Make your documents easy for people and AI to understand.
ODS maps connections across your files so AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot & Antigravity) read only what they need — giving you instant answers while saving up to 94% in AI costs.
Paste this single prompt directly into your AI assistant chat window:
Give AI Less. Let It Understand More.
ODS finds the information that matters before AI starts processing — reducing noise, cost, and unnecessary context.
Estimate Your Team's AI & Cost Savings
Enter your team size and usage to see how much money and tokens you save on AI tools with ODS.
Built for Everyone: Writers, Managers, and Developers
ODS is not just for programmers. Anyone who writes documents, guides, guidelines, or research can use ODS without touching a terminal.
Product & Business Managers
Link PRDs, goals, and checklists directly to project plans.
Legal, HR & Compliance
Enforce policy rules and keep sensitive data private.
Researchers & Academics
Map and link citations across research notes and papers.
Engineering & DevOps
Connect technical specs and guides directly to source code.
Install ODS in Seconds
Install the ODS skill via gh skill install open-doc-spec/ods-skills, then prompt your AI assistant: "Install ods on this machine and start watching ./docs"
$ ods install
✓ Installing ODS...
✓ Reading list enabled
✓ Connected to your AI assistant
✓ Ready to go!
> Ask your AI anything.One Command Setup
No extensions or accounts needed
100% Local & Private
Zero telemetry or cloud dependencies
94% Cost Savings
Fast answers with minimum tokens
How ODS Works in 3 Simple Steps
A clean, deterministic workflow from repo initialization to live link maintenance.
Prepare Workspace
Run ods init . to create a root ods.toml workspace marker and make your repo ODS-compliant.
$ ods init .Lint & Validate Graph
Run ods lint . to instantly validate your document graph, cross-file references, and frontmatter profiles.
$ ods lint .Background Auto-Sync
Run ods start . to launch the background watch service and automatically repair links whenever files move.
$ ods start .Vector Search vs ODS Smart Mapping
Why engineering and AI teams replace heavy vector indexing pipelines with deterministic ODS document graphs.
CAPABILITY / METRICEvaluation Criteria | Traditional ApproachVector Search (RAG) | RECOMMENDED STANDARDODS Document Map |
|---|---|---|
How AI Reads Pages | Scrambled snippets | Full pages in exact orderDeterministic Context |
Text Sent to AI | 80,000+ words | 4,100 wordsSave ~94% space |
Search Speed | Slow (~1.5s) | Instant< 5 milliseconds |
Maintenance Cost | $500+ / month | $0 / FreeZero Cloud Infra |
Moving or Renaming Files | Search index breaks | Links auto-repairedSelf-Healing |
Freedom & Portability | High vendor lock-in | Zero vendor lock-in100% Plain Text |
ODS Document Templates
Pre-structured profiles to keep documents clean and organized.
Architecture docs
Standardize architecture, APIs, and schemas.
Runbooks & Guides
Clear step-by-step setup and operations.
Product PRDs
Connect user goals to feature plans.
Decision Records
Track design context, decisions, and impact.
Pricing & Tier Options
Open Document Spec core is 100% free and open-source forever under the Apache 2.0 license.
100% open-source local document specification & CLI graph toolchain.
- Full ODS Spec & Schema Validation
- Local CLI (
ods context,ods lint) - Cursor, Antigravity & Copilot Adapters
- Apache 2.0 License & Zero Telemetry
Managed real-time sync, cloud indexing, and web doc hosting for teams.
- Multi-user real-time graph sync
- Automated graph drift & health alerts
- Vector index & hybrid search pipeline
- Zero-config web docs preview