# Overview

> Fix a guide, build the addon from source, and learn how the modules, the toolchain and the simulator fit together.

Page: https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors (Polestar docs > Contributors)

Polestar is open source, and most of it is plain text: the guides, the
toolchain (Node, with no npm dependencies) and the addon's Lua. A wrong step
fixed in a `.guide` file reaches every player in the next release.

## Start with

- [Contributing](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/contributing): the ways to help, a good
  wrong-step report, fixing a guide, setup, checks, branches, and how a pull
  request is reviewed.
- [Building from source](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/building): clone, build the
  reference data and the addon, and run the checks.
- [From source to game](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/source-to-game): how a `.guide`
  file becomes the steps in the guide window.
- [Map and glossary](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/docs-map): where each question is
  answered, how data flows, and the words the docs use.

## How it fits together

- [Architecture](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/architecture): the contract between the
  addon's modules, the compiled guide data, the toolchain and the tests, one
  page per module.
- [The addon, file by file](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/addon), [the toolchain](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/tools)
  and [the tests](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/tests): the repository's own guides to
  its three main folders.
- [The suite](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/suite): the modules and their scope, the data
  layer and the in-game data addons.
- [Route simulation](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/simulation): the world model, the
  character model, the search and its results.
- [Design system](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/design): who the windows are for, and the
  colour, type, layout and component tokens.
- [Agent workflows](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/workflows): the checklists a
  contributor's AI agent follows, for contributing, triage and guide fixes.
- [Releasing](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/releasing): what ships, and the steps for
  feature releases, patches and release candidates.

> **Tip:**
> Every page here comes from the Polestar repository. **Edit on GitHub** at
> the top of a page opens its source on the `next` branch, where pull requests
> go.

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