A-Novel developer guide

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A-Novel developer guideFrom a fresh machine to a running stack

Set up your machine, then work on any A-Novel project, by hand or with an AI agent.

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Working with AI

One workspace

Every A-Novel repository, across both GitHub organizations, in one checkout that a single command keeps in sync.

Set it up

Agent-ready

Agents start with the team's conventions loaded and drive the CLI for you. Every tool stays usable by hand.

Work with an agent

Local services

Start any service with everything it depends on, then follow it live from one terminal view.

Run services

Start here ​

A-Novel spans two GitHub organizations. a-novel holds the applications and business code of the A-Novel brand. a-novel-kit holds the shared libraries and tooling. The stack repository gathers them into one workspace, with the a-novel CLI to work across it.

Start your contributor setup.

Ask questions on Discord. Report security issues privately, through the security policy.

Sysadmins add their own setup on top.