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# Blurbs agent index

Standalone agent exports for blurbs that are otherwise embedded into homepage and overview pages.

- [Add and remove applications](/.agents/blurbs/add-and-remove-applications.md) — 3rd-party software distribution enables any urbit node to distribute software to the network, these commands help you manage your installed apps.
- [Azimuth-based Urbit IDs](/.agents/blurbs/azimuth-based-urbit-ids.md) — Azimuth identities are cryptographically owned Urbit address space on the Ethereum blockchain
- [Buy an Urbit ID](/.agents/blurbs/buy-an-urbit-id.md) — Learn how to acquire your own self-sovereign digital identity
- [Check and reduce memory usage](/.agents/blurbs/check-and-reduce-memory-usage.md) — Monitor and optimize your urbit's memory consumption
- [Check application info and status](/.agents/blurbs/check-application-status.md) — Running `+vats` will output the state of your apps and related metadata that can help with troubleshooting
- [Check your current sponsor](/.agents/blurbs/check-your-sponsor.md) — Understanding your networking sponsor can help with troubleshooting connectivity issues
- [Checking and fixing Azimuth state](/.agents/blurbs/checking-and-fixing-azimuth-state.md) — Monitor and repair your PKI state synchronization
- [Cloud Server](/.agents/blurbs/get-started-with-cloud-server.md) — Running in a virtual private server (VPS) affords easy solutions to things like DNS and remote access, at a marginal cost to tangible control of your data
- [Command Line](/.agents/blurbs/get-started-with-command-line.md) — Every Urbit OS server is made unique by its Urbit ID, which others can use to reach you on the network. There are five ranks of Urbit ID, but the one an ordinary user needs is a planet, which has a four-syllable name like "~sampel-palnet". Unless you know someone who can gift you one, or you want to get one from hosting provider like Tlon, you'll need to buy one.
- [Create a moon identity](/.agents/blurbs/create-a-moon-identity.md) — Spawn subordinate identities tied to your planet
- [Directly contact another urbit](/.agents/blurbs/directly-contact-another-urbit.md) — Urbit's most basic messaging protocol can send a quick hi in the dojo
- [Docking your urbit](/.agents/blurbs/docking-your-urbit.md) — Install a specific runtime version into your pier
- [Documentation for self-hosting urbit](/.agents/blurbs/docs-for-self-hosting-urbit.md) — The top guides for learning how to run your own urbit node
- [Get access code](/.agents/blurbs/get-access-code.md) — A secret code for remote access to your instance of Urbit OS
- [Get Started with Urbit](/.agents/blurbs/getting-started-with-urbit.md) — Ready to join the Urbit network? Get your own Urbit ID and start exploring a new way to compute.
- [Get the Urbit runtime](/.agents/blurbs/get-the-urbit-runtime.md) — Download the runtime binary for your host platform
- [Go Deeper](/.agents/blurbs/homepage-go-deeper.md) — Ready to explore more? Learn about Urbit's architecture, identity system, and the broader ecosystem of applications and tools being built on the network.
- [Groundwire-based Urbit IDs](/.agents/blurbs/groundwire-based-urbit-ids.md) — Groundwire identities are cryptographically owned Urbit address space on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- [Hosting Providers](/.agents/blurbs/homepage-hosting-providers.md) — While urbit is designed to be run by it's users, and so simple that caring for it would be as simple as caring for a cactus, it's not quite there yet. And some people aren't inclined to want to take on the burden of learning how to run their own urbit. If this sound like you, don't worry. Third party hosting providers can run your urbit on your behalf, while still maintaining many of the ownership characteristics that make urbit yours (in stark contrast to legacy cloud software.
