Ordova is the operating system a software studio runs its AI workforce on. A methodology the work is held to, an enforcement layer that holds it there, and a permanent record of what it did. Built and run in production at Async Digital.
Read how it works Start with the charter
Let nothing be destroyed that cannot be recovered. Let nothing be claimed that was not verified. Let the record outlive the session, and the law outlive the day’s convenience. What drifts from the truth is corrected at its source, never papered over.
Ordova is a small system of parts, each with a distinct role and a distinct change cadence. Each keeps its own face, co-located with the source it derives from.
The principles and invariants the work is held to. Hand-authored, slow-changing, and the one part a fresh agent genuinely needs to read.
The live config an agent runs under: the settings, the hooks, the install seam. It puts the charter into practice.
The persistent store. Handoffs, projects, captured concepts, and the record each session must leave behind.
The whole system explained end to end: why the working context an agent needs is capital worth keeping, how a session runs from one wrap-up to the next, how drift is held shut, and every skill the agent reaches for.
Two parts have no door
Private Creed, the operator overlay. The one operator-specific layer. It installs second and wins filename collisions, so a generic install stays fully supported without it.
Shelved Interface, the MCP surface. An API over the record, shelved once archive access became filesystem-direct through the agent's own tools.