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Show Me The Money

iamzifei/show-me-the-money

Claude Code skill suite that builds and runs a 24/7 automated business from scratch — from idea discovery to revenue generation.

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Installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and the other agents it finds on your machine.

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25 skills

money-adsPaid advertising automation for Google Ads, Meta Ads, and other ad platforms. Creates campaigns, optimizes budgets, manages keywords, writes ad copy, and tracks ROAS. Leverages third-party ad management skills when available. Use when the user needs ad campaigns, PPC, SEM, paid traffic, or says 'runskills/money-adsmoney-contentAutomated content creation pipeline for business growth. Creates blog posts, landing pages, email sequences, social media content, and video scripts with a supply-demand topic gate, 5-dimensional quality diagnosis, one-core resonance check, per-sentence information density scoring, 12-signal authentskills/money-contentmoney-diagnoseDeep business diagnosis for when things aren't working. Uses Socratic questioning, first-principles reasoning, and constraint analysis to find WHY a business is stuck — not just prescribe solutions. Use when the user says 'my business isn't working', 'I'm stuck', 'what's wrong', 'diagnose my businesskills/money-diagnosemoney-discoverDiscover profitable business ideas from scratch. Analyzes market gaps, trending niches, user skills, and competitive landscapes with a competitive intelligence protocol including 4-filter benchmark stress test and Blue Ocean differentiation grid. Use when the user has no idea what to build, wants toskills/money-discovermoney-financeFinancial tracking, revenue analytics, expense management, and pricing optimization. Integrates with Stripe for revenue data, tracks unit economics, and generates financial reports. Use when the user needs revenue tracking, financial reports, pricing optimization, expense management, or says 'revenuskills/money-financemoney-learnManage project learnings — small, atomic, validated patterns that the agent should remember across all skills and sessions. Different from /money-save (which captures full session state); learnings are individual insights that get auto-loaded into every other money-* skill's context. Use when the usskills/money-learnmoney-ops24/7 autonomous business operations orchestrator with business health scoring, canary monitoring, and safety guardrails. Schedules and runs all business functions automatically — content publishing, social media posting, outreach sequences, ad monitoring, financial reporting, health checks, and postskills/money-opsmoney-outreachAutomated outreach and sales pipeline — cold email sequences, partnership outreach, lead generation, and prospect management. Use when the user needs cold email campaigns, sales sequences, lead generation, partnership outreach, B2B sales, or says 'cold email', 'outreach', 'lead gen', 'find prospectsskills/money-outreachmoney-panelRun all four review skills (investor, customer, operator, skeptic) on a business plan in sequence, then auto-decide where verdicts agree and surface only disagreements + taste decisions to the user. One command = full review gauntlet, intelligently filtered. Use when a plan is ready to be stress-tesskills/money-panelmoney-productBuild the actual product — from landing page to deployed MVP with payment integration, QA testing, and post-deploy canary monitoring. Handles code generation, deployment, database setup, authentication, Stripe/payment integration, systematic QA protocol, and production health scoring. Use when the uskills/money-productmoney-qualityCode and product quality gates for shipping with confidence. Runs code review, QA testing, performance checks, and security audits. Use when the user says 'review my code', 'is this ready to ship', 'check quality', 'run QA', 'test this', 'security check', 'pre-launch review', or wants a quality asseskills/money-qualitymoney-reportGenerate a deliverable markdown report by merging all /money-save snapshots for a project. Produces a shareable, dated document at ~/.smtm/reports/{project}/. Useful for sharing progress with co-founders, advisors, investors, or for personal review weeks/months later. Use when the user wants to