Apps are text. AI is the runtime. Open source is what the format does automatically: there's nothing else to a "proprietary" app once it's plain English. No vendor, no installer, no walled garden. AECO is the wedge; the substrate is universal.
The five structural truths AWARE is built on: the decalog.
winget install aware-aeco # Windows
brew install aware-aeco # Mac
curl -fsSL https://aware-aeco.dev/install | sh # Linux / WSL
claude-code # or codex, or opencode
> Watch this Tekla model. When a welded assembly appears,
> upload its drawing to my Trimble Connect fab folder.
# → composed [Tekla Watcher] → [Welded Filter] → [TC Uploader]
# → wrote ~/.aware/apps/welded-to-tc.floOne sentence in your terminal. One plain-text file. One command to run.
- aware — the substrate (decalog, manifesto, specs, reference agents)
- decalog — the five constraints
- manifesto — what it is, why now, how it ships
- agent spec — how to write an agent
- app spec — how to write an app
If you can write a paragraph, you can contribute. Three ways in CONTRIBUTING.md — all markdown PRs, no build system to learn.
Apache 2.0 forever.
Created and maintained by Pawel Lisowski (BIMstudio). Pre-v0 · manifesto and specs locked · reference agents and CLI in progress.