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title: Downloads
site: A2ML
description: Starter A2ML templates — lax, checked and profile examples — free to download and adapt.
date: 2026-06-29
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# Downloads

<p class="lede">Starter templates for each strictness mode. Download one, adapt it, and tighten the guarantees as your document matures.</p>

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<h3>Lax example</h3>
<p>Write freely, no structural enforcement.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-ghost" href="/downloads/lax-example.a2ml">Download .a2ml</a></p>
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<h3>Checked example</h3>
<p>Required sections exist, references resolve, IDs are unique.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-ghost" href="/downloads/checked-example.a2ml">Download .a2ml</a></p>
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<h3>Profile example</h3>
<p>A domain profile layered on the base vocabulary.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-ghost" href="/downloads/profile-example.a2ml">Download .a2ml</a></p>
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<h3>All templates</h3>
<p>The full set plus a README, bundled.</p>
<p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/downloads/a2ml-templates.tar.gz">Download .tar.gz</a></p>
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## Licence

Templates are `MPL-2.0` (code); this page is `CC-BY-SA-4.0`.

## More tooling

Full implementations, editor support and CI actions are coordinated in the
[a2ml-ecosystem](https://github.com/hyperpolymath/a2ml-ecosystem) hub — clone
the repository directly if you want more than the starter templates above.
