foolish-bandit writes the deployment manual the rest of us skipped

Most forks leave anyone who wants to self-host to reverse-engineer the setup from scratch. foolish-bandit did the opposite, expanding the architecture notes nearly sixfold and adding two step-by-step guides built from the deployment path actually used, not an aspirational one.

The core insight is honest about a trade-off: the front end runs on a lightweight edge network, but the heavy lifting - converting documents and grinding through long processing jobs - lives on a conventional server, because that kind of work simply won't run in an edge environment. The guides also flag the small, silent gotchas that wreck a weekend, like a renamed configuration key that quietly breaks sign-in if you follow a generic tutorial instead of this repo's own naming.