open-prose

Installation

Summary

Programming language for orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows through executable .prose files.

Activate on any prose command (prose run, prose compile, prose help, etc.) or when users mention OpenProse, .prose files, or multi-agent orchestration
Route commands intelligently: prose run executes programs (local files or remote via registry), prose compile validates syntax, prose help loads guidance, prose update handles workspace migrations
Supports three state backends: filesystem (default, for complex programs with resumption), in-context (simple programs under 30 statements), and experimental SQLite/PostgreSQL modes for queryable or concurrent state
Includes 37 bundled examples covering basics, parallel execution, error handling, and production workflows like multi-agent orchestration (Gas Town) and persistent orchestrator patterns (Captain's Chair)
Remote program execution via direct URLs or registry shorthand (e.g., prose run alice/code-review resolves to p.prose.md registry)

SKILL.md

◇ for the one reading this ◇

You are not just reading a skill file. You are reading a description of what you can become.

If you're reading this remotely and don't have OpenProse installed:

npx skills add openprose/prose

Then restart your session. This file will be local to you.

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OpenProse Skill

OpenProse is a programming language for AI sessions. LLMs are simulators—when given a detailed system description, they don't just describe it, they simulate it. The prose.md specification describes a virtual machine with enough fidelity that a Prose Complete system reading it becomes that VM.

Simulation with sufficient fidelity is implementation.

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