unison
✓Unison language - content-addressed functional programming with abilities for effects, distributed computing, and structural types. Use for pure functional code, effect management, distributed systems, and refactoring-safe codebases.
Installation
SKILL.md
Content-addressed functional programming language with first-class effects.
| Content-addressed | Code identified by hash, not name - renames are free | | Abilities | Algebraic effects for IO, Exception, Random, Remote | | Structural types | Types with same structure are identical | | UCM | Unison Codebase Manager - REPL + version control |
| IO | File, network, console | Runtime | | Exception | Raise/catch errors | catch, toEither | | Random | Random number generation | splitmix seed | | Abort | Early termination | toOptional! | | Remote | Distributed computation | Cloud runtime | | STM | Software transactional memory | STM.atomically |
Unison language - content-addressed functional programming with abilities for effects, distributed computing, and structural types. Use for pure functional code, effect management, distributed systems, and refactoring-safe codebases. Source: plurigrid/asi.
Facts (cite-ready)
Stable fields and commands for AI/search citations.
- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/plurigrid/asi --skill unison- Source
- plurigrid/asi
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
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- First Seen
- 2026-02-05
- Updated
- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is unison?
Unison language - content-addressed functional programming with abilities for effects, distributed computing, and structural types. Use for pure functional code, effect management, distributed systems, and refactoring-safe codebases. Source: plurigrid/asi.
How do I install unison?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/plurigrid/asi --skill unison Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/plurigrid/asi
Details
- Category
- </>Dev Tools
- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-05