routinesglove

Routinesglove is a hypothetical open‑source software framework intended for organizing, composing, and executing reusable procedural routines within software systems.

Designed to support modular development, routinesglove provides a lightweight runtime, a routine library, and a plugin system that allows developers to register new routine types and adapters for external services.

Key concepts include a routine, which encapsulates a unit of work with defined inputs and outputs; a composition model that supports sequential, parallel, and looping patterns; and an execution engine that manages lifecycle events, error handling, and tracing.

Typical workflow: developers implement routines as small, testable units; they register them in a routine registry; applications assemble routines into workflows using a composition syntax or API; the runtime executes the workflows, collecting metrics and propagating results.

Architecture emphasizes portability across languages via adapters, and isolation through sandboxed execution contexts.

Origin and status: routine glove originated in educational and theoretical discussions to illustrate modular orchestration concepts; while described in literature and mock projects, it is not a real, widely adopted framework.

See also: GloVe, a separate technology for word representations, which is unrelated to routinesglove.