KEEL, an Open Standard for AI Coding Project Docs, Launches keel.to
DominusFL · reddit · 2026-11-12
KEEL, the author's open-source (MIT) standard for keeping AI coding projects consistent, now has a proper home at keel.to after several releases.
The idea: all documentation lives in the repo as plain Markdown — requirements, decisions and their rationale, and a short note for the next session — so it travels with the project across teams, developers, and tools. It targets serious, long-lived, hand-off-heavy projects, not weekend scripts.
What it enforces:
- The AI can propose requirement changes, but only a human accepts them
- Larger changes need a short approved plan; every task ends with what was actually tested
- Code stays readable and commented, each change gets tests, docs update in the same task
- Rules live in a plain AGENTS.md, so it works across Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot
- It can draft docs for legacy projects from their code, flagging guesses for human confirmation
Honest caveat: the full standard is long — the AI reads it once at setup, then only a short rules file each session.
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