ByteRover Knowledge Management

Use the brv CLI to manage your project's long-term memory. Knowledge is stored in .brv/context-tree/ as human-readable Markdown.

Install: npm install -g byterover-cli. No authentication needed. No LLM provider needed. brv query, brv search, brv read, brv curate, and brv vc (local version control) all run locally. Your own LLM drives any synthesis or HTML authoring step. Login is only required for remote sync (brv vc push / brv vc pull).

First-Turn Routing

Check this before anything else on every user turn.

If the user message reads as a request for an introduction, tour, or overview of ByteRover — for example:

• "Show me how ByteRover works" (canonical phrase from the install docs)
• "Walk me through ByteRover" / "Give me a ByteRover tour"
• "How does ByteRover work?"
• "Intro me to ByteRover" / "Show me ByteRover"
• Any semantic equivalent ("can you walk me through this", "explain ByteRover to me", etc.)

→ Stop reading this file. Open onboarding.md and follow it. Do NOT run brv query, brv search, or brv curate before the tour — the tour itself runs those commands as part of the demonstration.