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Should help us get off the ground a bit easier.
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+# What is this?
+
+This is Project Shodan, a project to research the fusion of novel hardware and
+software architectures to produce a low-power, ambient AI core. For more
+information, see our internal site at
+[sites/cerebrahardware/shodan](https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/cerebrahardware/shodan).
+
+## Developing in this Codebase
+
+We've stored our code in Gerrit, and like the Android developers before us, we
+use `repo` to manage the projects in our Gerrit repositories.
+
+To get started, first make sure you have a Git login for all our projects
+by going to [googlesource.com/new-password](https://www.googlesource.com/new-password)
+and pasting the provided script into a terminal.
+
+Now you need to pull down a copy of the `repo`
+tool from our public facing sites and add it to your path:
+
+```
+mkdir -p bin
+export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
+curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
+chmod a+x ~/bin/repo
+```
+
+Make sure you've initialized git with your name and email address, and have
+configured it properly for fetching the sources:
+
+```
+git config --global user.name "Your Name"
+git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
+```
+
+Once you've done this, you're actually ready to check out the sources. Make a
+new directory where you'd like it to live, and initialize `repo` with the
+current release branch.
+
+```
+repo init -u https://spacebeaker.googlesource.com/manifest
+repo sync -j$(nproc)
+```
+
+## Repository Layout
+
+Our layout is pretty simple:
+
+#### build/
+
+Contains build scripts for the whole tree. This is effectively just an
+orchestration layer to make building the whole shebang easier. Each subtree may
+have its own build systems and have their own ways of building.
+
+#### cicd/
+
+Contains continuous integration scripts and tooling for Jenkins, our CI/CD tool.
+
+#### docs/
+
+Lots of extra documentation (we hope) about how the repo is laid out, how the
+build system works, code reviews, licensing, etc.
+
+#### manifest/
+
+The repo manifest used to glue all the git repositories together.
+
+## More Information
+
+ - [Information on how to use repo](https://go/repo)