packskills/money-reportmoney-restoreRestore a prior business-state snapshot saved by /money-save, so you can continue from exactly where the last session left off. Loads the most recent snapshot for the current project (auto-detected from the working directory), or a specific one by index. Use when starting a new Claude Code conversatskills/money-restoremoney-retroWeekly business retrospective. Reads all snapshots, learnings, skill-usage telemetry, and (if provided) revenue data from the past week. Outputs: what got decided, what shipped, what's stalled, skill activity, suggested next focus. Surfaces unused skills as activation prompts. Use at end of week or skills/money-retromoney-review-customerReview a business plan from the perspective of the named target customer. Asks: would they actually pay this price for this solution today? Outputs a verdict with one of four modes — PAY NOW / PAY WITH FRICTION / WOULDN'T PAY / WRONG ICP. Use when the user has a defined ICP and pricing and wants to skills/money-review-customermoney-review-investorReview a business plan or product strategy through the eyes of a smart-money seed/Series-A investor. Asks the brutal questions: Is this fundable? What's the moat? What's the exit story? Outputs a verdict with one of four modes — SEED VIABLE / LATER ROUND ONLY / BOOTSTRAP-ONLY / UNFUNDABLE. Use when skills/money-review-investormoney-review-operatorReview a business plan from the perspective of the solo founder who has to actually execute it. Asks the brutal operational questions: Can I build this with my time budget? Can I keep it running? Will my cashflow survive? Outputs a verdict — SHIPPABLE NOW / SHIPPABLE WITH DESCOPE / NEEDS HIRE / WRONskills/money-review-operatormoney-review-skepticReview a business plan from the perspective of a hostile devil's advocate. Asks: what kills this in month 6? What's everyone politely not mentioning? Outputs a verdict — EXISTENTIAL RISK / SOLVABLE RISKS / LOW-RISK / WRONG QUESTION. Use after the investor/customer/operator reviews are done, as the fskills/money-review-skepticmoney-saveSave the current business state to disk so future Claude Code sessions can pick up where you left off. Captures confirmed conclusions, ruled-out directions, open hypotheses, and the next recommended skill. Use when the user has just reached a conclusion in /money-discover, /money-strategy, /money-diskills/money-savemoney-seoSEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) for organic traffic and AI search visibility. Covers technical SEO, content SEO, keyword strategy, schema markup, and optimization for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Use when the user needs SEO audit, keyword research, GEO optimization, skills/money-seomoney-skillifyCodify a successful workflow from the current conversation into a permanent project-local skill. After you discover (e.g.) a cold-email sequence that converts, an ad-creative format that beats baseline, or a content-pipeline cadence that compounds — /money-skillify writes it as a SKILL.md under the skills/money-skillifymoney-socialSocial media management and community building automation. Creates content calendars, drafts posts, manages engagement, and builds audience across X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Product Hunt, and other platforms. Use when the user needs social media strategy, content scheduling, community building, orskills/money-socialmoney-strategyCreate comprehensive business strategy with premise deconstruction, business model stress test, pricing, go-to-market plan, and competitive positioning. Runs a 4-layer premise audit before strategy, then generates a full market research report with SWOT, 4P, 10-point business model validation, and cskills/money-strategymoney-upgradeAuto-update the show-me-the-money skill suite to the latest version. One command checks npm for a new version, downloads it, replaces the installed skills, and shows what changed. Use when the user wants to update skills, check for new versions, or says 'upgrade money', 'update skills', 'latest versskills/money-upgrademoneyMain entry point for the Show Me The Money business automation suite. Dual mode: pre-task routing (which skill fits your problem) + post-task navigation (a skill just finished — what's next). Use when the user wants to start a business, automate operations, generate revenue, find product ideas, set skills/money

