Developer & Contributor Guide
This section is for people who want to work on InterGenOS rather than just run it: build the system from source, understand how the installer and package manager are put together, extend the assistant, or take part in the security process. Every page here describes mechanism — how a piece actually works in the tree — so you can reproduce, modify, and verify it yourself.
- Contributing to InterGenOS — how to propose changes, the sign-off policy, and what the CI content gate checks.
- The Build & Release Pipeline — the candidate → proving-ground → promotion loop that carries a build from source to a signed ISO.
- Self-Hosted Builds — running the full from-source build on your own hardware, and the tooling it needs.
- Packaging & Package Manager Internals — the tier model, the two builders, and how
pkmrecords what it installs. - FORGE Internals — the installer’s phase order, front-end split, and the Secure Boot signing chain.
- AI Assistant Internals — the InterGen daemon, its routing and safety model, and the local model stack.
- ROCm-from-Source Build Pipeline — how the AMD compute stack is built from source and shipped mirror-only.
- Security Review & Advisory Process — how vulnerabilities are triaged, patched, and disclosed.
- Localization & i18n — where translatable strings live and how localization is organized.