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Corelia

One Platform. Infinite Possibilities.

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Overview

Corelia is an open-source, AI-powered, sovereign content management system (CMS) specification designed to provide a complete digital publishing platform that is secure, intelligent, extensible, and privacy-first.

Unlike traditional CMS platforms, Corelia is designed around an AI-first architecture with end-to-end encryption, modular services, modern APIs, and complete ownership of user data. Every major subsystem is designed as an independent module that can be enabled, disabled, replaced, or extended without affecting the rest of the platform.

Corelia serves as a complete platform for websites, blogs, documentation portals, e-commerce stores, communities, knowledge bases, intranets, digital asset management, enterprise publishing, and AI-driven applications.

Design Goals

• Open Source
• AI Native
• Sovereign by Design
• End-to-End Encrypted
• Modular Architecture
• API First
• Self Hosted
• Enterprise Ready
• Accessibility First
• Performance Focused
• Cloud Native
• Developer Friendly

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Core Features

Content Management

• Unlimited pages
• Unlimited posts
• Custom content types
• Nested page hierarchy
• Categories
• Tags
• Custom taxonomies
• Drafts
• Scheduled publishing
• Version history
• Rollback
• Content approvals
• Content workflows
• Publishing queues
• Bulk editing
• Rich text editor
• Markdown editor
• Block editor
• Media embedding
• Content relationships
• Cross references

AI Content Suite

• AI writing assistant
• AI rewriting
• AI summarization
• AI translation
• AI grammar correction
• AI readability improvements
• AI tone adjustment
• AI title generation
• AI excerpt generation
• AI FAQ generation
• AI schema generation
• AI metadata generation
• AI keyword suggestions
• AI content categorization
• AI tagging
• AI duplicate detection
• AI plagiarism detection
• AI image caption generation
• AI alt text generation
• AI content recommendations

SEO & LLM Optimization

Traditional SEO

• Meta title generation
• Meta descriptions
• Canonical URLs
• XML sitemaps
• Robots management
• Open Graph
• Twitter Cards
• Structured Data
• JSON-LD
• Breadcrumb generation
• Internal link suggestions
• Broken link detection
• Redirect management
• SEO audits
• Performance recommendations

AI & LLM Optimization

• LLM optimized page structure
• AI citation optimization
• Semantic content organization
• Entity extraction
• Knowledge graph generation
• AI discoverability scoring
• Prompt-friendly formatting
• AI search optimization
• AI answer optimization
• AI snippet optimization
• AI citation tracking
• Semantic relationships
• Vector indexing
• Embedding generation
• Retrieval optimization

Website Importer

Site Cloning

Import an existing website simply by entering a URL.

• Website crawling
• Page importing
• Blog importing
• Navigation importing
• Image importing
• Video importing
• Document importing
• CSS importing
• Metadata importing
• Sitemap importing
• RSS importing

Supported Platforms

• Drupal
• WordPress
• Joomla
• Squarespace
• Wix
• Ghost
• Hugo
• Jekyll
• Docusaurus
• HTML websites
• Static websites

AI Assisted Import

• HTML cleanup
• Content reconstruction
• Layout recreation
• SEO improvements
• Accessibility improvements
• Duplicate cleanup
• Navigation optimization
• Metadata enhancement

AI Search

• Natural language search
• Semantic search
• Hybrid search
• Vector search
• Contextual search
• Similar content search
• Related article recommendations
• Personalized search
• Knowledge graph search

End-to-End Encryption

• Client-side encryption
• AES-256 encryption
• TLS 1.3
• User managed keys
• Zero knowledge architecture
• Secure collaboration
• Encrypted media
• Encrypted pages
• Encrypted backups
• Secure sharing
• Hardware security module support
• Optional hardware keys
• Offline encryption

Security

• Multi-factor authentication
• Passkeys
• OAuth
• OpenID Connect
• SAML
• Single Sign-On
• RBAC
• ABAC
• Field level permissions
• Audit logs
• Security monitoring
• Threat detection
• Login alerts
• Rate limiting
• CSRF protection
• XSS protection
• SQL injection prevention
• Content Security Policy
• Session management

Sovereign Computing

• Self hosting
• VPS deployment
• Bare metal deployment
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Air-gapped deployment
• Multi-region deployment
• Data residency controls
• User-owned encryption keys
• Local AI models
• Offline operation

