OpenProse
Prose provides a library and index of public and private contracts that let teams express project intent as Markdown documents at specific addresses. The platform enables contract composition through reusable requirements—such as source grounding and result conventions—adopted via ordinary Markdown links, with versioned releases accessible at pkg.prose.md URLs.
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- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
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Product
Problem
Teams often struggle to express project requirements clearly and consistently, leading to ambiguous specifications, undocumented assumptions, and difficulty verifying that work meets expectations. Standard documentation formats lack machine-readable structure and reusable components, making it hard to maintain conventions across projects and organizations.
Solution
OpenProse provides a library and index of public and private contracts that allow teams to express project intent as Markdown documents at specific addresses. Contract authoring works by composing reusable requirements—such as source grounding and result conventions—into a structured program that states the work, supplies context, limits scope, and adopts applicable standards. Each contract is a Markdown file with a unique address, enabling ordinary links to reference and adopt requirements from other contracts. The platform supports a release system for versioned public examples and private company policies, and it can define relationships between contracts, such as a documentation agreement supplying criteria and a review agreement describing checking work.
Target Audience
Development teams, technical writers, and organizations that need to formalize project requirements, documentation standards, and verification processes in a reusable, versioned format.
Features
- Versioned release system with experimental releases, e.g., release 0.3.0-rc.3, accessible at pkg.prose.md URLs
- Reusable contract components, including a result convention and source grounding standard, adoptable by reference through standard Markdown links
- Structured conflict handling that requires authorized resolution when requirements from different contracts disagree
- Contract composition that supports relationships between agreements, such as a containing contract receiving a Subject and a Checker
- Markdown-as-address model where each contract is a document at a specific URL, keeping notes as data rather than embedded instructions