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DESIGN.md from seandavi/scriptorium is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.
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- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- DESIGN.md file
- Repository
- seandavi/scriptorium
- Path
DESIGN.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261020.0e1d1ae, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 17, 2026
- Size
- 20,619 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
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What the file says
# DESIGN The design rationale for `scriptorium`: an agentic operating system for scholarly writing. ## The thesis AI changes the operating model of scholarly writing in the same way it changes the operating model of research institutions more broadly. The question isn't whether AI generates prose — that's table stakes — but how it composes with the rest of the editorial workflow: shared state, inspectable transformations, structured outputs, conservative edits, versioned revisions. Scriptorium is that operating model, shipped as code. The medieval scriptorium had: - A coordinated workspace (the room itself) - Shared conventions (paleographic, structural, citational) - Multiple specialized roles (copyist, illuminator, glossator, corrector) - An inspectable artifact at every stage (the in-progress manuscript) The agentic scriptorium has: - A coordinated workspace (the manuscript repo, with `MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml`) - Shared conventions (the schema; the structured-output discipline; preservation rules) - Multiple specialized capabilities (citation-audit, reviewer-simulation, argumentative-flow, …) …
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How to install
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The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 17, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261020.0e1d1ae latest | 2026-10-20 | 0e1d1ae | 20,619 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.a90c1db | 2026-10-20 | a90c1db | 18,177 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.e0f2277 | 2026-05-20 | e0f2277 | 18,171 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260520.4cf26b3 | 2026-05-20 | 4cf26b3 | 16,370 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260517.5770401 | 2026-05-17 | 5770401 | 14,844 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260517.36eb1b6 | 2026-05-17 | 36eb1b6 | 12,509 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260517.9d1fd7b | 2026-05-17 | 9d1fd7b | 8,585 B | A | view |
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Source
seandavi/scriptorium · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
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