Building Your First Distro

So you’ve downloaded the Kernel. Now what?

A Distro is simply a packaged set of state rules, system prompts, and memory persistence models. In this guide, we’ll build a simple ‘Trading Bot’ distro that monitors sentiment and simulates trades.

Step 1: Initialize

onde init my-distro

This creates the basic manifest. You’ll notice it looks a bit like a package.json, but with semantic routing definitions.

Step 2: Define the Core

The core of the distro is the intelligence loop. You don’t write if/then statements; you write directives.

Step 3: Deploy

Once you are satisfied in the local simulator, pushing to the network is instant. onde publish and you are live on the Marketplace.