- [Learn To Hoon](/.agents/blurbs/learn-to-hoon.md) — Hoon is Urbit's high-level, statically-typed, purely-functional programming language
- [Native Planet](/.agents/blurbs/get-started-with-native-planet.md) — Native Planet builds hardware and software for simplified home hosting of your Urbit
- [Off-network support channels](/.agents/blurbs/support-contact-points.md) — Not able to get onto the network at all? Here are some off-network channels for getting support
- [On-network support channels](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-support-groups.md) — Need help with something? Give a shout in one of these groups and someone will give you a hand
- [Partnerships and outreach](/.agents/blurbs/partnerships-outreach.md) — Reach out if you want to collaborate with the Urbit Foundation
- [Reduce your pier size](/.agents/blurbs/reduce-your-pier-size.md) — Compress and clean up your urbit's disk usage
- [Restart up your urbit after initial boot](/.agents/blurbs/start-up-your-urbit.md) — Restarting your urbit after intial boot is straightforward and doesn't require additional cryptographic secrets
- [Run urbit in a virtual server](/.agents/blurbs/run-urbit-in-a-vps.md) — Urbit runs seamlessly in any cloud server or datacenter you may already be familiar with
- [Run urbit locally](/.agents/blurbs/run-urbit-locally.md) — Quickly and easily run urbit on your laptop, or home desktop computer
- [Run Urbit Using Groundseg](/.agents/blurbs/run-urbit-using-groundseg.md) — Groundseg is free and open-source software for running urbits, developed by Native Planet
- [Run urbit using Native Planet hardware](/.agents/blurbs/run-urbit-using-native-planet-hardware.md) — Placeholder description
- [Running your Urbit](/.agents/blurbs/build-out-your-urbit.md) — Explore different ways to run your own Urbit, from Layer 1 to Layer 2 identities, cloud hosting to local self-hosting, with options for both developers and end users.
- [Select available loom size](/.agents/blurbs/select-available-loom-size.md) — Configure memory allocation for your urbit
- [Self-custody your Urbit ID](/.agents/blurbs/self-custody-your-id.md) — As a cryptographic asset, there are many ways to control and secure your Urbit ID
- [Self-Hosting](/.agents/blurbs/homepage-self-hosting.md) — Urbit is an attempt to build a computer that is truly yours, designed to last a lifetime, with which you can form trustworthy networks free of extractive middlemen. Part of that means a being a networked computer that can be run by it's users. That said, Urbit is still under active development, so self-hosting is currently most apt for users who aren't afraid of a little bit of tinkering. If that's not you, we recommend using a hosting provider instead.
- [Shortfalls of hosting providers](/.agents/blurbs/shortfalls-of-hosting-providers.md) — Hosting providers are designed to be scalable, not bespoke, operations.
- [Shut down your urbit](/.agents/blurbs/shut-down-your-urbit.md) — Gracefully stop your urbit instance
- [Start and stop applications on your urbit](/.agents/blurbs/start-and-stop-applications-on-your-urbit.md) — Control application lifecycles with dojo commands
- [Tlon Hosting](/.agents/blurbs/get-started-with-tlon-hosting.md) — Tlon Corporation is the preeminent hosting provider which provides free and seamless onboarding to the Urbit network
- [Tlon hosting services](/.agents/blurbs/run-urbit-with-tlon-hosting.md) — Tlon Corporation is the preeminent hosting provider which provides free and seamless onboarding to the Urbit network
- [Update Commands For Your Urbit](/.agents/blurbs/update-commands-for-your-urbit.md) — Your urbit is generally auto-updating, but in the event of an incompatible application or a kernel update that would conflict with existing apps, you may need to decide which software to run
- [Update your urbit runtime](/.agents/blurbs/update-your-urbit-runtime.md) — Keep your vere binary up to date
- [Urbit as overlay OS](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-as-overlay-os.md) — Urbit OS is a personal server operating system that runs on any Unix box as a self-contained virtual machine
- [Urbit ID incentives for hosts](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-id-incentives-for-hosts.md) — Cryptographic ownership of Urbit ID helps enforce honest operation of Urbit OS by hosting providers
- [Urbit master ticket wallets](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-master-ticket-wallets.md) — Master ticket wallets are an easy and secure way for managing ownership of your Urbit ID
- [Urbit Systems Technical Journal](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-systems-technical-journal.md) — Placeholder description
- [Urbit-related blogs](/.agents/blurbs/urbit-related-blogs.md) — A collection of written urbit content from the broader community
- [Why use a hosting provider?](/.agents/blurbs/why-hosting-providers.md) — Urbit is a personal server, yet there are still service providers who will host it for you