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Paraphase ​

Pipeline orchestrator for data conversion.

Status: Fleshed Out ◐

Production-ready CLI (core, plugin, serde, image, video, audio, cli crates) with broad serialization and image format coverage, memory budgeting, and comprehensive documentation including ADRs. Main gaps: audio/video encoders and schema-dependent formats.

Paraphase is a type-driven route planner for asset pipelines. Instead of writing conversion recipes, you declare source and destination—Paraphase finds the path.

Key features ​

  • Route planning - Declare intent, Paraphase finds the conversion path
  • Normalized options - One vocabulary maps to tool-specific flags
  • Plugin architecture - Converters are dynamic libraries
  • Agent-friendly - Two-phase plan→execute for LLM integration

How it works ​

bash
# Task runner: you write the recipe
blender --background --python export.py -- input.blend output.glb

# Paraphase: you declare intent
paraphase convert model.blend optimized.glb --optimize

Use cases ​

  • Game asset pipelines (textures, meshes, audio)
  • Batch image/video conversion
  • Format migration
  • Any "I have X, I need Y" transformation
  • rescribe - Lossless document conversion (complementary transformation domain)