{"path":"/guide/how-it-works/wf-store","content":{"title":"wf-store","summary":"The asset and retrieval service underneath Everything.","breadcrumbs":"[Everything guide](/guide) / [How Everything works](/guide/how-it-works)","body":"wf-store preserves immutable source assets, supports mutable tags and builds retrieval representations. Everything uses its supported front API and adds wiki-specific interpretation above it.\n\nAn asset is not a page by itself. Its source can be JSON, text or binary data; Everything's tags and policy determine whether it is a page revision, template or media asset and who can read it.\n\nRead [Assets, components and renditions](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/assets) for the data model, then [One corpus per environment](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/corpora) for namespace boundaries. [Ingestion and search readiness](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/readiness) explains why committed content can precede searchable content.\n\n[Search families and tradeoffs](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/search-families) introduces exact, lexical and semantic retrieval. [Retirement, preservation and recovery](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/retirement) distinguishes removing public eligibility from deleting source.\n\nPhysical search units and AWS function names are implementation details. They must not become the logical identity of a wiki page or the durable location encoded in its links.\n\n## In this section\n\n- [Assets, components and renditions](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/assets) — Keep original source separate from the text used for retrieval.\n- [One corpus per environment](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/corpora) — A namespace boundary, not a folder for each content type.\n- [Ingestion and search readiness](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/readiness) — Commit, preparation, admission and searchable publication are distinct milestones.\n- [Search families and their tradeoffs](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/search-families) — Different retrieval evidence, composed without inventing another content index.\n- [Retirement, preservation and recovery](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/retirement) — Remove an asset from normal interpretation without destroying its source.","navigation":"[Everything guide](/guide) · Section: [How Everything works](/guide/how-it-works) · Previous: [Repair over prevention](/guide/how-it-works/repair-philosophy) · Next: [Assets, components and renditions](/guide/how-it-works/wf-store/assets)","related":[{"title":"Architecture overview","url":"/guide/how-it-works/architecture"},{"title":"Search and browse","url":"/guide/reading/search"}]}}