Setup and services

Most Argus packages are clients of services they don't ship. ComfyUI renders, Ollama or a vLLM server writes prose, NudeNet and SingGuard judge, model weights come from Hugging Face, and much of it needs a GPU host. Each package's README covers its own part. These pages cover the shared services once, so that running darkroom, say, doesn't mean reading four READMEs.

Every service page lists:

• who uses it: each package, and the exact env var or flag it reads;
• the minimal setup, written out where the suite needs something non-stock, such as darkroom's ComfyUI custom nodes;
• the official guides for the rest.

The env-var facts come from each package's dev branch, and the package docs stay the source of truth. Hosts are always written as <GPU_HOST> or <LAN_HOST>. Put the real address in your local .env.

Cross-package topics

• Moderation: how NudeNet, SingGuard, EraX-NSFW and the MiVOLO age check fit together, where curator, darkroom, cortex and proof use them, and darkroom's adult policies.
• What to run for which UI: the services each demo UI needs live, what its mock replaces, and the no-GPU command.

Services

Nothing to install for a look around

Every demo runs without these services. Studio's static build, Lightbox, Safelight, Assay and Cull replay recorded output, and darkroom's make demo runs against fake servers. See What to run for which UI.