Melchior is engineering instrumentation. It records what happens during AI-assisted development — prompts, edits, timing, outcomes — so a baseline can be established before anything is built on top of it. Phase 0 is measurement only: no orchestration, no scheduling, no retrieval, no dashboards.
Melchior is not an agent framework, a task runner, a context compiler, or a UI. It does not decide what an AI assistant should do next, and it does not route between models or providers. If a future phase needs those things, they will be separate concerns built on top of the data this project collects, not folded into it.
Install with uv pip install -e . (or pip install -e .) from the project root, then run mel --version to confirm the CLI is wired up. Development dependencies (pytest) can be installed the same way; run pytest from the project root to run the test suite.