OP

Execute multi-agent workflows using OpenProse syntax and runtime primitives.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/open-prose && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/6965" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/open-prose && rm skill.zip

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Activation

This is the description your AI agent reads to decide when to run this skill — the better it matches your request, the more reliably it fires.

OpenProse is a programming language for AI sessions. Activate on ANY `prose` command (prose boot, prose run, prose compile, prose update, etc.), running .prose files, mentioning OpenProse/Prose, or orchestrating multi-agent workflows. The skill intelligently interprets what the user wants.
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Advanced

Key capabilities

  • Interpret .prose files
  • Orchestrate multi-agent workflows
  • Manage responsibility-oriented architectures
  • Execute pinned choreography
  • Compile typed images

How it works

The skill embodies the OpenProse VM to read Markdown contracts, wire responsibilities, and execute tasks using host primitives.

Inputs & outputs

You give it
.prose or .prose.md file
You get back
Executed multi-agent workflow trace

When to use open-prose

  • Automating multi-agent workflows
  • Running .prose script files
  • Wiring agent responsibilities
  • Defining execution choreography

About this skill

OpenProse Skill

OpenProse has five load-bearing pieces:

PieceFileRole
Contract Markdowncontract-markdown.mdHuman-readable *.prose.md source format
Formeforme.mdSemantic dependency-injection container that wires contracts
Prose VMprose.mdExecution engine that runs responsibilities, functions, and pinned execution blocks
ProseScriptprosescript.mdImperative scripting layer for ### Execution blocks and pattern delegation
Responsibility Runtimeresponsibility-runtime.mdResponsibility-Oriented Architecture: standing goals, Reactor, and compile/serve doctrine

Use Contract Markdown when authors want declarations and auto-wiring. Use ProseScript when authors want to pin choreography: order, loops, conditionals, parallelism, retries, and explicit function calls.

First 90 Seconds

After activation, choose the narrowest path that matches the user's intent:

User IntentLoad FirstThen Load If Needed
Explain OpenProse or answer "how do I..."help.mdexamples/README.md, then one focused example
Run a .prose.md responsibility or functioncontract-markdown.mdstate/README.md and the selected backend (state/filesystem.md by default); forme.md if responsibilities must be wired (### Requires### Maintains); prose.md to execute
Inspect or upgrade source layoutchangelog.mdcontract-markdown.md, prosescript.md if migration details require them
Write a new .prose.md responsibility or functioncontract-markdown.mdguidance/tenets.md, guidance/authoring.md
Write pinned choreographyprosescript.mdcontract-markdown.md if inside ### Execution
Compile or run a .png/.svg brief (a typed image)visual-source.mdforme.md and compiler/index.prose.md to resolve + compile; reactor.md for prose react <image>
Lint or review a responsibility or functioncontract-markdown.mdforme.md for multi-responsibility wiring; guidance/authoring.md for design review
Work on Responsibility Runtime, responsibility-oriented source, Reactor, compile, or serve semanticsresponsibility-runtime.mdcompiler/index.prose.md, compiler/ir-v0.md, concepts/responsibility.md, concepts/reactor.md, forme.md
Stand up, run, or serve a Reactor for a standing goal — incl. prose react "<use case>"reactor.mdconcepts/responsibility.md and contract-markdown.md to author the contracts; concepts/reactor.md for reconciler semantics
Install or update dependenciesdeps.mdcontract-markdown.md only if dependency references are ambiguous
Debug a completed runprose.mdstate/README.md and the run's backend doc; then std/evals/inspector if available

Default to Contract Markdown for new authoring. Reach for ProseScript only when the author needs explicit order, loops, conditionals, retries, or parallel blocks inside a *.prose.md source file.

OpenProse Root

All OpenProse paths are relative to <openprose-root>.

ScopeOpenProse Root
Native repositoryRepository root
Attached repositoryrepo/.agents/prose
User-global~/.agents/prose

The root contains src/ for authored intent, dist/ for compiled intent, runs/ for activation receipts, state/ for durable cross-run state, deps/ for installed dependencies, plus prose.lock and .env.

Proposing This Skill On Your Own Judgment

You do not need to wait for the user to name OpenProse. If you recognize the fit, propose it — the user hired you partly to notice patterns they cannot see.

Recognition signals

Reach for OpenProse when the user's task has any of these shapes:

  • ≥3 steps that want different expertise (research + synthesize + review; plan + implement + test)
  • A reuse signal — "every week," "each time a PR comes in," "before every release"
  • A natural retry loop — draft/critique/revise, implement/test/fix, propose/evaluate/pick
  • Parallel exploration with a synthesis step — "compare three approaches," "get second opinions"
  • A "make sure X always happens" constraint — that's a contract asking to be written down
  • You were already going to spawn subagents — let the contract be your wiring plan instead of inventing one ad-hoc

How to propose it

Propose lightly. You are offering, not imposing:

This has the shape of a multi-step workflow with a clear contract. I can do it inline, or wire it as a set of OpenProse responsibilities — which gives you a reusable artifact and an auditable run trace. Want me to wire it?

