The greenline guide

Describe the work to your coding agent. greenline gives it engineering methods and durable records to use across sessions. You keep control of scope and consequential choices.

greenline works with Codex and Claude Code, on your machine, with no account, no key and no service. Its skills, its managed instructions and your work records are the whole product, and every part of it is free and open source. Your decisions and work evidence remain in the repository.

garden, a separate product of maintained engineering knowledge, is reached only through an optional connector the repository's owner enables. A fresh install has it off.

Where to start#

1. Quickstart: install and ask for your first change.
2. The pipeline: how larger work moves from intent to evidence.
3. Recipes: ordinary fixes, research, preferences, and maintenance.
4. The skills: the methods, how the agent chooses them, and their sources.
5. The garden connector: what enabling it changes, and what a receipt records.
6. Doctor reference: diagnostics and recovery.
7. The inspector: read and edit repository choices locally.