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title: "Software Periodic Table: A Finite Ontology of Recurring Application Elements for Compositional Code Generation"
type: software
version: 0.1.0
date-released: 2026-07-19
license: MIT

authors:
  - name: "Software Periodic Table Contributors"

repository-code: "https://github.com/nulllabtests/software-periodic-table"

keywords:
  - software-ontology
  - compositional-code-generation
  - llm-agents
  - software-engineering
  - periodic-table
  - reusability

abstract: "A curated ontology of 115 recurring software elements across six families (Objects, Properties, Actions, Interfaces, Intelligence, Rules), with typed reference implementations and a composition framework for LLM-based coding agents. The core thesis is that most application software can be expressed as compositions of a finite set of curated atoms, and that composition from such a library is more reliable and token-efficient than regenerating equivalent patterns on every task."