Open Facilitation Library
Open standards for AI-assisted facilitation and deliberative democracy. Research, patterns, agent skills, and workflow definitions — all open source.
Seminars
The OFL seminar series brings together experts in facilitation, deliberative democracy, and AI-assisted dialogue.
Browse all seminars | Recent: Alice Siu, Jigsaw, Martin Carcasson
Research
Key papers and research topics supporting OFL development.
| Paper | Description |
|---|---|
| WHoW Framework | Cross-domain moderation analysis (Chen et al. 2024) |
| Fora Corpus | 262 facilitated dialogues from MIT (Schroeder et al. 2024) |
| D-agree Platform | Automated facilitation agent at crowd scale (Ito et al. 2022) |
| Facilitation in the AI Era | Ethnographic study of 22 expert facilitators (Jigsaw 2025) |
| Cueing the Crowd | LLM conversational cues for brainstorming (Rayan et al. 2025) |
| LLM Facilitation Survey | Comprehensive survey on LLM-based facilitation (Korre et al. 2025) |
| Generative Social Choice | LLM-augmented democratic processes (Fish et al. 2025) |
More: LLM vs Human Facilitation | Techniques | Mini-Publics | Storytelling
Knowledge Base
Core concepts and definitions shared across OFL projects.
- Glossary - Term definitions
- Conversation Types - Deliberative, generative, transformative
- AI Facilitation Approaches - Fine-tuning vs inference-time
Evaluation Frameworks
Tools for assessing facilitation quality through structured comparison. Source: evals repo.
- Why-How-Who Framework — Encode, compare, and evaluate facilitation methodologies
- Conversation Signatures — Compute measurable similarity to reference methodologies
Browse evaluation frameworks →
OFL Architecture
The Open Facilitation Library has three complementary layers:
- Patterns (this knowledge base) — abstract facilitation methodologies: cross-pollination, Delphi, retrospectives, and more. Described using the Why-How-Who framework.
- Agent Skills — executable agent skills following the Agent Skills specification, designed for AI platforms like Harmonica or OpenClaw.
- Workflows — how real platforms orchestrate agents into complete facilitation systems. 14 platforms documented with agent roles, participant models, and stage pipelines.
Related Repositories
- skills — Executable agent skills (Agent Skills spec)
- workflows — Agent workflow definitions for 14 AI facilitation platforms
- evals — Evaluation frameworks and conversation signatures
- cross-pollination — Opinion exposure algorithms
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Contributing
- Add research summaries
- Propose evaluation criteria
- Submit pull requests with documentation