# Open Engineer

**An open standard for preserving engineering context.**

Open Engineer does not seek to tell engineers what to think. It seeks to preserve how engineers arrive at understanding.

## What Is Open Engineer?

Open Engineer is a standard. Not a philosophy. Not documentation. Not an AI project. Not a website. Those become implementations. The standard comes first.

## Quick Start

- **[CHARTER.md](CHARTER.md)** — Project charter and purpose
- **[ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md)** — Current phase and development roadmap
- **[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** — How to contribute
- **[spec/](spec/)** — The canonical specification (OE-0000 through OE-0011)
- **[rfc/](rfc/)** — Requests for Comments (RFC-0000 through RFC-0006)
- **[reference/](reference/)** — Vocabulary, patterns, and editorial principles
- **[laws/](laws/)** — Engineering laws and communication principles
- **[examples/](examples/)** — Illustrative examples (weaving, bridges, clockwork, Antikythera)

## Mission

It gave engineering a common language for preserving understanding across people, projects, generations, and intelligent systems — so that every generation could begin a little closer to bedrock than the last.

## Structure

The spec defines. The reference explains. The examples illustrate. The tools implement. No overlap.

## License

See [LICENSE](LICENSE).