danielmiessler/Telos

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Telos is an open-source framework for creating 'Deep Context' about things that matter to humans, providing a structured format (Telos Context Files) for capturing an entity's mission, goals, problems, strategies, and KPIs. It currently ships as a markdown-based template exemplified by a fictional company's information security program context file.

Use cases

• articulate my personal mission and goals in a structured format
• create deep context documents to feed into AI assistants
• document our security program's mission, strategies, and KPIs
• structure organizational purpose, problems, and strategies in one file
• build reusable context files for LLM prompting

When to choose

• you want a lightweight markdown framework for articulating mission, goals, and strategies
• you need structured context files to give LLMs deep background about a person or organization
• you're designing an information security program and want a template covering mission through metrics

When to avoid

• you need working software or tooling rather than a documentation framework
• you expect a mature spec with many maintained templates and integrations
• you need automated context generation rather than hand-written markdown

Facets

framework · maturity experimental

documentation prompt-engineering developer-tools developer-tools security artificial-intelligence documentation cross-platform deep-context context-files personal-mission strategic-planning markdown-framework ai-context

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