Restart Often Protocol (ROP)

• The Restart Often Protocol (ROP) is a method of working with AI Agents.
• Developers have the Commit early, commit often, use git with working branches philosphy.
• ROP applies that philosphy to Agent Workflow.
• Find your ROP sweetspot to make your architecture leaner and stretch your compute budget.
• ROP.md - Restart Often Protocol overview

High ROP Workflow (HROP)

Our implementation of an Opinionated High ROP Workflow.

• HROP.md - High ROP overview
• AGENTS.md - Agents Protocol
• skills/ - Agent skills for HROP

🟠 active-tasks - 2026-05-31 11:40 UTC

• 🟠 ROP-001 - welcome-to-rop (In Progress) Initial setup and docs.
• 🟠 ROP-002 - style-hn (In Progress) Communication standards and HN post.
• 🟡 ROP-003 - diagnostic-reviews (Pending) ROP/HROP critique collection.
• 🟢 ROP-004 - diagnostic-fluff (Finished) Signal-to-noise ratio analysis.
• 🟢 ROP-005 - pointers-cleanup (Done) Cleanup of root pointer files.
• 🟡 ROP-006 - github-auto-publish (Pending) Auto-publish to GitHub Pages.
• 🟠 ROP-007 - welcome-clarity-and-focus (In Progress) Reconcile docs and skills.

Next Steps

• Execute remaining packets in ROP-001 and ROP-002.
• Execute ROP-007 to reconcile core documentation.
• Update all status files to new formatting rules (ROP-009).

(PM Jules)