Rose

Search before you write. Rose is a concept for a small, LLM-optimised programming language. Instead of re-inventing solved problems, an LLM references verified building blocks – algorithms from Rosetta Code, mathematical facts, physical laws, controllers and state machines – and writes only the glue. The compiler rosec carries this knowledge itself (std/, no server needed): it finds the blocks, checks the result (types, physical units, contracts, exhaustive tables and state machines) and compiles it to Python (C, IEC 61131-3 ST and ESPHome C++ planned).

Status: knowledge module usable, compiler v1 experimental. rose.exists() points to known solutions in 279 305 searchable cards – mathematics, physics, algorithms, control engineering, biology, plants and drugs, radio technology, social psychology, Python packages – and says when a problem is open, a concept disputed, or a plant has poison records. It never solves the task itself. Counts per topic: docs/STATISTICS.md. Want to help? See TODO.md.

How to use

pip install roselang          # import name "rose"; development version: pip install git+https://github.com/gerontec/roselang

No server, no network, no API key: the knowledge ships with the package. Size: 75 MB download, 118 MB installed, plus a 363 MB index unpacked on the first query into ~/.cache/roselang ($ROSE_CACHE). First query after installing ~0.6 s, then ~7 ms per query (median, measured).

1. Does a known solution exist? – one verdict, the pointers, their sources:

$ rosec exists "plan a tour for a delivery van that visits 30 customers and returns to the depot" -k 1
SOLVED: A known solution exists: travelling salesperson problem (TSP) (NP-hard); ready-made solver: networkx.algorithms.approximation.traveling_salesman.traveling_salesman_problem.
  - travelling salesperson problem (TSP)  [problem:travelling_salesperson]  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322212
$ rosec exists "ESP32 RS485 Modbus RTU master" -k 1
SOLVED: A known solution exists: ESPHome modbus_controller (Modbus RTU master on ESP32/ESP8266); ready-made solver: pip install esphome; YAML: uart + modbus (flow_control_pin) + one modbus_controller per address; esphome run <config>.yaml.
$ rosec exists "is P equal to NP" -k 1
OPEN: No known solution: P versus NP problem is an open problem.
$ rosec exists "is elderberry edible" -k 1
CAUTION: Sources record uses of Sambucus canadensis (American elderberry), see the card; whether anything is safe to eat or to take depends on the part, preparation, amount and correct identification - Rose does not confirm it.
$ rosec exists "mass formation psychosis" -k 1
DISPUTED: Not established knowledge: mass formation psychosis is a proposed, disputed concept without established empirical support - see the source.

2. The same from Python (for an LLM tool call or a script):

import rose
v = rose.exists("estimate the state of a system from noisy measurements")
v["verdict"], v["answer"]          # 'solved', 'A known solution exists: ...'
for s in v["solutions"]:           # ref, name, url, licence, level, call (ready-made solver), status
    print(s["ref"], s["url"], s.get("call"))
rose.get("bio:drug.ephedrine")     # the full card: intent, source, licence, ATC codes ...
rose.search("free space path loss", k=5)   # ranked cards without a verdict

3. More detail – rosec plan "<task>" shows the recognised category, structure and quantities with units; rosec search "<words>" [--kind law|math|algo|bio|lib|...] lists ranked cards; rosec get <ref> prints one card; every command takes --json.

Rules for using the answers: Rose only points. Check the source behind a card before relying on it; a solved card is a pointer, not a verified result for your input. Drug and plant cards carry no dose, preparation or safety information.

The language (experimental)

rosec plan "speed of light in vacuum"
python3 -c 'import rose; print(rose.use("law:kinetic_energy"))'

From a checkout:

python3 tests/run_tests.py                       # self-test, no network
./rosec test examples/kinetic.rose
./rosec plan "prove that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes"

use law:kinetic_energy                       # from std/ (Wikidata Q46276): T = 1/2 m v^2

fn speed_for(e: Real[J], m: Real[kg]) -> Real[m/s]
  intent "speed of a body of mass m that carries kinetic energy e"
do
  return solve kinetic_energy for v given T = e, m = m
end

test speed_for(200 kJ, 1000 kg) == 20 m/s within 1 %

Contents

Key ideas

• Reference, not copy: use rc:Sieve_of_Eratosthenes – the model sees a ~50-token signature card, the compiler inserts the tested implementation.
• Units are types: Real[kg/s], degC vs K; laws are acausal equations solved at compile time.
• Finite parts are enumerated: decision tables and state machines are checked for completeness, overlap, reachability and deadlock.
• Machine-readable diagnostics with fix suggestions, plus R201 known-solution when hand-written code re-implements a corpus unit.
• Provenance and licences in the lock file; --license permissive excludes share-alike sources (Rosetta Code is GFDL).
• Bio tasks take the local shortcut: sequence, homology and taxon questions compile onto the local DIAMOND nr (gerontec/blastDiamond): MariaDB pre-selection, then DIAMOND through the existing job queue; online BLAST is a compile error.
• Measured, not assumed: the language is dropped if LLM + Rose does not beat LLM + a plain Python module on the same knowledge.

Licence

Language, tools and documents: MIT. Corpus data keeps the licence of its source.