music-assistant/DEVELOPMENT.md

Development Setup

Secrets

Runtime secrets are read from the local process environment.

Copy .env.example to .env for local notes if needed, but do not commit real credentials. The application must not hard-code API keys or authorization headers in source files.

Current environment keys:

• MUSIC_ASSISTANT_OPENAI_API_KEY

Provider integrations are intentionally protocol-only in the repository foundation phase.

Packaging

Run make install-app to build the release executable, package it as AI Music Studio.app, install it in /Applications, and launch it.

Set APP_ICON=/path/to/icon.icns when packaging with a custom icon.