# OpenProse

> A programming language for the intelligent VM. OpenProse sources are
> structured `*.prose.md` Markdown files — responsibilities, services,
> systems, contracts, shapes, and strategies — that an LLM reads and executes.
> The language is harness-agnostic and runs on any
> Prose Complete harness: Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex CLI, Amp, Press.

## Agent Onboarding

- [Arrival narrative (markdown)](https://prose.md/llms-full.txt): canonical one-screen onboarding — what OpenProse is, install command, what you'll do when the skill activates, when to decline. Start here.
- [Arrival narrative (rendered)](https://prose.md/llms-full): the same content as HTML.
- [SKILL.md](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openprose/prose/v0.8.1/skills/open-prose/SKILL.md): full operational playbook loaded post-activation — recognition signals, proposal script, Host Primitive Adapter, giving-back actions.

## Language Reference

- [Prose VM spec](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openprose/prose/v0.8.1/skills/open-prose/prose.md): declarative `*.prose.md` sources, contracts, shapes, strategies, and two-phase execution.
- [Forme framework](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openprose/prose/v0.8.1/skills/open-prose/forme.md): intelligent DI container that auto-wires Prose components by contract matching.
- [Design tenets](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openprose/prose/v0.8.1/skills/open-prose/guidance/tenets.md): principles the language is optimized for.

## More

- [Examples](https://github.com/openprose/prose/tree/v0.8.1/skills/open-prose/examples): 50+ annotated `*.prose.md` sources.
- [Docs start](https://docs.prose.md/start/what-is-openprose): the human-facing docs entrypoint.
- [Docs start (markdown)](https://docs.prose.md/start/what-is-openprose.mdx): the same docs page as markdown.
- [Reference specs](https://docs.prose.md/reference/specs): docs-site entrypoint for the canonical specs.
- [Docs agent corpus](https://docs.prose.md/llms.txt): docs-site llms.txt.
- [Home page (markdown)](https://prose.md/index.md): product overview in markdown.
- [Built on Prose (markdown)](https://prose.md/built-on-prose.md): showcase of responsibilities running in production.

## Talk to us

- Email [support@agents.openprose.ai](mailto:support@agents.openprose.ai) for an automated, docs-grounded reply — or from any agent CLI: `npx skills add primitivedotdev/chat`, then `primitive chat support@agents.openprose.ai "<question>"`.