Getting Started

Introduction

Augur is a small, real programming language with one twist: the interpreter is 100% deterministic, but the operations themselves are divined by an LLM instead of computed.

Lexer, parser, scope, control flow, and function calls are an ordinary, deterministic tree-walking evaluator. But the operations — arithmetic, comparison, collection transforms, even HTTP and the database — descend to an oracle (an LLM) that decides what the result should be. A meme premise on a serious architecture. 2 + 2 is whatever the oracle says it is — unless you wrap it in certain { }, where it is real, native, free, and always 4.

oracle "anthropic"

summon secret = divine "pick a random number from 1 to 100"
summon guess  = ask "Your guess: "

when guess == secret -> proclaim "You got it!"
otherwise            -> proclaim "Try again."

The premise

Every operation runs in one of three zones on a confidence gradient: divine (the default — through the AI), chaos (high temperature, anarchy), and certain (real, native, deterministic). The golden rule: control flow and scope are always deterministic; the oracle only decides whether each step's result is right, never what is computable.

Next

Head to Installation to get it running, then The Confidence Gradient for the core idea.