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+# MIND - Modular Inference & Node Database
+Version: Milestone-1
+
+## Setup
+This will create and setup a `SQLite` database if `mind.db` doesn't
+exist under [`backend/`](`backend/`).
+
+Also see [`backend/README.md`](`backend/README.md`).
+
+### Getting a llama.cpp instance
+`llama.cpp` is included as a third-party git submodule under
+[`third_party`](`third_party/`).
+
+A script for grabbing a Qwen 3 1.7B LLM model from HuggingFace is at
+[`backend/get-qwen3-1.7b.sh`](`backend/get-qwen3-1.7b.sh`).
+
+The default location for the `Go` layer of the backend to access the LLM
+service is `localhost:8081`.
+
+*Please consider adding the `-n <num-of-tokens-to-predict>` option to
+avoid infinite generation on smaller models*
+
+### Running the backend layer
+Run `go run ./backend/main.go`, which will start a backend instance at
+`localhost:8080`.
+
+Note that if `mind.db` doesn't exist in the working directory, it will
+be created and be initialized by the code in
+[`backend/db/migrations`](`backend/db/migrations`).
+
+### DB-related
+All db-related operations (e.g. queries) are under
+[`backend/db`](`backend/db`).
+
+## Running tests
+To run tests, we provide a simple CLI-based frontend client at
+[`backend/cli.py`](`backend/cli.py`).
+
+This will include all of the features supported or under development.
+
+## Current features (and features under development)
+A short video demo of basic functionality on the CLI can be found
+under [`milestone-1/demo.mp4`](`milestone-1/demo.mp4`).
+
+The specific APIs used are given in [`backend/design.md`](`backend/design.md`).
+
+| Action                            | Command / Description                                                        |
+|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Start conversation                | `\new <title> <owner_id>`                                                    |
+| Commit (prompt/answer or node)    | Free text → `/completion` or `\node <user\|assistant> <content> [parent_id]` |
+| Fork branch                       | `\branch <name> [head_node_id]`                                              |
+| Delete branch or node             | `\delbranch <name>` or `\delnode <node_id>`                                  |
+| Extract subset as new tree        | `\extract <title> <node_id ...>`                                             |
+| Merge two branches                | `\merge <left> <right> <left-first\|right-first>`                            |
+| Detach branch to new conversation | `\detach <branch>`                                                           |
+| Append / copy tree to another     | `\append-tree <src_conv> <src_branch> [dst_conv [dst_branch]]`               |
+| List conversations                | `\listconvs <owner_id>`                                                      |
+| List branches                     | `\listbranches <conversation_id>`                                            |
+| Linearize current branch          | `\linearize`                                                                 |
+| Debug llama-server directly       | `\llama <prompt>`                                                            |
+| Switch conversation / branch      | `\useconv <id>` and `\usebranch <name>`                                      |
+| Show current user                 | `\who`                                                                       |
+
+For a more detailed experience, it's strongly recommended to run the
+backend locally and trying out the CLI.
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