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title: 🏗️ Architecture
description: Map of the code-server runtime topology, request flow, and local directory layout.
source: verified deployment on the loca operator host, 2026-08-19
reviewed: 2026-08-19
---

# 🏗️ Architecture

The page set starts with architecture flow and layout, then routes to operations or reference for maintenance and path-level lookup.

- [[architecture/runtime-topology]] — request-path topology, local directory map, auth/cert rationale, and websocket requirements
- [[operations/index]] — operations starting point
- [[reference/config-paths]] — canonical config/service/file locations