Software context for robostrategy. Cylinders indicate databases, rectangles indicate processes and software, and arrows indicate a flow of information. The fundamental catalog from which targets are drawn is in the database catalogdb. The target_selection pipeline selects specific targets and specifies desired cadences, and stores the results in targetdb. robostrategy takes these targets as inputs, and delivers a set of field locations, a set of designs to observe for each field, a desired LST distribution in which to observe the designs in each field, and a set of assignments of robots to targets in each design. The operations software system, guided by the observers, uses this information from targetdb to perform the observations and stores the as-observed set of configurations in opsdb. When designs are deemed completed, this information is included in future runs of robostrategy.