title: prov author: adammharris created: 2026-07-06 contents:

• 'Design'
• 'Spec'
• 'Getting Started'
• 'Config Vocab'
• 'Init Adoption'
• 'Next Steps'
• 'Reference Styles'
• 'History Format'
• 'Manifests'
• 'prov proposals'
• 'Author''s notes' config: prov.yaml about: about.md

prov (Plaintext Records, Organized and Verifiable)

A self-describing plaintext workspace: a set of documents whose structure lives in the documents' own embedded metadata (frontmatter), not in the filesystem layout or an app-private sidecar folder.

Layout

• prov/ — the library. Documents, relations, identity, and the workspace seam.
• prov-cli/ — a thin command-line companion (the installed binary is prov).

Status

Works for simple workspaces. Active work is currently taking place incorporating prov into Diaryx.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.