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 Welcome to the Galactic Bot repository.  
 I've decided to open this up as I struggle to find motivation and time to work on this, so contributions welcome.  
 
-I do require that any contributions conform to the linter rules present and code should strive to be legible and follow generally good programming practises. Pull requests must explain what they change/add and why.
+I do require that any contributions conform to the linter rules present and code should strive to be legible and 
+follow generally good programming practises. Pull requests must explain what they change/add and why.
 
 Discussion and questions are to be had in the [discord server](https://discord.gg/WDCTKGp).
 
-I will hopefully expand on this file and add others to help document this project, as it stands there is very little internal documentation.
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+I will hopefully expand on this file and add others to help document this project, as it stands there is very little internal documentation.  
+Internal/technical documentation will be in the source files adjacent to the code.
+
+## Getting started
+### Requirements
+- Node.js (unsure what the lowest supported version is, but I work with v22.2.0)
+- MongoDB (7.0.6 as of writing this)
+- MariaDB (TBD)
+- RabbitMQ (maybe, TBD)
+
+### Running
+- Install the dependencies: `yarn install`
+- Run the bot: `yarn start`
+
+If you run into an error about yarn missing, run [`corepack enable`](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/corepack.html).
+
+### Developing
+The workflow for this is not particularly formal as this has been mostly a solo project as of recent.
+- Make a new branch and name it after the feature/contribution
+- Make sure the code you write complies with the linter rules
+- Make sure your code runs and works as intended.
+- Write descriptive commits. If you're changing/adding a lot of different things, combine them theme/feature wise into separate commits.
+- Open a new pull request to the development branch with a description of the changes.
+
+The deployment flow is as follows:
+New feature branch -> development (local bots) -> alpha (QA) -> beta (GalacticTest) -> main (GalacticBot)
+
+## TODO
+- Unit tests
+- Proper workflows with gitea actions.
+  - Linter
+  - Build test
+  - Unit tests
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