Overview
Carbon is a manufacturing system: ERP for the office, MES for the floor. These are the technical docs.
Carbon is a manufacturing system: ERP for the office (orders, purchasing, planning, accounting) and MES for the floor (, , tracking). One platform over one data model.
These are the technical docs: exact behavior, fields, and operations. If you're new, start with the narrated Guide, which walks one order from the sales desk to a shipped, traceable satellite. Come here when you already know the noun you need and want the precise detail behind it.
How the docs are organized
How Carbon is built: apps, packages, database, events, jobs, and auth.
Run Carbon on your own infrastructure — a single VPS with Docker, or your own AWS account with SST.
Every variable that configures a Carbon instance, grouped by concern.
The entities behind the Guide: methods, reordering, routings, and more.
Build on Carbon
The service layer — read and write your data the safe way, over HTTP or MCP.
Direct table access — the escape hatch, when the Carbon API doesn't cover it.
Scoped secrets that let an external system call Carbon on your behalf.
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