pbrane is an IRC bot. pbrane has what people might consider NIH syndrome, however it is meant as an excercize in play and learning. Building: This is a huge mess right now. I would not attempt it unless you're familiar enough with both c++ and the project itself to figure it out on your own. You're always free to hit me up if it's taking me too long to update these instructions though. First of all, you may wish to change some constants in src/config.cpp . This will eventually move to a simple config file that doesn't require recompilation to see changes. Then run: make Or: tup Running: This can be as simple as (but probably isn't): ./bin/pbrane More likely you may wish to try: ./bin/rpbrane.sh Or try: ./bin/rpscript.sh <pscript name> # such as sl you can get a list of pscripts by looking in pscript/ Initially pbrane starts out as a blank slate. For common useful bits, pipe the newbot file to her: cat ./newbot.pbrane | ./bin/rpbrane.sh You may want to investigate the jitro project if you wish to get pbrane connected to a real IRC network.