Your team's documents sit in folders nobody can search, and the answer to a simple question hides on page 40 of a PDF someone saved last year. Pharos ingests PDFs, scans, Word documents, presentations, and spreadsheets into a local knowledge base, then answers questions against that library with citations traced back to the exact page. Hybrid retrieval finds the passages that matter, and every answer carries its evidence so readers can verify the claim in the source. Access control decides visibility per person: an API key resolves to an identity with a tenant and group memberships, retrieval filters hard to only the documents that identity may see, and a document with no permissions attached stays invisible to everyone. Two doors lead into the same library. The HTTP API runs a closed question-answering pipeline that retrieves, grounds, and answers in one call, and coding agents connect through MCP to decide for themselves when to retrieve, how to rewrite a query, and when a question needs multiple hops. A resident daemon keeps the search index and models warm, so every session shares one backend instead of reloading heavy resources. The deployment scales from one machine to replicated application tiers behind a load balancer. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.