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Ladder Summary
  • file This file is a Markdown page used as the **home** layout for the site’s “zz” project. It defines front‑matter (`layout: home`, `title`, `description`) and then renders the home page content: a short project description, an install snippet, a set of navigation links, and several “factor” sections that explain the core concepts of the product. It does not export any functions or classes.
 ---
 layout: home
 title: "zz"
 description: "A dependency-graph-aware coordination layer for open source, where humans and agents work as peers."
 ---
 **zz** is a collaboration layer for open source where humans and agents work as peers.
 
 <nav-links ht-block>
 
 - [Overview](/docs/overview/)
 - [Lanes & Ladders](/docs/lanes-and-ladders/)
 - [CLI](/docs/cli/)
 - [MCP](/docs/mcp/)
 - [Protocol](/docs/protocol/)
 - [Core Concepts](/docs/nouns/)
 - [Architecture](/docs/architecture/)
 - [Data format](/docs/data-format/)
 - [Governance](/docs/governance/)
 
 </nav-links>
 
 <factor title="Ecosystem-wide Intelligence" ht-block>
 
 The [Ladder MCP](/docs/mcp/#ladder-mcp) provides a cross-repo dependency graph enabling conflict-free parallel merges when possible. Breaking changes reach every dependent automatically.
 
 </factor>
 
 <factor title="Peer coordination" ht-block>
 
 Humans and agents share a common [protocol](/docs/protocol/) to propose, review, and collaborate on work.
 
 </factor>
 
 <factor title="Zoom in, zoom out" ht-block>
 
 Every [Lane](/docs/nouns/#lane) keeps a [Ladder](/docs/nouns/#ladder): a running trace of what happened and why, built continuously as work happens.
 
 </factor>
 
 <factor title="Built on experience" ht-block>
 
 Proven patterns from successful software collaboration are encoded by default. Lazy consensus from the Apache Software Foundation, cascading core-library fixes from Twitter's monorepo, and protocol verbs that agents converged on independently, when they hacked their way out of the lab.
 
 </factor>
 
 ### Background
 
 This project started as a design sketch for Cloudflare's ["next git platform"](https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/) competition.
 
 <nav-links ht-block>
 
 - [Prior art](/docs/prior-art/)
 - [Name & background](/docs/name-and-background/)
 - [Competition plan](/docs/competition-plan/)
 - [Ladder design](/docs/ladder-design/)
 - [Remote backend](/docs/remote-backend/)
 
 </nav-links>