AList is a self-hosted file listing and sharing gateway written in Go. In production it aggregates over 100 distinct storage backends — local disk, Aliyun Drive, OneDrive, Google Drive, S3, Baidu, PikPak, Thunder, WebDAV mounts, FTP/SFTP servers, and more — behind a unified virtual file tree, then exposes that tree simultaneously through a web UI + REST API, WebDAV, an S3-compatible object storage endpoint, FTP, SFTP, and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool server. It is a monolithic Go application (Gin + GORM) deployed as a single binary or Docker container, with a rich feature surface: role/permission-based multi-user access with path-scoped grants, password-protected time-limited shares with burn-after-read and download tracking, pluggable search backends (Meilisearch, Bleve, database full-text, no-index), offline downloads via aria2/qBittorrent/Transmission plus cloud-native tools, archive extraction (zip/7z/rar/iso9660), device session limits, rate limiting, SSO/LDAP/WebAuthn auth, and an FRP reverse-proxy client for NAT traversal.