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Documentation

The design notes, the thinking dial, the MCP market, plugins and deployment — rendered from the repository's docs/ at build time, plus the command reference from the README.

1. 01

   Command reference

   Requires Bun ≥ 1.3.14 (the CLI entry is TypeScript, executed by bun — node cannot run it).

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2. 02

   Interface design

   Rovecode ships no default look. There is no built-in palette, no safe typeface, no house layout, and nothing carries over from the last project.

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3. 03

   Thinking: one dial, every wire

   rovecode has one effort dial — --effort, ROVECODE_EFFORT, /effort — with five positions: auto | off | low | medium | high (src/core/types.ts ThinkingEffort).

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4. 04

   The market: one command for MCP servers, skills and plugins

   rovecode market is one door to three kinds of thing rovecode can install.

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5. 05

   The MCP market

   rovecode mcp … on a shell and /mcp in the TUI find MCP servers and put them in your mcp.json.

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6. 06

   Context and cost: what the vendors say, and what rovecode does with it

   Two numbers describe every turn and they are not the same thing. The estimate is ours: o200k over everything we are about to send, available before a request and for a session that never ran.

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   Plugins

   A plugin is a folder with a plugin.json.

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8. 08

   Deploying the site and running the server

   The site (site/) is static: Vite builds it, nginx serves it, and nothing on the server runs Node.

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