Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5
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Three pull requests against toy issues arrived from agents that farm open issues for contribution stats. None had said a word to the project, and none disclosed that AI wrote them. CONTRIBUTING.md now says, in plain words, how MeshTerm was made and who it wants: people who use it, AI-assisted or not. Before writing code, a contributor says hello in the new #contributing channel on Discord and waits for a yes; the pull request carries their Discord username and a link to that yes. AI use has to be disclosed in the commits and the pull request; undisclosed or unattended agent output is closed without review. The PR template, the README's two notes on pull requests, and the docs index all said small fixes could skip the conversation, and now match. The release skill's commit carries the AI trailer its seven release commits went out without. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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MeshTerm documentation
Everything that didn't belong on the front page. The README is the front door — what MeshTerm is, how to install it, and enough to get a first session running. This folder is the rest.
Using MeshTerm
| Read | For |
|---|---|
| What MeshTerm does | Every screen the menu offers, grouped the way the menu groups them, with the command that does the same job without it. |
| The command line | The manual. Every subcommand and option, what each prints on the plain and JSON faces, the exit statuses, and recipes built on jq. |
| The CLI cookbook | Common one-liners by task, for when you want the shape of a command rather than its specification. |
| Configuring MeshTerm | Preferences versus config, device profiles, and everything kept under ~/.meshterm. |
| When a companion won't connect | Bluetooth pairing on each system, finding the PIN, and every connection error MeshTerm reports, with what to do about it. |
| Terminals, icons, and the Windows console | Why the icons and charts draw on some terminals and not others, and what MeshTerm does about it on Windows. |
Putting it on hardware
Only if you want MeshTerm running on a handheld's own screen. A MeshCore companion on USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi needs none of this.
| Read | For |
|---|---|
| MeshTerm on hardware | Start here — which of the two manuals below is yours, and what the device-side scripts do. |
| MeshTerm on the PicoCalc | A stock ClockworkPi PicoCalc to a Linux handheld with a LoRa radio soldered inside: the shopping list, the Lyra swap, Calculinux, and the radio. |
| MeshTerm on the uConsole | A uConsole with the hackergadgets AIO LoRa board, whose SX1262 sits on the host's own SPI bus — MeshTerm drives it directly with --spi, or a small bridge fronts it as a companion for an always-on node. |
Reading the code
| Read | For |
|---|---|
| How the code is laid out | The layering, and where a new feature goes. |
| CLAUDE.md | The actual style guide — terminology, UX standards, and the reusable building blocks. Written for AI assistants, and the house rules for everyone. |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | How to propose a change, the rules on AI use, the dev install, the three checks a change must pass, and what happens to your contribution's licensing. |
Historical record
A survey of the code, kept because a project that writes down its own problems is easier to trust than one that doesn't — but it is a snapshot of a date, not a to-do list. Some of what it describes has been fixed since, and it does not mark which.
| Read | For |
|---|---|
| UI consistency survey | Everything else in the CLAUDE.md UX standard — six sweeps found nothing, which is the useful part. |
Also here
screenshots/ holds the captures the README shows and the ones
meshterm.net builds its landing page from, so a file in there is
referenced from more than one place.