Urbit Improvement Proposals (UIPs)

The goals of the UIP project are to:

• Make core development decision-making visible and open to entry.
• Standardize and provide high-quality documentation for Urbit itself and conventions built upon it.

This repository tracks past and ongoing improvements to Urbit in the form of Urbit Improvement Proposals (UIPs). UIP-0001 governs how UIPs are published.

UIPs can be divided into the following categories:

• Standards Track UIPs are improvements to Urbit that require a Kelvin version decrement to any of the following components: the machine code specification, Nock; the programming language and its standard library, Hoon; the kernel, kernel modules, its standard library, or the base distribution — Arvo, vanes, zuse or %base, respectively.
• Informational UIPs describe an Urbit design issue, or provide general guidelines or information to the Urbit community, but do not propose new features. Informational UIPs do not necessarily represent an Urbit community consensus or recommendation, so users and implementors are free to ignore Informational UIPs or follow their advice.
• Process UIPs describe a process surrounding Urbit, or proposes a change to (or an event in) a process. Process UIPs are like Standards Track UIPs but apply to areas other than Urbit itself. They may propose an implementation, but not to Urbit's codebase; they often require community consensus; unlike Informational UIPs, they are more than recommendations, and users are typically not free to ignore them. Examples include procedures, guidelines, changes to the decision-making process, and changes to the tools or environment used in Urbit development. Any meta-UIP is also considered a Process UIP.

UIP

Number	Title	Owner	Status	Type
0001	Purpose and Guidelines	~wolref-podlex	Living	Process
0100	Sticky Scry	~rovnys-ricfer	Draft	Standards
0101	%lick	~mopfel-winrux	Final	Standards
0102	Symmetric Routing	~rovnys-ricfer	Withdrawn	Standards
0103	Persistent Nock Caching	~rovnys-ricfer	Last Call	Standards
0104	Scry Store	~rovnys-ricfer	Withdrawn	Standards
0105	Drop Pokes to Dead Agents	~rovnys-ricfer	Final	Standards
0106	Scry over HTTP	~watter-parter	Last Call	Standards
0107	Auras Renovation	~ponmep-litsem	Draft	Standards
0108	%yard	~lagrev-nocfep	Draft	Standards
0109	Essential Desks	~wicdev-wisryt	Last Call	Standards
0110	Gall Agent Backups	~midden-fabler, ~mopfel-winrux	Final	Standards
0111	Desk Publisher Switcher	~tinnus-napbus	Final	Standards
0112	Informal Ping	~master-morzod, ~norsyr-torryn	Final	Standards
0113	%ames: Directed Messaging	~master-morzod	Last Call	Standards
0114	OTA Approval	~tinnus-napbus	Final	Standards
0115	Breadth-First Arvo	~wicdev-wicryt, ~rovnys-ricfer	Last Call	Standards
0116	Arvo Ticks	~wicdev-wicryt, ~rovnys-ricfer	Last Call	Standards
0117	Ulam: Self-Describing Nouns	~rovnys-ricfer	Draft	Standards
0118	Encrypted Remote Scry	~hastuc-dibtux	Final	Standards
0119	Pretty Printer Improvements	~sidnym-ladrut	Draft	Standards
0120	HTTP Streaming	~rovnys-ricfer	Last Call	Standards
0121	%pine Request at Latest	~rovnys-ricfer	Draft	Standards
0122	%wild: Stateless jet registration	~ritpub-sipsyl	Last Call	Standards
0123	%loop hint: reify infinite loops as crashes	~ritpub-sipsyl	Last Call	Standards
0124	Computation Timeout Hint	~lagrev-nocfep	Last Call	Standards
0125	%eyre/%iris Webssocket Support	~fidwed-sipwyn	Draft	Standards
0126	Pierport Protocol	~littul-pocdev	Draft	Process
0127	Lagoon IEEE 754 Reals	~lagrev-nocfep	Draft	Standards
0128	Monadic Scry Interface	~fodwyt-ragful, ~mastyr-bottec	Draft	Standards
0129	Typed Paths with Coin Encodings	~rovnys-ricfer	Draft	Standards

Background

Urbit has been in development for over a decade at time of writing, and until June of 2023 was developed without the use of this UIP process. New UIPs after UIP-0001 will begin their numbering at UIP-0100 to leave room for retroactive improvements that should have canonical documentation for reference.