Development Guide

Chatter is a Rust 2021 project organised as a single binary crate. Key directories:

• src/cli — argument parsing and command wiring using clap
• src/chat — interactive chat runtime and terminal presentation using crossterm and ratatui
• src/api — provider-specific HTTP clients
• src/agent — tool definitions and execution
• src/config — persistent configuration management
• src/templates — reusable output templates

Building and Testing

cargo fmt
cargo clippy -- -D warnings
cargo test

Use cargo build --release for production builds. The build.sh script wraps a release build plus Homebrew packaging steps.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Implement the change and any relevant tests
4. Run the command suite above
5. Open a pull request with a summary of the change