project-bourne AGENTS.md

project-bourne AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from KozakHou/project-bourne. It costs 3,694 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of agent instructions for Project Bourne, a system that records how scientific and engineering experiments were produced so results can be traced and reproduced.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding agents working on experiment provenance, reproducibility, traceability, and durable records across many programming languages and scientific tools.
Why use it?
It preserves an experiment's history beyond the code or tools used, making it easier to understand and repeat past results.

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Install

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AGENTS.md · 907 lines

How it starts

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Project Bourne — Agent Instructions

Project Identity

Project: Project Bourne Python distribution: bourneprov Python package: bourneprov CLI: bourne

Tagline:

Every experiment has a history.

Short description:

Universal experiment provenance and reproducibility for science and engineering.

Project Bourne is a general-purpose scientific experiment provenance, reproducibility, traceability, and durable record-keeping system.

Its purpose is to preserve how scientific and engineering results came to exist.

The core abstraction is the experiment, not the programming language, framework, solver, or AI agent.


Core Product Principle

Universal by default, domain-aware when available.

Bourne core must work without knowing whether an experiment uses:

  • Python
  • JAX
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Julia
  • MATLAB
  • R
  • C
  • C++
  • CUDA
  • Fortran
  • MPI
  • COMSOL
  • OpenFOAM
  • LAMMPS
  • GROMACS
  • proprietary scientific software
  • shell scripts
  • arbitrary executables

Framework- and domain-specific knowledge belongs in optional collectors, adapters, integrations, or later verification modules.


Mental Model

Git answers:

How did this code come to exist?

Bourne answers:

How did this scientific result come to exist?

A result may depend on:

  • source code
  • Git state
  • data
  • configuration
  • parameters
  • environment
  • dependencies
  • compiler/runtime
  • hardware
  • operating system
  • execution command
  • random state
  • upstream experiments
  • generated artefacts
  • human actions
  • agent actions

Bourne exists to preserve that history.


Non-Negotiable Rules

  1. Never make Bourne core dependent on a specific ML framework.

  2. Arbitrary commands and executables are first-class experiments.

  3. Basic provenance capture must not require users to modify their scientific source code.

  4. A failed experiment is still an experiment and must be recorded.

  5. Provenance correctness takes priority over UI polish.

  6. Bourne must remain useful without AI agents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 907 lines

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project-bourne AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository KozakHou/project-bourne (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3,694 tokens to every session, about $0.0185 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.