The front door
A LibreChat deployment is seven containers, a 38-line config file, two bind mounts and one shadowed upstream file: the chat application is the smallest part of it.
A LibreChat deployment is seven containers, a 38-line config file, two bind mounts and one shadowed upstream file: the chat application is the smallest part of it.
A self-hosted OpenAI-compatible 9router endpoint in front of two flat-rate inference plans: five routes, one key per device, and six patch layers that decide whether it works.
One git repository for the agents, skills, commands and permissions a team runs on, plus two small plugins: one keeps every checkout current, one keeps MCP tool definitions per repository.
A demo answers whether a model can call a function. A service has users, uptime and an audit trail: trust boundaries, tool contracts, operability, rollout.
An architecture choice is a bet on years of running cost: the stages a system passes through, five shapes to pick from, and how to choose between them.