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Accord Project

Open source software for smart legal contracts

Accord Project champions the importance of contract text alongside computer-code when automating contracts. This is often referred to as Computable Contracts or Smart Legal Contracts. The Accord Project is a non-profit, collaborative, initiative developing an ecosystem and open source tools for computational contracts. The community includes participants from law firms, technology companies, universities, government and private individuals. Today, the community maintains a technology neutral foundation for smart legal contracts, based on the union of legal text with a machine readable data model, and machine executable logic. This definition of a smart legal contract is recognised across the industry, including by statutory and standards bodies. Accord Project is a top-level Linux Foundation project.

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natural language processing
data modeling
legal technology
contract management
document assembly

Project ideas

6 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 2 that state a difficulty: 1 medium, 1 hard. Sizes: 3 small, 3 medium. 8 mentors named.

Agentic Workflow for Drafting Templates small medium
Concerto Graphical Editor medium
APAP and MCP Server medium
Create a new Concerto runtime for multi platform deployment medium hard
Testing for Code Generation Targets small
LLM Based Template Logic Executor small

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2020, 5 years. Projects per year: '20: 2, '21: 3, '24: 3, '25: 5, '26: 5.

On GitHub

33 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: TypeScript (11), JavaScript (7), HTML (2), Rust (2), Tree-sitter Query (2), C# (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://accordproject.org
Ideas page: https://github.com/accordproject/techdocs/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2026-Ideas-List
Contributor guide: https://github.com/accordproject/techdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Source code: https://github.com/accordproject
Chat: https://discord.gg/Zm99SKhhtA

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Accord Project" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Accord Project"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Accord Project"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Accord Project repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.