# Layer — Community Edition

Search endpoint: https://hevlayer.com/api/ask/ce



- [Agents](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/agents): Query edition-scoped documentation locally or through the hosted ask endpoint.

- [Layer CLI](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/cli): Connect to the standalone gateway, inspect namespaces, and read CE documentation.

- [Concepts](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/concepts): Wire protocol matching, gateway enhancements, and the core terms used by the standalone gateway.

- [Standalone configuration](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/configuration): Configure Turbopuffer connections and inbound authentication without Kubernetes.

- [Document model](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/document-model): Client row fields and reserved gateway attributes.

- [Demos](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/demos): Live applications built on Layer — query routing, hybrid text fusion, semantic image search, and a full storefront workload — each composing shipped gateway features over a different corpus.

- [Guarantees](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/guarantees): Write, error, and operational commitments for the standalone gateway.

- [Introduction](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce): Run the standalone CE retrieval gateway in front of Turbopuffer, then write and query rows.

- [Failure Modes](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/failure-modes): Diagnose gateway, backing-store, authentication, and client failures.

- [FAQ](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/faq): Local setup, data storage, store selection, and source licensing.

- [Licensing](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/licensing): Source license and trademark terms for Community Edition.

- [Limits](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/limits): Request and resource limits for standalone retrieval.

- [Health and metrics](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/observability): Check gateway health, inspect metrics, and control anonymous telemetry.

- [Quickstart](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/quickstart): Start Layer in front of your Turbopuffer account, write rows, and run your first query.

- [Changelog](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/roadmap): What has shipped in hev layer, and what is coming next.

- [Tradeoffs](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/tradeoffs): The current product posture and the cases it is not trying to cover.

- [Data connections](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/data-supply): Find the API reference for vector stores and warehouses.

- [Embed](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/embed): Send text and images to Layer and it computes the vectors, either on CPU beside the gateway or on a GPU worker serving open-weights models you declare.

- [Federated query](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/federated-query): Query explicit namespaces and merge their results with store-aware ranking.

- [Introduction](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/introduction): Connect clients to the standalone gateway and authenticate to the selected store.

- [Lattice](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/lattice): A compact static retriever served in the gateway process, for text workloads where CPU throughput and deployment size outrank retrieval quality.

- [Response Headers](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/response-headers): Layer metadata returned alongside wire-compatible response bodies.

- [VectorStores](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/vectorstores): List standalone vector-store connections without exposing credentials.

- [Scan](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/scans): Select, count, and aggregate rows with live store scans.

- [Write](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/write): Write rows to the selected store.

- [Query & Fetch](https://hevlayer.com/docs/ce/api/query): Vector, text, hybrid, batch, and by-ID retrieval through the gateway.