Documentation

README

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Show Me The Money — autonomous business OS for solo founders

💰 Show Me The Money · 来财

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npm version Latest release License: CC BY-NC 4.0 Commercial / OEM license

Current version: v2.8.0 · What's new → · Full changelog →

English | 中文

AI agent skills that build and run your business autonomously — from idea to revenue, 24/7.

One command. 25 agent skills. Zero to profitable business.

Author · X / @jamesai · 小红书 / 在悉尼和稀泥

Free for personal use, internal tooling, learning and research. Shipping it inside something you sell, redistributing it, or dropping the credit needs a commercial / OEM license — annual or perpetual, see COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md or just email james@orris.ai.


🎯 Why this exists — the receipts

I'm a solo founder running 6 SaaS products in parallel — APIs, developer tools, and consumer apps shipped over the last 32 months.

Across those products, the working numbers right now:

💰  $1M+         lifetime revenue across all products
💳  6,500+       paying transactions processed
👥  10,000+      paying customers served
🚢  6            production SaaS products shipped
⏱   32 months   from first $1 to today
🧑   1 person    no team, no employees, just AI agents

I built none of this with a marketing team, a sales department, or a content agency. Just me, a laptop, and a Claude Code window open most of the day.

The 25 skills in this repo are the exact operating system I run my businesses on. Not a course, not a framework — the working code I use myself. Every skill in here has been used to ship something real that's now collecting payments on Stripe.

This is not a hypothetical playbook. It's what's been running my company.

If you're a solo founder, an indie hacker, or a technical founder who wants to ship like a team of twenty — this is the closest thing to a copy-paste of my workflow you can get.


Show Me The Money is an open-source skill suite for Claude Code and compatible AI coding agents. It turns your AI assistant into a full-stack business operating system — discovering opportunities, validating demand, building products, running marketing, managing ads, operating everything autonomously, and remembering what you decided across every session.

Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and other agents that support the skill system.


✨ What's New in v2.8.0

The "content craft" release — /money-content and /money-social absorb a battle-tested short-video content methodology, generalized for every format:

  • Topic Gate. Every topic passes a supply-demand test before a word is written: whose pain, who else covers it, and "the top 5 results already explain this — better how?" (only three valid edges: first-hand data, contrarian-but-correct, or plain-words translation). ~80% of performance is locked at topic selection.
  • Information Density Scoring. Every sentence scored against calibrated anchors (80+ = a conclusion you can't hear anywhere else; <40 = filler), with pass thresholds per format and a fix priority: cut filler, then expand the buried high-scorer.
  • One-Core Resonance Check. A piece that says six things says nothing — find the single core, catch the four failure modes (diluted core, unstated mechanism, stance drift, correct-but-flat), and say the thing readers privately believe but won't say publicly.
  • Sell-real red line + hook craft. Never fabricate cases or numbers; hooks are typed (data vs emotional) and judged with the right ruler; 3-6 genuinely different candidates, never 10+.
  • Content MVP testing ladder. Unproven topics get a free text post before an expensive video: bookmarks-vs-your-own-median decides promotion (post → thread → blog → video → paid) or a logged kill.

Looking for older release notes?

  • v2.7.1 — Chinese name 来财 + OECD transparency pass (disclosure, privacy section, evidence-bound value claims)
  • v2.7.0 — Tutorial Mode: zero-input beginner onboarding (/money onboarding / /money 新手)
  • v2.6.0 — dual-mode router: post-task navigation, silent language detection, fast-path routing, proactive handoff
  • v2.5.1 — Value Quantification terminal rendering fix + changelog split
  • v2.5.0 — business-type awareness (7 types) + /money-strategy iterate for post-PMF iteration
  • v2.4.0 — operating modes, narrowest-bet, ship lifecycle, STRIDE, portfolio learnings, auto-update
  • v2.3.1 — atom polish, per-skill callouts, workflow fix
  • v2.3.0 — founder atoms knowledge base
  • v2.2.0 — review panel + cross-session learning
  • v2.1.0 — cross-session state management

Full history → CHANGELOG.md


🚀 Quick Start

Option 1 — Claude Code plugin marketplace

claude plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money
claude plugin install money@show-me-the-money

Option 2 — npx (works for any agent)

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Then open Claude Code (or Codex CLI / Gemini CLI) and type:

/money

That's it. The AI will check for prior session state, onboard you if you're new, and guide you through every step.

