DevContract is an open-source repo-first tool for developer onboarding, local setup contracts, and encrypted .env sharing.

It is built for teams that still onboard people through stale docs, copied .env files, chat messages, and tribal knowledge. DevContract lets the repository describe how local development should work, helps teammates receive shared config more safely, and keeps local revision history encrypted on each machine.

Most teams do local setup with some messy mix of:

• README steps that drift over time
• copied .env files in chat or DMs
• hand-written onboarding checklists
• "ask someone on the team" as the real setup process

DevContract tries to replace that with one repo-owned contract for setup, health checks, and shared local config workflows.

• The repo can declare a local setup contract in .devcontract/contract.yaml
• The CLI can bootstrap, validate, and run that contract
• Shared .env updates can move directly between…