Get Involved

The Foundation exists to support a community of contributors. There are several ways to participate, depending on what you want to do.

For developers

The Honest framework specification is complete. The Python reference implementation is complete. Implementations in other languages are where the next wave of work happens.

• Build a new language implementation. Implementations in JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Go, and C# are in progress. If you work in one of those languages and want to contribute, the conformance suite tells you exactly what your implementation needs to satisfy. New languages are welcome too.
• Improve the Python reference implementation. Bug reports, performance improvements, and additional examples all help.
• Write tooling, examples, and documentation. Working programs that show Honest in action across application domains (financial, healthcare, civic, security) are some of the most useful contributions you can make.
• Read the spec and tell us what is unclear. The specification is at honestframework.software. If something is hard to follow, that is a bug.

For researchers

MÉTRON is the open no-code platform for cross-language AI experiments. It is currently in alpha development; full release is targeted for the EMNLP 2026 system demonstrations track.

• Use MÉTRON for your own research. When alpha access is ready, you can run controlled cross-language experiments without needing ML expertise or expensive hardware. Subscribe to be notified.
• Contribute a benchmark for your native language. The community-contribution channel gives native speakers free compute in exchange for building grammar test sets for their own language. Each contributed benchmark expands what MÉTRON can ask, in the contributor's language.
• Apply the method in your discipline. Philosophers of language, theologians, computational linguists, cognitive scientists, and cross-tradition scholars are the audiences MÉTRON is built for. Case studies and published applications are welcomed.

For governance contributors

The Foundation runs on the public governance documents. Their evolution is part of the work.

• Read the documents. The Governance page lists everything: Charter, Constitution, Code of Conduct, Mission, Trademark Moratorium, Anti-Capture Amendments.
• Propose amendments. Each document defines its own amendment procedure. Some sections are immutable and cannot be changed by any procedure; the rest are open to community proposals through the rules defined inside each document.
• Join a working group. Working groups will form for specific areas (certification curriculum, language implementations, conformance testing). When groups open for membership, applications happen through the Foundation.

For organizations

• Adopt the Honest framework. The framework is Apache-2.0-licensed. The Python reference implementation is in active development; additional language implementations are planned. Adopting Honest gives you a structural path to correctness in code you write going forward.
• Audit existing code with the Slop Audit. The Slop Audit is the Foundation's independent measurement instrument for software quality, mapped to SOC 2, NIST 800-53, OSFI B-13, OWASP ASVS, and ISO/IEC 25010 thresholds. It applies to any codebase regardless of architecture or language, including codebases that will not adopt the Honest Framework. Apache-2.0-licensed.
• Become a Certified Honest Practitioner. The certification curriculum is being developed. Organizations whose teams complete the curriculum can publicly use the Certified Honest Practitioner mark, licensed by the Foundation.
• Partner or sponsor. Institutions interested in supporting the Foundation's work, hosting working groups, or contributing to the certification program can contact the Foundation directly.

Stay in the loop

• GitHub: github.com/openhonest (organization forthcoming)
• Honest framework documentation: honestframework.software
• Substack: emusings.substack.com — longer-form writing on the questions the project addresses
• Email: contact@openhonest.org

Reporting Code of Conduct violations

If you have witnessed or experienced a violation of the Code of Conduct, follow the reporting procedure defined in the Code itself. The Foundation is the appeals body of record. All enforcement actions are recorded in the public Registry.