Completely new to this? Type:

/money onboarding

(also: /money tutorial, or in Chinese /money 新手 / /money 教程)

A 5-minute guided tutorial that requires zero input — even if you have no idea what to type, it picks a sample business, runs a live mini-demo of the discover → strategy → action flow, produces a real Demo Business Brief, and teaches you the only 3 commands you need to remember. See what it looks like →


🧭 What It Does

📧 Onboarding          Build your profile from public data
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💡 Discover             Scan markets, validate demand, find your wedge
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📊 Strategy             Market research, SWOT, 4P, business model, GTM plan
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🔨 Build                Ship MVP with landing page, payments, and SEO
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📈 Grow                 Content, social, outreach, SEO, ads — all automated
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🤖 Operate              24/7 autonomous ops, monitoring, financial reports
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💾 Persist              /money-save → /money-restore → /money-report
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💵 Revenue

The Full Pipeline

  1. Onboarding — Share your email and socials. The AI auto-researches your background and builds a personalized profile
  2. Discover (/money-discover) — Scans market gaps, validates demand with 6 forcing questions, runs a 5-filter evaluation with competitive intelligence protocol
  3. Strategy (/money-strategy) — Generates a full market research report: premise deconstruction, SWOT, 4P analysis, competitive landscape, business model stress test, go-to-market plan
  4. Product (/money-product) — Builds and deploys your MVP with landing page, auth, payments, SEO/GEO optimization, QA testing, and post-deploy canary monitoring
  5. Quality (/money-quality) — Pre-launch quality gates: code review, QA testing, security audit, performance checks, accessibility
  6. Content (/money-content) — Creates blog posts, email sequences, social content, video scripts — with authenticity audit, headline impact matrix, and content substance scoring
  7. Outreach (/money-outreach) — Cold email sequences, partnership outreach, lead generation with personalization
  8. Social (/money-social) — Social media management across X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Product Hunt with hook-writing frameworks
  9. SEO (/money-seo) — Traditional SEO + GEO (AI search optimization for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)
  10. Ads (/money-ads) — Google Ads, Meta Ads — campaign setup, optimization, ROAS tracking
  11. Ops (/money-ops) — 24/7 autonomous operations with business health scoring, canary monitoring, and safety guardrails
  12. Finance (/money-finance) — Revenue tracking, unit economics, financial reports
  13. Diagnose (/money-diagnose) — Deep business diagnosis when things aren't working: problem deconstruction, assumption audit, execution coaching
  14. Save / Restore / Report (/money-save, /money-restore, /money-report) — Cross-session state management. Checkpoint decisions, resume them in future conversations, and merge multi-month progress into a shareable deliverable

🌟 Why This Exists

Most AI business tools give you generic advice. Show Me The Money gives you executable workflows — every skill produces concrete actions, not just analysis. Every phase ends with "Tomorrow's first action: [specific task]."

Key differentiators:

  • Personalized — Auto-researches your background and tailors all recommendations to YOU
  • Validated frameworks — Battle-tested methodologies: premise deconstruction, 6-question demand validation, 5-filter opportunity scoring, business model stress test, 5-dimensional content diagnosis, 12-signal authenticity audit, headline impact matrix
  • Full-stack — Covers the entire business lifecycle, not just one piece
  • Revenue-first — Every recommendation connects to making money. No fluff
  • Persistent memory — Decisions, ruled-out directions, and hypotheses survive across sessions via /money-save
  • Autonomous — Set up once, runs 24/7 with /money-ops
  • Open source — CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Free for personal use. Customize, extend, contribute

📦 Installation

claude plugin marketplace add iamzifei/show-me-the-money
claude plugin install money@show-me-the-money

To update later:

claude plugin marketplace update show-me-the-money
claude plugin update money@show-me-the-money
/reload-plugins

Via npx (works for any agent — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini)

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

This installs all 25 skills to ~/.claude/skills/ automatically.

To update later, run the same command:

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Via npm (Global)

npm install -g @orrisai/show-me-the-money

Manual

git clone https://github.com/iamzifei/show-me-the-money.git ~/.claude/skills/show-me-the-money
cd ~/.claude/skills/show-me-the-money && node install.js

🛠 Skills Reference

Core (router, state, learning)

Skill Command What It Does
Router /money Onboards you, builds your profile, checks for prior state, routes to the right skill
Save /money-save Checkpoint the current business state to ~/.smtm/sessions/{project}/
Restore /money-restore Resume from a prior saved state — pick up exactly where the last session left off
Report /money-report Merge all saved states into a deliverable markdown report
Learn /money-learn Manage atomic project learnings + portfolio learnings shared across every project
Skillify /money-skillify Codify a successful workflow into a project-local reusable skill
Upgrade /money-upgrade Auto-update: checks npm, downloads, replaces, reads CHANGELOG, prompts to restart

