The Deciduous Tutorial
A narrative guide to decision graph tooling for AI-assisted development.
Work smarter with careful rigor.
LLMs generate complex code fast. Reviewing it, understanding it, and maintaining it? That's on you. Deciduous gives you a structured record of every decision—what was considered, what was chosen, and why.
What You'll Learn
This tutorial will take you from zero to productive with deciduous. By the end, you'll know how to:
- Install and initialize deciduous in any project
- Create decision nodes and connect them into a graph
- Use deciduous with Claude Code for persistent AI memory
- Recover context when sessions end or compact
- Generate PR documentation from your decision graph
- Share decisions across a team with the patch system
- Use all three viewers: TUI, web, and CLI
Who This Is For
This tutorial assumes you:
- Work with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, etc.)
- Are comfortable with the command line
- Have experienced the frustration of lost context
No prior knowledge of decision graphs or graph databases is needed.
How This Tutorial Works
The tutorial is structured progressively:
- Hello, World! gets you running in about five minutes
- Real-World Workflows shows realistic Claude Code sessions
- Viewing the Graph covers TUI, web, and CLI interfaces
- Sharing with Others explains multi-user sync
- Advanced Topics covers power features
- Plumbing Reference documents every command
You can read it straight through, or jump to the section you need.