Hello, World!
Let's get deciduous running and create your first decision graph. This should take about five minutes.
What We'll Cover
In this chapter, you'll:
- Install deciduous via cargo
- Initialize it in a project
- Create your first nodes
- Connect them into a graph
- View the result
By the end, you'll have a working decision graph that you can explore with the TUI, web viewer, or CLI.
The Big Picture
A decision graph consists of:
- Nodes — goals, decisions, options, actions, outcomes, observations
- Edges — connections between nodes that show relationships
You create nodes as you work, connect them to show how they relate, and the graph becomes a queryable record of your development process.
The Core Rule
Log before you code, not after. The graph captures what you're about to do, not what you did. This keeps the record accurate and useful.
Let's get started.