Dictumal Documentation

Dictumal helps you draft a constitution for your computing life—translating what you believe into how your technology behaves, through conversation, research, and deliberation.

User Guide

Whether you’re creating your first constitution or deploying a constitutional computer, these guides walk you through every feature.

• Getting Started — Sign in, create a constitution, and understand the basics.
• Drafting Clauses — Use the AI chatbot to draft values, constraints, and policies.
• Managing Your Constitution — Edit, amend, view history, and organize your clauses.
• Groups Flows — Create groups, invite members, and run proposal deliberation.
• Deploying — Spin up a streaming-first cloud computer from your constitution.
• Instances Flows — Monitor, access, and destroy deployed cloud instances.
• Exporting — Export your constitution in JSON, YAML, Markdown, and other formats.

Developer Guide

Technical documentation for contributors and anyone interested in how Dictumal is built.

• Architecture Overview — Next.js App Router, Prisma, OpenRouter AI, and how it all fits together.
• Database Schema — Every model, enum, and relationship explained.
• API Reference — All REST endpoints with request and response shapes.
• Deploy System — DigitalOcean integration, cloud-init scripts, and streaming gateway behavior.
• Contributing — Local setup, environment variables, and development workflow.