Introductory guide · map derived from the surfaces registry

Two channels, one instance, and the pages that govern it

You use Metnos by talking to it. The interface exists for the two things a conversation alone does poorly: showing you the state of the system and letting you act on what governs it. This page tells you how it is arranged, so you do not have to hunt for it.

14administration pages4Settings sections

The prose on this page is curated; the list of pages, their navigation paths, and their routes derive from the runtime's surfaces registry, so they cannot age separately from the product. This is the map, not the inventory: the visible fields, controls, and procedures of each page live once in the registry, and the Tutor recounts them if you ask.

Two channels, one identityHow Settings is arrangedWho may see whatWhen you cannot find a page
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Two channels, one identity

You can talk to Metnos from the instance's web chat or from Telegram. You reach the same system with the same identity and authority, but each channel retains its own conversation and history. Administration pages exist in the web chat only. If you are writing from Telegram and an answer points you to a Settings path, open that path in the web chat, not inside Telegram. On the web channel, if you open the chat on a second device while the first one is active, Metnos offers three choices: Cancel changes nothing and leaves the new browser read-only; Make this session active uses the conversation already present in the new browser; Continue the previous session transfers the first device's conversation to the new browser. The two histories are not merged, and the revoked browser becomes read-only. These sessions and their histories are independent for each user: an owner session conflict does not involve a guest, and vice versa.

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How Settings is arranged

Settings is the administrative part of the web chat. It opens on a status overview and branches into four sections. Every page is reached as “Settings > Section > Page” and answers at an address starting with /admin. Labels are available in Italian and English; in a language not yet translated, the interface shows the English version. The Tutor quotes the path exactly as it appears in the interface.

Map of the Metnos interfaceFrom the two conversation channels to Settings, and from Settings to the four sections with their administration pages, each with its own address.same identity · separate historiesweb chatTelegramSettings opens here onlySettings/admin · status overview01ActivityTurns/admin/turnsScheduler/admin/runsTimers/admin/timersIndex builds/admin/builds02LifecycleChanges/admin/changesExecutors/admin/executorsStatistics/admin/executors/stats03MemoryPraxis/admin/praxis04SystemModels/admin/virtServices/admin/servicesSafety/admin/safetyUsers/admin/usersDevices/admin/devices
Reference map: paths and addresses are the ones held by the surfaces registry. What each page shows, and what you can do there, the Tutor recounts on the instance in front of you.

Overview

  • SettingsSettings · /admin

    Status overview and access to the administration areas.

Activity

  • TurnsSettings > Activity > Turns · /admin/turns

    Requests with channel, actor, steps, and outcome.

  • SchedulerSettings > Activity > Scheduler · /admin/runs

    Scheduled-task runs with outcome and duration.

  • TimersSettings > Activity > Timers · /admin/timers

    System timers, state, and available controls.

  • Index buildsSettings > Activity > Index builds · /admin/builds

    Index builds with progress, state, and ETA.

Lifecycle

  • ChangesSettings > Lifecycle > Changes · /admin/changes

    Change proposals and their approval lifecycle.

  • ExecutorsSettings > Lifecycle > Executors · /admin/executors

    Installed executors, membership, state, and exclusion reasons.

  • StatisticsSettings > Lifecycle > Statistics · /admin/executors/stats

    Operational executor statistics.

Memory

  • PraxisSettings > Memory > Praxis · /admin/praxis

    Cognitive-engine layer state and related configuration.

System

  • ModelsSettings > System > Models · /admin/virt

    Effective configuration for language, embedding, and vision models: LLM and VLM are editable; embedding is view-only.

  • ServicesSettings > System > Services · /admin/services

    Metnos services with state, health, installation, PID, and controls.

  • SafetySettings > System > Safety · /admin/safety

    Signatures governing executor authorization and confirmation.

  • UsersSettings > System > Users · /admin/users

    Users, roles, and associated channels.

  • DevicesSettings > System > Devices · /admin/devices

    Paired remote devices that run executors.

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Who may see what

The pages under /admin require the instance administrator role: an invited guest cannot open them. Knowing that a page exists and what it contains is a different matter from opening it, and the two permissions are distinct: the Tutor explains a page to whoever is allowed to know it, even when access stays reserved to the administrator.

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When you cannot find a page

You do not need to memorize this map. Ask Metnos with a request like this example: “Show me which embedder is configured under Settings > System > Models and guide me there from the web chat.” The Tutor answers in both the web chat and Telegram, but the path it gives you always opens in the web chat. When you ask where something is or what a page contains, it answers with the path, the address, and the contents attested by the instance in front of you, not by generic documentation. If the page does not exist in your installation it says so, instead of inventing it.