# Capabilities A project is a container: a name, an address, its members, and the parts of Lore it uses. Those parts are its **capabilities**. A team that only wants a wiki turns on Knowledge alone; a team that plans, documents, supports and operates a product turns on all four. ## The four capabilities | In the wizard and in Settings | Sidebar entries | What it is for | | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | **Plan and track work** | Quests, Kanban, Epics, Releases, Automations | The work: what is planned, in progress and shipped. | | **Write and keep knowledge** | Folios | The memory: linked notes, files and their history. | | **Deploy and watch apps** | Apps, Blights, Stacks, Artifacts, Uptime | What you run: analytics, errors, checks and deploys. | | **Collect feedback** | Feedback | What your users ask for, and an inbox to triage it. | These pages call them **Work**, **Knowledge**, **Apps** and **Support** for short. Some things belong to every project, whatever its capabilities: the [dashboard](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-dashboard.md), the activity feed, [reports](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-reports.md), [members and ranks](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-members.md) and [notifications](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-notifications.md). A project with every capability off is still a project with members and a history. ## Options Most capabilities have options, so that a small project is not shown a page it will never use. An option that is off hides its menu entry and its fields. **Work** | Option | What it adds | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Board** | A Kanban board with columns you name. See [Quests](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/work-quests.md). | | **Epics** | Bounded initiatives that group quests. See [Epics](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/work-epics.md). | | **Releases** | Named versions that ship. See [Releases](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/work-releases.md). | | **Automations** | Rules that notify or act on an event or a schedule. See [Automations](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/work-automations.md). | | **Estimates** | A planned duration on each quest. | | **Timer** | The time a quest actually took. | | **Reminders** | A nudge to whoever holds a quest that has gone quiet. | | **Agent prompts** | A menu that copies a ready-made prompt for your coding agent. See [Agent prompts](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/agents-prompts.md). | **Knowledge** | Option | What it adds | | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Summaries for agents** | Shows the summary field on a folio. See [Folios](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/knowledge-folios.md). | **Apps** | Option | What it adds | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Track apps** | Analytics, vitals and errors reported by your apps. See [Telemetry](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/apps-telemetry.md). | | **Deploy apps** | Pushing a build to a machine you own. See [Deploying an app](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/apps-deploying.md). | | **Healthchecks** | Checks on websites, ports, certificates and scheduled jobs. See [Healthchecks](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/apps-healthchecks.md). | | **Stacks** | Apps and services deployed together from one Compose file. See [Stacks](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/apps-stacks.md). | **Support** has no option. ## Turning one on or off Open **Settings ▸ General ▸ Capabilities**. Each capability is a switch, with its options beneath it. ![The Capabilities tab of a project's settings](/screenshots/lore/capabilities-light.png) Turning a capability off: - removes its entries from the sidebar and its results from search; - refuses new writes to it, from the browser, the command line and agents alike, with a message that names the capability; - **deletes nothing**. Turn it back on and every quest, folio or app is where you left it. Only the project's **owner** can switch capabilities. No rank can be given that right. ## The rest of a project's settings **Settings ▸ General ▸ Details** holds the project itself: - **Icon** and **Name**. Renaming a project changes its address, and frees the old one for someone else to take. - **Preferred Language**: the language agents should write quests and folios in. - **Repository**: where the project's commits live. Once it is set, the commits recorded on a quest become links. - **Export quests** downloads every quest as a CSV file. - **Archive project** hides it from the switcher, search and the home page without deleting anything. ⚠️ **Delete this project** removes the project and everything in it, for good. Only the owner can do it. Each capability then has its own settings section, named like its sidebar entry: **Quests**, **Folios**, **Apps**. ## From the command line ```bash lore project capability list -p acme lore project capability enable apps -p acme --option uptime lore project capability disable support -p acme ``` `enable` also changes the options of a capability that is already on; options you do not name keep their value. See [The lore CLI](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/reference-cli.md). ## Next - [Members and ranks](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-members.md): who is in the project and what each person can do. - [Dashboard](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/project-dashboard.md): the page a project opens on. - [Quests](https://alepha.dev/lore/docs/work-quests.md): the heart of the Work capability.