omnigraph/docs/user/quickstart.md
Ragnor Comerford a68896c4a0
docs(readme): embedded quick-start run-through + trimmed Clients (#266)
* docs(readme): add embedded quick-start run-through + trim Clients

- Quick start: a copy-pasteable embedded (local file) run-through
  (schema → init → load → query → branch), followed by a "Storage backends"
  table that surfaces the one thing that changes across embedded / S3 object
  storage / RustFS-MinIO — the graph address — with a pointer to cluster mode
  for served multi-graph deployments.
- Clients: collapse to a two-line pointer (npm packages + omnigraph-ts repo);
  Python SDK marked coming soon.

* docs(readme,quickstart): fix init addressing + drop non-parsing schema commas

Addresses PR review (both verified against source):

- README "Storage backends": `init` takes the graph address as a positional
  argument, not `--store` (`Command::Init { uri: String }`) — Codex. Table now
  shows bare addresses and a note on which flag each verb uses.
- docs/user/quickstart.md: drop trailing commas in the schema. The .pg grammar
  (`prop_decl = { ident ~ ":" ~ type_ref ~ annotation* }`, node body
  `(prop_decl | body_constraint)*`, comma not in WHITESPACE) has no comma rule,
  so `name: String,` fails to parse — Greptile.
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# Quickstart
This walks the core loop end to end: define a schema, initialize a graph, load
data, query it, and use a branch. It uses a local file-backed graph; swap the
path for an `s3://…` URI to run the same flow against object storage.
[Install](install.md) the `omnigraph` CLI first.
## 1. Write a schema
A schema (`.pg`) declares your node and edge types. Save this as `schema.pg`:
```
node Person {
name: String
title: String?
}
```
See the [schema language](schema/index.md) for types, constraints, and edges.
## 2. Initialize the graph
```bash
omnigraph init --schema schema.pg graph.omni
```
`init` creates an empty graph at the given URI with your schema applied.
## 3. Load data
`load` is the single bulk-write command. `--mode` is required
(`overwrite | append | merge`):
```bash
omnigraph load --data people.jsonl --mode overwrite graph.omni
```
`people.jsonl` is newline-delimited JSON, one record per line. For finer-grained
or inline writes, see [mutations](mutations/index.md).
## 4. Query
Write a query (`.gq`) — save as `queries.gq`:
```gq
query find_people($title: String) {
match { $p: Person { title: $title } }
return { $p.name }
}
```
Run it:
```bash
omnigraph query find_people --query queries.gq \
--params '{"title":"Engineer"}' --format table --store graph.omni
```
The query name is positional; `--query` points at the `.gq` source and
`--store` addresses the graph's storage directly.
The [query language](queries/index.md) covers `match`/`return`/`order`, and
[search](search/index.md) covers vector and full-text search.
## 5. Work on a branch
Branches isolate changes until you merge them — Git-style, across the whole graph:
```bash
omnigraph branch create review/new-hires graph.omni
omnigraph load --data new-hires.jsonl --mode append --branch review/new-hires graph.omni
# inspect the branch, then integrate it
omnigraph branch merge review/new-hires --into main graph.omni
```
See [branches & commits](branching/index.md) and [merging](branching/merge.md).
## Next steps
- [CLI reference](cli/reference.md) — every command and flag.
- [Schema language](schema/index.md) and [query language](queries/index.md).
- [Operating a cluster](clusters/index.md) and [running the server](operations/server.md)
for multi-graph, multi-user deployments.