docs: add Quickstart page to RTD

New docs/_source/quickstart.rst — install, two end-to-end paths
(Wikipedia 2003 + crawler), after-the-answer commands, query pipeline
overview, and links to deeper reference pages. Mirrors the README's
quickstart but adapts cross-references to the Sphinx structure.

Added to index.rst as a 'Getting started' toctree section above the
API modules — RTD users land on it first.
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Contents:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Getting started
quickstart
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 3
:caption: API Modules

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Quickstart
==========
Two end-to-end paths. Pick whichever corpus you want first; both share
the same query, verify, falsify, and inspect surfaces.
Install
-------
Aborist needs Python 3.10+, GNU make, ``curl``, and ``bzip2``. SQLite
3.35+ ships with CPython.
.. code-block:: sh
git clone https://git.unturf.com/engineering/unturf/aborist.git
cd aborist
make bootstrap # one-time: venv + dev extras
``make bootstrap`` creates ``.venv/``, installs the package in editable
mode with ``[dev,html]`` extras, and exposes ``aborist`` at
``.venv/bin/aborist``. No system-wide install. Re-running is a no-op
if the venv is up to date.
After bootstrap, every workflow lives behind a ``make`` target. Run
``make help`` (or see the auto-generated :doc:`api/makefile` reference)
to list them.
Path A — Wikipedia 2003 (canonical bootstrap dataset)
------------------------------------------------------
.. code-block:: sh
make fetch-cur # download 2003-05-16 snapshot (~82 MB)
make ingest-cur-attached # ~3 min: 128k articles, 4 parallel shards
make distill-shards-parallel # surface → core (first-sentence)
make distill-shards-tfidf-parallel # core → keyword sets for retrieval
make query Q="What is anarcho-capitalism?"
A Hermes-3 inference runs against the local corpus, picks 4–8 source
articles by Merkle root, and returns an answer plus a verifier label
that names what the lexical verifier could confirm. The four-rung
ladder for claim-lattice modes is ``POINTER-LINKED`` →
``ANCHOR-WARRANTED`` → ``EVIDENCE-WARRANTED`` → ``UNGROUNDED``
(with ``-PARTIAL`` suffix on HYBRID). Repeat the same question and a
cache hit replays in ~100 ms.
Path B — Crawl any live website and query it
---------------------------------------------
.. code-block:: sh
make bootstrap-crawler # one-time: install [crawler] extras
make crawl-ingest URL=https://russell.ballestrini.net DEPTH=2 # BFS + ingest
make query Q="who is Russell Ballestrini?" # cross-shard; picks up new shard automatically
The crawl shard is named after the seed hostname
(``crawl_russell_ballestrini_net.db``) under ``~/.aborist/shards/``.
``FAST=1`` enables aggressive crawling for your own sites; ``MAX=N``
caps discovery; ``DEPTH=N`` bounds BFS. Robots ``Disallow`` is always
honored. After ingest, ``make recrawl-check DOMAIN=...`` does a
conditional-HEAD freshness probe per page.
After the answer
----------------
.. code-block:: sh
make inspect KEY=<cache_key> # sidecar: classify each unverified span
make falsify KEY=<cache_key> REASON='…' # mark wrong, keep history
make burn KEY=<cache_key> REASON='…' # delete (kindergarten only — refuses if children exist)
The query path
--------------
Every query runs through the same pipeline:
1. **Search** — FTS5 (body) + SQL ``LIKE`` (title) + ``JOIN`` over
derivations (TF-IDF core keywords) across every shard.
2. **Concept overlay** — per-shard ``concept_relations`` SQLite table
widens retrieval via synonyms, narrows via rivalries unless the
query uses comparative phrasing.
3. **Context assembly** — top-K sources concatenated up to a 60 KB
budget. Wikitext stripped to plain prose.
4. **LLM** — Hermes-3 with strict attribution rules.
5. **Verifier** — every claim runs through a layered lexical check;
result rolls up into the v9.8 trichotomy
(``audit_mode ∈ STRICT / HYBRID / UNGROUNDED``) at the schema layer
AND a four-rung display ladder at render time.
6. **Cache** — the v9.8 8-dim ``cache_key`` keys the answer in the
shard. Cache hits replay in ~100 ms.
LLM endpoint defaults to ``https://hermes.ai.unturf.com/v1`` (Hermes-3
Llama-3.1-8B, 82K context, no auth). Override:
.. code-block:: sh
export ABORIST_LLM_ENDPOINT="https://your-vllm.example/v1"
export ABORIST_LLM_MODEL="meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct"
export ABORIST_LLM_API_KEY="..."
Where to next
-------------
* :doc:`api/makefile` — every ``make`` target with a one-line description
* :doc:`api/cli` — direct ``aborist`` CLI reference
* :doc:`api/qa` — Q&A pipeline internals (verifier, evidence, DAG)
* :doc:`api/substrate` — Merkle tree + document primitives
* :doc:`license` — full AGPL + Permacomputer Preamble