About

Ordnung determines whether a GitHub repository is structurally in order. It does not read your code — it reads what surrounds it: manifests, lockfiles, workflows, .gitignore, README, CODEOWNERS, Dependabot configuration, branch protection, and the layout those live in. It inventories a repository once, resolves the policy that applies, and reports deterministic findings against stable check identifiers. Across many repositories, it keeps shared configuration synchronized from one place — and mutation is always a separate, explicit operation.

Ordnung is built by The Powderworks Agentic Code Consortium, and maintained by Zack. The code is MIT-licensed and lives on GitHub, where releases and the full commit history are public.

The name#

Ordnung is German for order — the household kind. Alles in Ordnung: everything in order, all is well, nothing out of place. Ordnung muss sein: there must be order. The tagline translates the name the way a certain song would — everything in its right place — and that is the state Ordnung holds a repository to: not that the code is good, but that everything around it sits where it belongs.

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