Discover · Strategy · Diagnose · Review

Skill Command What It Does
Discover /money-discover Find and validate profitable business ideas; ends with a tomorrow-shippable narrowest-bet statement
Strategy /money-strategy Term-by-term clarity audit + fuzzy-to-measurable goals + market research + business model stress test
Diagnose /money-diagnose Deep diagnosis when business is stuck — root cause, not symptoms (with Iron Law phase gate)
Panel /money-panel Run all four reviewers (+ optional --add custom personas), find agreement, surface only taste decisions
Investor Review /money-review-investor VC-mode review with funding viability verdict
Customer Review /money-review-customer Named-ICP customer review with willingness-to-pay verdict
Operator Review /money-review-operator Solo-founder execution feasibility + architecture & data-flow stress test
Skeptic Review /money-review-skeptic Devil's advocate red-team review

Build · Quality

Skill Command What It Does
Product /money-product DESIGN.md design contract, build, ship lifecycle (VERSION + CHANGELOG + release notes), deploy, QA, canary
Quality /money-quality Code review, OWASP + STRIDE security, performance, pre-launch gates, tech-triage debugging mode

Grow

Skill Command What It Does
Content /money-content Content pipeline with authenticity audit, headline impact matrix, hook + title pattern library, release-notes mode
Outreach /money-outreach Cold email sequences and partnership outreach
Social /money-social Social media management with hook-writing frameworks
SEO /money-seo SEO + GEO optimization for search engines and AI
Ads /money-ads Google Ads, Meta Ads — setup, optimization, ROAS

Operate · Reflect

Skill Command What It Does
Ops /money-ops 24/7 autonomous operations, health scoring, operating modes (open/staging/production), edit perimeter, panic stop
Finance /money-finance Revenue tracking and financial reports
Retro /money-retro Weekly retrospective: decided / shipped / stalled / unused-skills / focus

💡 Usage Examples

🎓 Complete beginner — guided tutorial (/money onboarding)

Don't know what to type? This mode assumes nothing and asks for nothing:

/money onboarding          (or: /money tutorial, /money 新手, /money 教程)

What the tutorial actually does:

  1. Orientation — the whole system explained in 3 sentences (idea → strategy → product → customers → autopilot; you only ever need to remember /money)
  2. Pick a demo persona — numbered choices with a default, so pressing Enter works:
    • 👩‍💻 a developer with 10 hrs/week · ✍️ a creator with 3k followers · ☕ a local café owner · 🙋 or your real situation
  3. Live mini-demo — compressed tastes of /money-discover → /money-strategy → 7-day action plan, each followed by a one-line "💡 What just happened" explainer
  4. Graduation — one yes/no: "want to run this exact flow on YOUR real situation?"

Example output (persona #1, condensed):

📋 Demo Business Brief — "Screenshot-to-Invoice" micro-SaaS

🎯 Wedge: freelance designers who invoice 5-15 clients/mo and lose
   ~2 hrs each month re-typing line items — they already pay for
   worse workarounds (manual VAs, clunky OCR apps).

💰 Competitors & pricing:
   - Invoice Ninja (free-$10/mo, generic, no screenshot flow)
   - Hectic ($15/mo, freelancer suite, invoice is a side feature)
   - Manual VA on Upwork (~$40/mo equivalent)
   → Suggested price: $12/mo — under the suite, above "toy"

⚠️ Riskiest assumption: designers trust OCR enough to send the
   result to a client without checking every line.

📅 7-day plan: Day 1 (< 1 hr) — post the one-sentence pitch in two
   freelance-designer communities and count reactions. Days 2-7:
   landing page → waitlist → 5 problem interviews → mock demo → decide.

That's the whole learning curve. Three commands:
/money · /money-save · /money-restore

💡 The full tutorial takes ~5 minutes and never asks an open-ended question — every prompt has numbered options and a default.

