# danielmiessler/Telos

Telos is an open-sourced framework for creating Deep Context about things that matter to humans.

Repository: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Telos
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/telos
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-01-09T20:40:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 50/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 35, longevity 49
- inputs: {"age_days": 698, "days_push": 236, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1531, forks 223 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:59.330554+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: experimental
- function: documentation, prompt-engineering, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, security, artificial-intelligence, documentation
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: deep-context, context-files, personal-mission, strategic-planning, markdown-framework, ai-context

## Member repositories
- danielmiessler/Telos (main) score 50

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.330554+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:22.330818+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Telos (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:59.330554+00:00, sha c59696b3cf27)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.