---
purpose: VM behavior guidance and canonical authoring advice for OpenProse systems
related:
  - ../SKILL.md
  - ../examples/README.md
  - ../responsibility-runtime.md
  - ../state/README.md
---

# guidance

Guidance documents that shape how authors write OpenProse artifacts and how
the VM interprets and executes systems.

## Contents

- `authoring.md` — canonical guidance for responsibilities, functions, gateways, patterns, tests, the world-model, and security boundaries
- `tenets.md` — architectural tenets behind the OpenProse specs (the two-layer / two-phase architecture)
- `system-prompt.md` — system-prompt text injected when the skill is active