Vault home
The vault home is the place where the vault engine stores and serves durable content. It is separate from Cloud login.
Vault home by mode
Section titled “Vault home by mode”| Mode | Vault home | Operator |
|---|---|---|
| Local-only daemon | Your machine | You |
| Self-hosted full experience | Your machine | You |
| Hosted full experience | KB-1 hosted environment | KB-1 |
The same Cloud login can route to different vault homes depending on how the organization’s daemon is configured.
What lives in a self-hosted vault home
Section titled “What lives in a self-hosted vault home”A daemon-owned vault lives under the daemon state directory:
$KB1_HOME/vaults/<vault-id>/That folder contains Markdown, attachments, vault metadata, and the .kb1
identity directory. It is the thing you back up, inspect, copy, and restore.
What Cloud sees
Section titled “What Cloud sees”In self-hosted full experience, Cloud stores account, organization, routing, and access-control records. The daemon remains responsible for content reads and writes.
In Hosted full experience, KB-1 operates the daemon and vault home, so Hosted content custody is part of the Cloud service.