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HELVE-ADE

HELVE is an Agentic Development Environment. The desktop shell hosts your development tools and the agents that drive them.

These pages tell you how to add a surface to HELVE.

Read in this order

1. App or Tool — pick the correct shape.
2. Build an App — the three edits that add one.
3. The Bridge API — what an app frontend calls.
4. The Rust Half — what answers those calls.
5. Verify Your Work — the four checks, and how to run the app.

Where the deeper account lives

This wiki names files in the repository. Clone the repository first.

Question	File
Which layer imports which	STANDARDS.md §1
App and tool boundaries	apps/README.md
The message contract	docs/tool-protocol.md
How the shell boots	docs/dev/architecture.md
What "done" means	STANDARDS.md §9

A note on the prose

These pages pass the repository linter at tools/ste_lint.py. The linter enforces plain technical English: short sentences, active voice, and no hedges. Lint your own edits before you push them:

python -X utf8 tools/ste_lint.py PATH --profile prose