NLWeb Setup

Before writing code

Fetch live docs first:

1. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb (README) for the current minimum Python version and required deps.
2. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/nlweb-hello-world.md for the canonical hello-world flow.
3. Fetch https://github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb/blob/main/docs/nlweb-cli.md for current nlweb CLI flags.
4. Web-search site:github.com/nlweb-ai/NLWeb docs/release_notes and read the most recent dated release note — config keys and required env vars change between releases.
5. Identify the default write_endpoint and verify which backends are enabled by default in config/config_retrieval.yaml on main.

Conceptual Architecture

What "setup" produces

A working NLWeb dev environment has four parts: