// Walkthrough

Eight steps to ship the persona.

Demo mode is live by default at the deployed URL — every button returns canned-but-realistic responses so you can test the entire UX end-to-end without a backend. Wire keys for live agents.

Progress

0 / 8 steps walked

1 · Tune the persona

Open /persona. Drag any of 14 trait sliders — the sigil and trait radar morph live. Hit a Mood Preset for an instant DNA swap. Click 'Test Fire' to sample the voice in current state.

Open persona editor

2 · Forge a drop

Open /content. Type an intent (e.g. 'doctrine drop on sovereignty'), pick platforms, hit FORGE DROP. You'll see a hook + body + per-platform renders (Instagram caption, X post, Threads, etc).

Forge a drop

3 · Lock the brand bible

Open /visual. Color-pick the palette, edit style refs (Cathedral Noir / Cyberpriest / Luxury War / Meme Strike), define negatives. Every visual generation inherits this.

Edit visual identity

4 · Dispatch agents

Open /agents. Pick any of the 6 (strategist · copywriter · visual_director · distributor · analyst · memory_keeper) and dispatch with a JSON input. Or hit 'run autonomous drop' to chain strategist → copywriter → visual_director → distributor.

Dispatch agents

5 · Write a memory

Open /memory. Click 'write memory' — choose kind (EPISODIC / SEMANTIC / PROCEDURAL / AFFECTIVE / STRATEGIC), title, body, tags, weight. Memories feed the recall context for every future content generation.

Open memory graph

6 · Queue + schedule

Open /distribution. See queued posts grouped by platform + status (PENDING / SCHEDULED / PUBLISHING / PUBLISHED / FAILED). Real publishers wired for X + Discord — add tokens in env to fire.

Open distribution

7 · Read signal, adapt

Open /analytics. Click 'dispatch analyst' to read recent snapshots and propose bounded trait deltas. Toggle 'auto-apply' to mutate the persona automatically.

Read signal

8 · Run the autonomous loop

Open /workflow. Hit 'tick now' — runs one full cycle: ritual check → forge → queue distribution → publish-due → analyst proposes adaptation. Wire to Vercel Cron via vercel.json for daily ticks.

Run autonomous tick

Going live

Demo mode is just for the static preview. To make agents actually call Claude + persist to DB:

Provision Postgres (Supabase / Neon / Vercel Postgres / docker-compose) and set DATABASE_URL
Add ANTHROPIC_API_KEY + OPENAI_API_KEY
Deploy to Vercel (cron pre-wired in vercel.json) or self-host with npm run build && npm run start
Run npm run db:push && npm run db:seed once

See DEPLOY.md and TESTING.md in the repo for the full matrix.