Open Facilitation Library

AI-assisted facilitation is a growing field — tools like Harmonica, Talk to the City, Remesh, and others are being used for civic engagement, governance, and community sensemaking. But there's no shared language for what makes AI facilitation good, no common evaluation framework, and no open library of reusable facilitation patterns. Each team reinvents the wheel.

The Open Facilitation Library (OFL) is building the open commons for this field:

• Facilitation patterns — reusable, structured descriptions of facilitation methodologies (Why-How-Who framework) that any platform can implement
• Evaluation framework — open benchmarks for assessing AI facilitator performance, so the field can measure and improve together
• Agent skills — executable facilitation skills following the Agent Skills specification, portable across platforms
• Research monitoring — weekly automated digests tracking academic research in AI-assisted facilitation, deliberation, and collective intelligence
• Workflow documentation — how real platforms implement AI facilitation, enabling cross-platform learning

OFL is rooted in the practitioner community around Metagov's Interoperable Deliberative Tools program (21 teams, adopted by the Government of Scotland). It runs regular seminars, publishes research on an open wiki, and is developing Process Cards — standardized documentation for democratic processes that supports adoption and evaluation across the ecosystem.

GitHub: github.com/Open-Facilitation-Library