Ouroboric

Ouroboric (ouroboric.dev) builds open factories that improve themselves: for software, companies, and in time research and art. This repository is the company umbrella. Start with the charter.

The map

The names come from Norse myth; the naming and mythology record tells the story behind each one, and its long-term map shows what comes after v0.

Contents

Folder	What's there
1-company/	charter, roadmap, legal, readiness
4-ways-of-working/	the standards every Ouroboric product follows: spec-driven development, docs, writing styles, diagrams
5-research/	company-level research
6-journal/	the journey: challenges, solutions, results
7-branding/	the Ouroboric story, identity, voice, prompts

Repositories in the ouroboric-dev organisation:

Repository	Visibility	Role
.github	public	organisation profile and defaults (health files, issue forms, PR template); every change is organisation-wide
ouroboric	public	this company umbrella
yggdrasil	public	the product: the agentic factory
asgard	public	the Asgard realm; a product umbrella until it becomes a leaf of yggdrasil after Yggdrasil v0

Each operator also keeps a private instance umbrella (L0), outside this repository, with pinned factory versions, their own projects, hidden benchmarks and private notes. It never lives here.

Products, as submodules under products/ (clone with --recurse-submodules):

Product	What it is
Yggdrasil	the agentic factory
Asgard	Yggdrasil's kickstart realm; moves under yggdrasil after Yggdrasil v0

Contributing

Run uvx pre-commit install once after cloning, so gitleaks checks each commit for secrets.

Licence

• Documentation (this repository's main content): CC BY 4.0.
• Scripts (scripts/): AGPL-3.0.
• Names and logos are not licensed: see TRADEMARKS.md.
• The products use AGPL-3.0 for factory code and MIT for anything copied into what operators build. What you build with Ouroboric factories is yours.