Ante is Cratis's invitation and onboarding lobby: it signs tokens for host-issued invitations, records invitee acceptance and self-service registration, and publishes facts for a host to act on. The host owns link delivery, the authenticating proxy, and provisioning. Ante also supports two optional HTTP reads from the host.
Status: The backend and React lobby have source-level specifications. The standalone fixture includes a host stub, Chronicle, MongoDB and a stub validating proxy; CI verifies one scripted first invitation through it. Read Security and trust before deployment.
Start with Documentation for host integration, operations, architecture and configuration. Configure incoming host outbox stores with Ante:HostStores (defaults to ["Direct"]); changing the list requires a restart, not a rebuild. Local development lists the full CI checks.
To build the .NET solution with the .NET 11 SDK:
dotnet build Ante.slnx --configuration DebugAnte is licensed under the MIT License.