Procedures are rarely written down in a way that anyone can use. Knowledge held only by a handful of people. Design documents never turned into documentation. Wiki pages that are out of date. Ad-hoc shell scripts written and forgotten. Policy documents forever ignored.

Technique is a language for writing practices down in a form precise enough for a machine to follow yet plain enough for a human to understand and work through unassisted.

A procedure written in Technique can serve as reference documentation, as a plan someone carries out, or as a tool that drives automation — user stories, test suites, monitoring checks, maintenance tasks, even quick scripts.

© 2004-2026 Athae Eredh Siniath, and Others. Technique is open source and MIT licensed.