Start from scratch

/money
→ Share your email and X handle
→ AI researches your background
→ Follow the guided pipeline

Validate a business idea

/money-discover "I'm a developer who can build web apps"

Get a full market research report

/money-strategy "API product that provides AI image generation"

Build and ship a product

/money-product "SaaS tool for email analytics, $29/mo"

Launch your content engine

/money-content "create a launch content plan for my product at example.com"

Automate everything

/money-ops "automate content, social, and SEO for my product at example.com"

Lock in a decision and continue later

/money-discover "..."
→ AI validates the wedge, you confirm pricing
/money-save                       ✅ wedge + pricing checkpointed

   …a week later, new Claude Code session…

/money-restore                    📦 picks up exactly where you left off
/money-strategy                   → builds GTM plan from there

Generate a deliverable for a co-founder

/money-report
→ Merges all your saved checkpoints (over weeks or months) into one
   shareable markdown report at ~/.smtm/reports/{project}/

🌐 Compatibility

Show Me The Money works with any AI coding agent that supports the ~/.claude/skills/ skill system or the Claude Code plugin marketplace:

  • Claude Code (primary, full plugin marketplace support)
  • Codex CLI
  • Gemini CLI
  • Cursor (via skills)
  • Other compatible agents

🏗 How It Works

Built on the Claude Code skill system. Each skill is a SKILL.md file containing step-by-step workflows, business frameworks, and decision trees that the AI follows autonomously.

~/.claude/skills/
├── money/SKILL.md              ← Router + onboarding + prior-state check
├── money-discover/SKILL.md     ← Idea discovery + competitive intelligence
├── money-strategy/SKILL.md     ← Premise deconstruction + market research
├── money-diagnose/SKILL.md     ← Business diagnosis + execution coaching
├── money-product/SKILL.md      ← Product building + QA + canary monitoring
├── money-quality/SKILL.md      ← Code review + security + performance gates
├── money-content/SKILL.md      ← Content pipeline + authenticity audit
├── money-outreach/SKILL.md     ← Sales & outreach
├── money-social/SKILL.md       ← Social media
├── money-seo/SKILL.md          ← SEO & GEO
├── money-ads/SKILL.md          ← Paid advertising
├── money-ops/SKILL.md          ← 24/7 operations + health scoring
├── money-finance/SKILL.md      ← Financial tracking
├── money-save/SKILL.md         ← Cross-session checkpoint writer
├── money-restore/SKILL.md      ← Cross-session state loader
├── money-report/SKILL.md       ← Deliverable report generator
└── money-upgrade/SKILL.md      ← Version management

State files live in ~/.smtm/sessions/{project}/ (per-project, append-only) and ~/.smtm/reports/{project}/ (timestamped, never overwritten).


🔒 Privacy & Disclosure

  • Everything stays local. All state the suite collects or generates — profiles, learnings, session checkpoints, usage telemetry — lives in plain markdown/JSONL under ~/.smtm/ on your machine. Nothing is ever uploaded. The suite's only network call is a silent npm version check (npm view), which fails quietly offline.
  • Erase anytime. Delete ~/.smtm/ and every piece of collected data is gone.
  • Interest disclosure. When a skill needs an AI API key, it may mention ccapi.ai as a convenience option. ccapi.ai is run by this suite's author. It is never required — your own API keys always work.

🗑 Uninstall

npx @orrisai/show-me-the-money uninstall

🤝 Contributing

  1. Fork the repo
  2. Create a feature branch
  3. Edit SKILL.md files in skills/
  4. Test by copying to ~/.claude/skills/ and running in Claude Code
  5. Submit a PR

All contributions welcome — new skills, framework improvements, language support, and bug fixes.


📄 License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0)

  • Personal / learning / research: use freely
  • Public derivative works: attribute source
  • Commercial use / embedding / OEM: requires a separate license — see COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md, or email james@orris.ai

Releases

Recent versions

All releases ↗
  1. v2.5.1
  2. v2.5.0
  3. v2.4.0
  4. v2.3.1
  5. v2.3.0v2.3.0 — Founder Atoms Knowledge Base
  6. v2.2.0v2.2.0 — Cross-Session State, Plan Review Panel, Learnings, Iron Law