# About Barn

> The product model, implementation boundaries, native evidence, current limits, and release gates.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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- [Design](design/) explains why Barn has one Inventory, one deployment, and one fixed-IP network.
- [Status](status/) separates implemented behavior, native validation, and remaining release gates.
- [Engineering](engineering/) defines source, generated-output, package, image-pipeline, and evidence boundaries.

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Section pages:

- [Design](/docs/about/design/): Barn's one-deployment architecture, networking, state, and safety boundaries.
- [Status](/docs/about/status/): Barn 0.9.0 release candidate, current validation, and remaining release checks.
- [Engineering](/docs/about/engineering/): Source layout, build and test gates, image normalization, release outputs, and evidence policy.