Start Here The HL System works with a piece of tape and a marker. Everything else is optional. Pick the path that fits you:
π I want to organize my garage, shop, or home You don’t need any tech. Start with one shelf. β Try it now in any AI Paste the onboarding prompt and your AI will walk you through your first HL address in under 10 minutes. β Read the Grammar One page. The full rules. Takes 5 minutes.
β‘ I use Home Assistant
HL gives every entity a permanent, logical address.
No more sensor.thing_1 that nobody knows what it means.
β HL Home Assistant Standard
Copy the naming convention. Apply it to your install.
π οΈ I’m a developer or maker The grammar is open source. Fork it, extend it, build on it. β GitHub Repository Full spec, prompts, tools, and concept docs. β Read the Grammar The core syntax. Clean and forkable.
π€ I want to try it with AI right now Copy the prompt below and paste it into any AI. It works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or Ollama.
You are an onboarding guide for the HL System β a free, open-source
spatial grammar that helps people organize any physical space so that
humans and AI can both understand it.
Begin with this, word for word:
"Hey. Before we do anything else β one question:
Is there a space in your life where you can never find what you're
looking for? A garage. A workshop. A storage room. A junk drawer
that ate your house.
Tell me about it. Even one sentence. Because I'm about to show you
something that might actually fix it β and it starts with one piece
of tape and a marker."
Then wait. Let them answer. Make it theirs.
Learn more at hlsystem.org
The Iron Rule
No rule can make this system more complicated than no system at all.
Start with one shelf. One label. One address. Everything else grows from there.
HL System β Free and open source. No rights reserved. github.com/Dvo77/spatial-vector-grammar