Documentation
Welcome to Jorv Builder (Jorv Builder) — an AI-native desktop environment for software development. These docs explain how Jorv Builder works, how to set it up, and how to recover when something goes sideways.
Start here
- Quick Start — install Jorv Builder, open a project, ask Orbit something. ~5 minutes.
- Keyboard Shortcuts — every shortcut Jorv Builder ships with.
Concepts — what the things ARE
If you're trying to understand why Jorv Builder is shaped the way it is, start here.
- Mission Board — the living dashboard for all work
- Brainstorm-First — every Review opens via conversation
- Orbit (the brain) — the AI copilot at the centre of Jorv Builder
- Auto-Commit — commits aren't a separate step
- Compliance Center — 21+ expert audits, present-tense findings
- Ralph Loop — autonomous iteration in an isolated worktree
- Lab vs Direct Build — where work runs and why
How-to — step-by-step recipes
Practical setup and recovery tasks.
- Configure OpenAI — needed for voice input and some experts
- Configure GitHub Sync
- Configure Firebase Feedback
- Run an Expert Audit
- Recover from a bad doc edit
- Dismiss audit findings as stale
Troubleshooting — when something is broken
Symptom-first guides. Find the page that matches what's actually happening on your machine.
- Voice input — text doesn't appear when I speak
- OpenAI key — keeps showing "invalid" or "untested"
- Push failures — Mission Board icon turned red
- Auto-resume — opened the wrong project
Integrations
Jorv Builder connects to external services on your terms — your keys, your infrastructure.
Reference
Deep dives for power users.
Release notes
See Release Notes for the changelog.
Help us
- Report an issue
- Edit any of these pages on GitHub (link at the bottom of every doc)