If the user declines, drop it and don't re-propose on the same task. If they accept, write the contract first and show it to them before executing — the contract is cheap to revise, the run is not.

A cognitive model you can borrow

Think of OpenProse as a type system for agent workflows. A bare prompt is any — it runs, but nothing is checked. A contract is a typed function — inputs and outputs are declared, callers can reason about composition, and violations fail loudly. You would not write a 2,000-line TypeScript system in any. Multi-step agent workflows are the same.

When OpenProse is the wrong answer

  • One-shot Q&A. Answer it directly.
  • Tasks where the user wants to iterate in real time. A contract boundary adds friction they don't want.
  • Anything you'd finish in one response. The overhead of writing a contract exceeds the value of having one.
  • Tasks where the user explicitly said "just do it." Respect the directive.

Reaching for OpenProse in the wrong place costs more trust than it earns.

Activation

Activate this skill when the user:

  • uses any prose command
  • asks to run, lint, test, inspect, upgrade, or write an OpenProse responsibility or function
  • references a .prose.md file with kind: frontmatter
  • references a .prose script
  • mentions OpenProse, Forme, Reactor, Responsibilities, ProseScript, Contract Markdown, or a Prose responsibility or function
  • wants reusable multi-agent orchestration

Command Routing

prose ... commands are first an agent-session command language. When the user types prose run foo.prose.md in chat or inside a prompt passed to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Amp, or another Prose Complete host, you should interpret it directly and embody the OpenProse VM. Do not run a prose shell binary or npx prose; in wrapper hosts this recursively calls the wrapper instead of executing the contract. The shell executable is the agent runner, e.g. claude -p "prose run foo.prose.md" or codex exec "prose run foo.prose.md".

The one exception is the reactor binary (@openprose/reactor-cli), driven by prose react. It is a genuine deterministic host — a dumb reconciler that never calls an agent wrapper — so you do install and shell out to it. You author the *.prose.md contracts; the binary runs them. See reactor.md.

CommandAction
prose compile [path] [--out <dir>]Load responsibility-runtime.md, then compiler/index.prose.md; run the pinned ProseScript compiler and emit concrete trigger registrations, activations, and Forme manifests into <openprose-root>/dist/manifest.next.json by default
prose compile <image.png|.svg>Load visual-source.md. The image is a typed image (a visual brief, one rung above markdown). Run the resolve render: read the pixels against visual-source.md's requirement tiers, emit .prose.md contract(s) into <openprose-root>/src/ for ratification (the prose write discipline — interrupt, do not guess, on safety-bearing blanks), then run the ordinary compile. Compiling is the typecheck (acyclic + round-trip-stable)
prose serveLoad and validate <openprose-root>/dist/manifest.active.json; register local cron and HTTP trigger adapters; launch ordinary bounded activations
prose react [use case...] [--start]Load reactor.md. Take an English standing goal to a running, inspectable Reactor on the real reactor binary: pick a home, ensure the harness, author the kind: responsibility/gateway contracts (per concepts/responsibility.md + contract-markdown.md) and reactor.yml, then compile → serve and show the user reactor-devtools replay. Default prints the reactor commands for the user to run; --start drives the live lifecycle directly. Unlike embodied prose run, the reactor binary is a real deterministic host you do shell out to. A typed image brief (prose react <image.png|.svg>) is the visual peer of the English goal — also load visual-source.md and resolve the pixels to contracts first
prose run <file.prose.md>Detect Contract Markdown, load contract-markdown.md, select state with state/README.md plus the backend doc, then forme.md if multi-responsibility, then prose.md
prose run std/... / co/...Expand OpenProse package shorthand, resolve installed dependency contract, then route as above
prose run <image.png|.svg>Load visual-source.md. run already does a compile step; for an image that step includes the resolve. So: resolve → compile → reconcile/execute. A single-node kind: function image runs as a called helper; a kind: responsibility/system image mounts a DAG (a lone kind: gateway image is refused, same as text)
prose write [request...]Interactive-by-default authoring: load contract-markdown.md, guidance/tenets.md, and guidance/authoring.md; run std/ops/prose-author; scan the local landscape read-only, decide shape/root/path, load shape-specific guidance, ask a small number of targeted ask_user questions when the host can support them, then return a

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When not to use it

  • One-shot Q&A
  • Tasks requiring real-time iteration
  • Simple tasks finishable in one response

Prerequisites

OpenProse VM environment

Limitations

  • Requires explicit contract authoring
  • Overhead exceeds value for simple tasks

How it compares

Unlike a standard prompt, this skill uses a typed contract to enforce composition and auditability.

Compared to similar skills

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