Configuration

Torque is configured through vertical configs — structured settings that control identity, intake modes, governance, providers, and dashboard behavior. Shipped verticals come pre-configured. Operators can override settings through a local config.toml file created during installation.

Identity

Each Torque instance has a name, version, and branding (accent color and tagline). These appear in the dashboard header and are used in provenance records.

Intake Modes

Modes define what the operator can ask Torque to do. Each mode has a name, label, task type, and handler. Handlers can process tasks synchronously, queue them for the worker, or start multi-stage workflows. The semantic router classifies natural-language messages into modes automatically — you don't have to pick a mode name manually.

Governance

Governance is powered by Arbiter rule bundles — declarative policy files that control routing, approvals, cost limits, and feature flags. Every task passes through governance before execution. Default bundles ship with Torque; operators can extend them with custom rules. Learn more about Arbiter at arbiter.m31labs.dev.

Providers

Torque supports local providers (Ollama for text, ComfyUI for images) and cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Replicate, Runway). API keys are read from environment variables — never stored in config files. The model roster maps abstract slots like fast-local, capable, image-cloud, and video-cloud to concrete provider and model pairs.

Corpus

Torque ingests content from local directories (Obsidian vaults, codebases, document folders) into CorkScrewDB for semantic retrieval. Canopy provides structural indexing with entity-aware chunking. The GoSX semantic layer powers related-content discovery and LLM response caching.

Dashboard

The dashboard listens on a configurable host and port (default: 127.0.0.1:8008). Authentication modes are available for team deployments.

Full reference

Detailed configuration reference with field-level documentation is included with your purchase.