Domain & Feature Packs
Make AthenaDB a specialist in your field
AthenaDB starts general on purpose. A pack teaches it a domain — the right structure, how to read your documents, and the workflows that matter — as a signed add-on that runs in a strict sandbox, so it only ever touches what it's allowed to. Legal, Medical, and Research are ready today.
How a pack works
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Manifest
A pack declares its object types, relationships, embedding namespaces, and the type-tags it is authorized to touch — plus the core version it needs. The core engine stays domain-agnostic.
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Sign & seal
The manifest is cryptographically signed into a sealed package. The signing key is held in a secure vault and never ships with the pack — so you can trust that a pack is exactly what its author published.
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Verify & load
At load time the runtime checks the signature and a core-version compatibility bound before allocating anything. An unsigned, tampered, or too-new pack fails closed and is never registered.
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Sandbox
Every pack touches data only through a sandbox that enforces its declared scope — reads and vector searches are limited to authorized tags and owned namespaces. Out-of-scope access is denied and audited. A pack can never bypass encryption, permissions, or audit.
Today the first-party packs ship compiled into the engine and are invoked as CLI subcommands. The signed seal → load → sandbox mechanism that makes packs true add-ons is built and tested; dynamic install and pack purchase are on the roadmap.
Pack families
Domain packs
Available nowVertical schema, ingestion, workflows, and RAG policy — Legal, Medical, Research today.
Embedding packs
PlannedSpecialized embedding models and vector configurations for a domain.
Connector packs
PlannedIngest from M365, Google Workspace, GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, MyChart, email.
Compliance packs
PlannedPolicies, audit templates, retention profiles, and export controls (HIPAA, CJIS-style, legal hold).
Deployment packs
PlannedAD/Entra, Azure, AWS, air-gapped, and field-gateway deployment profiles.
Domain packs available today
Legal
Available nowA litigation-grade case knowledge graph.
The deepest pack: a proof chain of Evidence → Fact → Element → Claim across 19 object types, with fact ledgers, a versioned case theory, discovery and privilege tracking, deadline computation, drift detection, and pre-filing checks.
ExploreMedical
Available nowEncounter-centric clinical records.
An EHR-aware pack built around the clinical encounter: 11 object types with FHIR R4, C-CDA, and MyChart/Epic ingestion, plus problem, medication, lab, vital, allergy, and immunization ledgers.
ExploreResearch
Available nowScholarly works, claims, and citations.
A research-corpus pack modeled on OpenAlex/CiTO/SciCite/SciFact: works, authors, venues, concepts, reified citation edges with intent, and SciFact-style claims — with deterministic reference parsing.
ExploreOn the roadmap
Construction
PlannedProject, submittal, and RFI modeling. Planned.
Government
PlannedPublic-records, FOIA, and retention workflows. Planned.
Cybersecurity
PlannedIncident, artifact, and IOC modeling. Planned.
Building a pack
The manifest is the contract: declare object types, relationships, and namespaces; implement deterministic extractors, rules, workflows, and context templates against the pack interfaces; sign it. The runtime loads it and confines it in a sandbox. The framework is built for third-party packs; a packaged, documented public SDK and third-party trust model are on the roadmap.

