I am still trying to understand what this is (and install) but here is a link to Hypermerge document that would help you
https://github.com/automerge/hypermerge/blob/master/ARCHITEC...
One way to think about it: some of ink & switch's other projects use hypermerge to manage data/state e.g. https://github.com/automerge/pushpin. In farm, we use hypermerge for data and source code. As a result, not only are farm applications local-first*, the development and distribution of those applications is also local-first and collaborative.