Collaboration

• Real-time editing
• Comments
• Reviews
• Approvals
• Editorial workflow
• Publishing workflow
• Task assignments
• Notifications
• Activity feeds
• Team workspaces

Media Management

• Image library
• Video library
• Audio library
• Document management
• AI image tagging
• AI facial recognition
• OCR
• Metadata editing
• Image optimization
• Automatic resizing
• CDN support

Commerce

• Product catalog
• Shopping cart
• Checkout
• Payment gateways
• Inventory
• Coupons
• Memberships
• Digital downloads
• Subscription billing
• Order management

Community

• User profiles
• Forums
• Private messaging
• Groups
• Events
• Notifications
• Reputation
• Moderation
• AI moderation

Forms

• Drag-and-drop builder
• Conditional logic
• File uploads
• AI validation
• Spam detection
• Captcha
• Workflow automation
• Webhooks

Analytics

• Visitor analytics
• AI insights
• Heatmaps
• Conversion tracking
• Funnel analysis
• SEO reports
• Content performance
• Search analytics
• AI usage analytics

Workflow Automation

• Visual workflow builder
• Event triggers
• Scheduled automation
• AI decision engine
• Notifications
• Email automation
• Webhooks
• API automation

Developer Platform

• REST API
• GraphQL
• Webhooks
• SDKs
• CLI
• Plugin SDK
• Theme SDK
• Extension SDK
• Developer documentation
• Testing framework

Plugin Marketplace

• Community plugins
• Premium plugins
• Plugin sandboxing
• Digital signatures
• Automatic updates
• Dependency management

Theme System

• Visual theme editor
• Block themes
• Component themes
• Child themes
• Live preview
• Export/import

API Integrations

• LDAP
• Active Directory
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Gitea
• Codeberg
• Discord
• Slack
• Matrix
• Mattermost
• Nextcloud
• S3
• MinIO
• SMTP
• IMAP
• WebDAV

AI Providers

Local Models

• Llama
• Mistral
• Gemma
• DeepSeek
• Phi

Hosted Providers

• OpenAI Compatible APIs
• Anthropic Compatible APIs
• Hugging Face
• Ollama
• LM Studio

Accessibility

• WCAG 2.2 support
• Keyboard navigation
• Screen reader support
• AI accessibility auditing
• Automatic alt text
• Contrast checking

Performance

• Static generation
• Server-side rendering
• Edge rendering
• CDN support
• Object caching
• Database optimization
• Image optimization
• Lazy loading

Deployment

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Windows
• macOS
• ARM
• x64
• Cloud
• VPS
• On-premises

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Modular Architecture

Corelia is organized into independent modules.

Core

• Authentication
• Users
• Permissions
• Content
• Database
• API
• Configuration

AI

• AI Engine
• LLM Manager
• Prompt Library
• AI Agents
• AI Search
• AI Automation

Security

• Encryption
• Identity
• Access Control
• Audit
• Compliance

Publishing

• Editor
• Media
• SEO
• LLM Optimization
• Publishing Workflow

Migration

• Website Importer
• Web Scraper
• Content Converter
• URL Mapper
• Redirect Manager

Commerce

• Store
• Orders
• Payments
• Inventory
• Memberships

Collaboration

• Teams
• Reviews
• Tasks
• Messaging

Extensions

• Plugins
• Themes
• APIs
• SDKs

Target Users

• Individuals
• Businesses
• Government
• Education
• Healthcare
• Nonprofits
• Agencies
• Publishers
• Developers
• Enterprise organizations

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Specification Branding License (SBL)

Standard

• Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
• Copyleft enforced for network deployments
• Required attribution:
  • Roxanne Ardary
  • https://www.roxanneardary.com/

Optional

• Specification Branding License (SBL)
  • Attribution-free commercial deployment
  • Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
  • https://roxanneardary.com/corelia/

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License & Notice Requirements

Corelia is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to this project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

• All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
• Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to:
  Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
• Corelia specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
• The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
  Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
• When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
• Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.

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Notice – Corelia

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

• Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – March 10, 2026
  Created the repository for Corelia. Established the foundation for an AI-powered, E2EE-secured, sovereign open-source CMS with integrated SEO/LLM optimization and web scraping import tools.
• [Add other contributors here] – [Date]
  [Describe contribution in one sentence]

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License – Corelia

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points:

• You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
• All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
• The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.