🌋 What OriGen really is¶
If you’ve ever built, maintained, or debugged modern workflows, this page is written for you.
OriGen is not a publishing tool, a CI helper, a workflow wrapper, or a clever YAML transpiler.
OriGen is a deterministic workflow compiler — the first system that treats workflows the same way programming languages treat code: explicit, immutable, analyzable, translatable, and reproducible.
Everything else in the docs is just the surface expression of that.
🧱 What this architecture makes unavoidable¶
- Explicit, pinned toolchains (Navigators) — nothing can drift
- Immutable resources (Backpacks) — execution cannot smuggle sta…
🌋 What OriGen really is¶
If you’ve ever built, maintained, or debugged modern workflows, this page is written for you.
OriGen is not a publishing tool, a CI helper, a workflow wrapper, or a clever YAML transpiler.
OriGen is a deterministic workflow compiler — the first system that treats workflows the same way programming languages treat code: explicit, immutable, analyzable, translatable, and reproducible.
Everything else in the docs is just the surface expression of that.
🧱 What this architecture makes unavoidable¶
- Explicit, pinned toolchains (Navigators) — nothing can drift
- Immutable resources (Backpacks) — execution cannot smuggle state
- Pure planning — zero execution paths inside the Compass
- A backend-neutral Route (IR) — frozen, complete, portable
- Guides translate, never execute — execution occurs outside the trust boundary
💡 The unvarnished claim between the lines¶
OriGen quietly solves the unsolved problem in modern computing:
You cannot reason about a workflow until you can describe it fully, deterministically, and independent of runtime.
Everyone else starts from execution. OriGen starts from intent.
This is not “another DevOps tool.” It is the missing substrate between Git and execution systems.
And that is why the following fall out of the model automatically:
✓ Cheap zero-trust¶
Because there’s nothing left to verify
✓ Automatic Digital Provenance¶
Because determinism makes provenance reconstructable from Git alone
✓ Downsweep (org-wide reverse dependency analysis)¶
Because all toolchains and resources are content-addressed
✓ Cross-domain applicability¶
Because the model defines workflow grammar, not workflow semantics
🧭 The thing we are actually building¶
OriGen is the first system that treats workflows as compilable artifacts.
In other words:
OriGen is LLVM for workflows.
Maps = source Compass = compiler Route = IR Guides = backend code generators Backpacks/Navigators = linked libraries Backends = runtimes
Nobody else has ever drawn the boundary here.
That’s why it feels simultaneously obvious and revolutionary.
Project Status¶
Early stage, but conceptually solid.
Upfront clarity, downstream simplicity is OriGen’s official motto. We front-load the architecture intentionally so the implementation can proceed without churn.