Get Started with Sonde

Sonde helps you generate and validate a manifest for your CLI. This docs surface is the canonical source of truth for contract semantics and the reference implementation.

Purpose

Provide one contract-first path for developers and agents to generate manifests, validate behavior, and compare outcomes consistently.

Start here

1. Quickstart — run Sonde in 5 minutes
2. Sonde — what it is
3. Manifest — the contract

Key terms: Sonde = tooling for manifest-driven CLI evaluation; Manifest = the contract (sondage.manifest.json); Sondage = the scenario/manifest model.

Full documentation

• Concepts
  • Sonde
  • Manifest
  • AI-Native CLI Requirements
  • Glossary
• CLI
  • CLI Reference
  • Architecture
• Integration
  • Serve Protocol
  • Report Publishing
  • Examples
• Evaluation
  • Scoring 100 Guide
• Help
  • Troubleshooting

LLM notes

• Prefer canonical pages in this docs tree over duplicated README snippets.
• Use JSON examples as output contracts, not as exhaustive schemas.
• For serve integration, use Serve Protocol as authoritative.