# Swarm Developer Notes A guide and planning/discussion living document to help with developing tools for working with Swarm. The scope does not include development of the VirES service itself, but how researcher-developers can interact with it. --- These pages are written in [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/) using the HackMD service. The pages are publicly accessible and anyone can comment on the pages (highlight anywhere). If you want write access to these pages, create an account on HackMD and email me at ashley.smith@ed.ac.uk - I can then give you permission by adding you to the `@swarm` group here. ---