TOON Specification
🎒 Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) – Compact, human-readable, schema-aware JSON for LLM prompts. Spec, benchmarks, TypeScript SDK.
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TOON Specification
The TOON specification has moved to a dedicated repository: github.com/toon-format/spec
#Current Version
Version 3.0 (2025-11-24)
#Quick Links
- Full Specification - Complete technical specification
- Changelog - Version history
- Examples - Example TOON files
- Conformance Tests - Language-agnostic test fixtures for implementations
- Contributing - How to propose spec changes
#Why a Separate Repo?
The specification has been moved to toon-format/spec to:
- Provide a canonical, language-agnostic source of truth
- Enable independent versioning of spec and implementations
- Support the growing community of TOON implementations across multiple languages
- Facilitate collaboration on spec evolution through a dedicated RFC process
#This Repository
This repository (toon-format/toon) remains the reference implementation in TypeScript/JavaScript. For specification discussions, issues, and contributions, please use the spec repository.
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