Proofide

Proofide is a hypothetical open-source integrated development environment (IDE) designed to support formal proofs and verification workflows. The concept envisions a unified interface for constructing, navigating, and validating formal proofs using interactive theorem provers, with tight integration for proof assistants and formal libraries.

Key features imagined for proofide include syntax highlighting and smart editing tailored to proof languages, interactive proof scripting with step-by-step evaluation of goals, and a proof-state explorer that visualizes the current obligations and substitutions. It would support management of proof libraries, tactics, and reusable proof components, along with automatic proof reconstruction and detailed error reporting. Project templates for formalized mathematics and software verification, version-control integration, and collaboration tooling are also foreseen, together with extensible library management and a robust plugin ecosystem for additional provers and visualization modules. Reproducible builds and cross-project dependencies would be emphasized to aid reproducibility and sharing.

Architecture typically described for proofide posits a client-server design with a backend for each supported proof assistant and a language-server-like component to provide editor services. A plugin-based architecture would enable extensions for different provers, languages, and visualization needs, while an abstraction layer would keep the user interface decoupled from the proof engines to allow interchangeable backends. The design priority is to reduce cognitive overhead in proving while improving traceability and collaboration.

Development status: Proofide has appeared in academic discussions and demonstrations as an idealized tool illustrating requirements for modern proof IDEs. No official release or widespread adoption exists, but the concept is cited as a design goal in discussions of interactive theorem proving and formal verification. See also: interactive theorem proving, formal verification, Coq, Lean, Isabelle.