Next Steps

Where to go after the tutorial, depending on what you need next.

You have created resources, recorded a process run, and queried the result. The rest of the documentation is organized by what you are trying to do.

Pick your next move

If you want to…	Go to
Model your own experiment’s resources	Create a Resource Template
Model a multi-step workflow	Create a Process Template
Find and filter your records	Query Resources
Trace a result back to its inputs	Trace Provenance
Share a database with colleagues	Set Up a RECAP Server
Understand why RECAP is designed this way	Explanation
Look up an exact signature	API Reference
Look up a term you have seen but not understood	Glossary

How the documentation is organized

The four sections answer different kinds of question, so it is worth knowing which one you are in.

Getting Started (this section) teaches through a worked example. Read it in order, once.

How-To Guides are task recipes for people who already know the concepts. Each answers one “how do I…?” question and assumes you do not want a tutorial.

Explanation covers why RECAP works the way it does: the data model, the query and loading model, authentication and authorization, and the REST architecture. Read it when a design decision seems surprising and you want the reasoning.

Reference Guides and the generated API Reference are lookup material: the glossary, server configuration fields, CLI flags, and exact signatures. Nobody reads these front to back.

Going remote

The code you wrote in this tutorial works unchanged against a shared server. Only the client construction changes:

# Local
client = RecapClient.from_sqlite("experiment.db")

# Remote
client = RecapClient.from_url("https://recap.example.org", api_key="...")

Everything after that line, namespaces, builders, and queries, behaves the same. See Set Up a RECAP Server to run one, or Authenticate a Remote Client to connect to one that already exists.