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title: "Contribute"
description: "Set up a development checkout, understand the source layout, and follow the release process."
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> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.chickpea.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Contribute

Chickpea is Apache 2.0 licensed and developed in the open at [pejmanjohn/chickpea](https://github.com/pejmanjohn/chickpea). Verification runs locally by design; there is no hosted CI to wait on.

- **Development** — Set up a checkout, run the local verification gate, and open a pull request. [Read it](/contribute/development).
- **Architecture** — The source map, the two build targets, the Flue agents, and the work ledger. [Read it](/contribute/architecture).
- **Releasing** — Cut a release: the three gates, the export allowlist, and a tag that never moves. [Read it](/contribute/releasing).

Source: https://docs.chickpea.co/contribute/index.mdx