Guide](./solo-developer-guide.md) | Individual developers | Get immediate value on personal or side projects |
| [Enterprise Pilot Guide](./enterprise-pilot-guide.md) | Security teams | Run a measurable pilot with stakeholder buy-in |
| [Enterprise Quick Start](./enterprise-quick-start.md) | Platform engineering | 5-minute path from git clone to enforcing standards |
| [The First Scan](./the-first-scan.md) | Everyone | Your first Aphoria scan walkthrough |
| [Pre-Flight Checks](./pre-flight-checks.md) | DevOps | Pre-commit and CI integration |

## Core Workflows

| Guide | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| [Bulk Claim Import](./bulk-claim-import.md) | Import claims in bulk from TOML files with validation |
| [Federating Truth](./federating-truth.md) | Trust Pack creation and distribution |
| [Multi-Team Policy Governance](./multi-team-policy-governance.md) | Managing policies across teams |
| [Policy Audit Trails](./policy-audit-trails.md) | Compliance and auditing |
| [Authoritative State Per Project](./authoritative-state-per-project.md) | Project-specific policy management |

## Advanced Topics

| Guide | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| [Golden Path Loop](./golden-path-loop.md) | Continuous policy improvement |
| [AAA Game Development](./aaa-game-development.md) | Unreal Engine patterns |
| [LLM Wiki Extraction](./llm-wiki-extraction.md) | Extract claims from technical docs using LLM skill |

## Reference Materials

| Document | Purpose |
|----------|---------|
| [CLI Reference](../reference/cli-reference.md) | Complete command documentation |
| [Comparison Modes](../reference/comparison-modes.md) | How Aphoria evaluates conflicts |
| [Configuration](../reference/configuration.md) | .aphoria/config.toml reference |
| [Architecture](../architecture/README.md) | System design and algorithms |

## UAT Results

See [UAT Reports](../../uat/) for validation results:
- [Policy Source Tracking UAT](../../uat/2026-02-04-uat-real-world-policy-source.md) - Trust Pack workflow validation

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## Support

- **Installation issues:** See [Solo Developer Guide](./solo-developer-guide.md#quick-start-2-minutes)
- **Scan not finding violations:** Check [Troubleshooting](../reference/cli-reference.md#troubleshooting)
- **Custom extractors:** See [Architecture: Extractors](../architecture/README.md#extractors)
- **Enterprise deployment:** See [Enterprise Pilot Guide](./enterprise-pilot-guide.md)