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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Maintained by William Guss and community contributors.

W2 What

A language-model programming library that treats prompts as versioned functions.

W3 Where

A Python library with versioning and visualization.

W4 When

Reach for it when treating prompts as first-class, versioned code.

W5 Why

Prompt engineering as first-class functions with visualization.

W6 With

Python, LLM providers, and a local store.

W7 Watch

Individual-maintained; MIT-licensed library only, early-stage. Runs locally.

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