The synthesis movement · the public door
The synthesis work system gives human-AI work a durable home: shared methods, project memory, safeguards, coordination, and evidence you can inspect. It is open, vendor-neutral, and designed to keep working when you change tools.
01 / the rule
One door must account for every layer. A partial setup is legitimate when it is deliberate. A silent gap is not. Each layer should read as installed, declined, or missing, and a check that cannot run must never look like a pass.
02 / the system
The plugin is the public core. The working system includes every layer below. This map shows what the current bootstrap reaches and where the one-door work is still incomplete.
Portable methods for coding, writing, project management, governance, and operations.
Verified time, active project state, and recovery at the beginning of a session.
Fail-closed checks for commits, messages, coordination, publishing, and task completion.
A thin instruction core that carries identity, invariants, routing, and enforcement across clients.
Durable machinery for receipts, safeguards, daily operations, and repository health.
Claims, handoffs, and shared project state when several agents work at once.
Checks that distinguish a working system from a system that merely has files installed.
Your voice, preferences, disclosure boundaries, and agent identities in files you own.
Personal and shared knowledge bases, plus organization configuration without installer forks.
Update notices, safe convergence, and receipts that show every installed machine is current.
03 / start
The current bootstrap installs the native public plugin into supported local clients, activates verified session context, and runs its onboarding doctor. It can also scaffold a personal project workspace. It does not yet claim to produce every layer in the system map.
Path A
Give this page to a capable local coding agent. Ask it to inspect the public bootstrap, install the synthesis core, run the doctor, and report anything it could not verify.
Installation should be the task's last action before the client restarts.
Path B
Close active agent sessions, then run the bootstrap on a Mac with command-line tools installed.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/main/onboard.sh | shRead the script before running it. Re-running converges or repairs the public core without overwriting files you changed.
04 / where this leads
Native agent memory helps inside one product. Synthesis keeps the work itself in durable, versioned records that different tools and people can read. The harness becomes an adapter. Your project remains yours.