Documentation
Everything in detail, so the README doesn't have to carry it all. This is the contents page.
Streamlined
New here? Read these three in order and ignore everything else until something goes wrong: Without a terminal → Installation → Your first chronicle.
Getting started
- What you need installed — the two required things, and the optional ones
- Installation — install and first run, start to finish
- Without a terminal — the same setup with no command line at all
- Your first chronicle — end to end, including what to do if a run stalls
Bringing a session in
- Three ways in — which route suits your table
- A transcript — paste text from anywhere; nothing to install
- Session audio — Craig multitrack and loose audio, transcribed on your machine
- YouTube captions — let YouTube transcribe; no GPU needed
Writing the chronicle
- How the phases work — what each of the six phases does
- Recommended settings — sensible defaults, and when to move off them
- Reforging — redo the later phases on a different model without starting over
Models & cost
- Choosing a provider — Gemini, OpenRouter, a subscription, or fully local
- Per-phase routing — which model should run which phase, and why
- What it costs — per-session figures for every route
Extras & integrations
- All extras — the optional half; only one of them installs anything
- Audio Transcription · whisper.cpp bridge · Local LLMs
- Personas · Claude Code · Codex
- Obsidian vault lore · Tusk's Vault
Settings & files
- Configuration — every setting, environment variable, and file on disk
Privacy & safety
- Security and privacy — what stays local, what leaves, what is encrypted
- What it installs — the honest version, including what could go wrong
Troubleshooting
- FAQ — the questions that actually get asked
- Known issues — what's broken, and what's merely awkward
- Diagnostic bundles — what to send when a run fails
About Tusk's Tomes
- Everything it does — the full capability list
- Who it's for — whether this is built for your table
- How it compares — against the tabletop services, meeting transcribers and doing it yourself
- How it's built — the architecture, in detail
- Changelog — what changed between versions
- Roadmap — shipped, in progress, and deliberately not doing
- Contributing · Security policy · Code of conduct