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This section contains guides to using your urbit.

- [Creating a Development Ship](creating-a-development-ship) will show you how to set up the environment for coding on Urbit.
- [Creating a Comet](creating-a-comet) will show you how to create a comet: quick, disposable 128-bit identities on the Urbit network.
- [Admin and Operation](admin) is a guide to the basic commands used to interact with your ship.
- [Messaging](messaging) tells you how to use Talk, our chat system.
- [Shell](shell) is a guide to using Dojo, our command-line interface.
- [Introduction to the Filesystem](filesystem) explains the basics of using use Clay, our revision-control filesystem.
- [Source Layout](layout) walks you through the various directories of the Arvo operating system.
- [Sail](sail) is a guide to Sail: Hoon markup that's used to build web pages with XML.
- [Udon](udon) is a guide to Udon, which is our take on Markdown.
- [Generators](generators) will explain how to use the "generator," a kind of file that's the easiest way to run Hoon programs.