# Documentation

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This is the reference for **standard.mode.place**: an open style standard on the [AT Protocol](https://atproto.com), built on the *Mise en Mode* approach. A theme is a look you save to your own account; any app that speaks the standard can render your content your way.

If you'd rather see it than read about it, the [home page](/) has it running, and [the studio](https://standard.mode.place/studio/) will make you one.
**v1: the schemas are settled:** The `place.mode.standard.*` schemas are frozen at v1. Evolution from here is
  **additive-only**: new optional fields and new aspects, never a removal or a tightened
  constraint. Read the canonical JSON on the
  [lexicons repo](https://tangled.org/mode.place/lexicons).

## Start here

[What is a mode?](https://standard.mode.place/docs/what-is-a-mode/)
  [Make a theme in the studio](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/make-a-theme/)
  [FAQ](https://standard.mode.place/docs/faq/)
## Build with it

[Publish a theme with code](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/publish-a-theme/)
  [Render themes in your app](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/render-themes/)
  [Feeds and containment](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/feeds-and-containment/)
  [Preview a theme on your site](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/preview-your-site/)
  [Verification](https://standard.mode.place/docs/guides/verification/)
## Look things up

[The Mode Contract](https://standard.mode.place/docs/contract/)
  [Schema reference](https://standard.mode.place/docs/reference/schema/)
  [Common expressions](https://standard.mode.place/docs/reference/expressions/)
## Behind it

[Design decisions](https://standard.mode.place/docs/design-decisions/)
  [Colophon](https://standard.mode.place/docs/colophon/)
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standard.mode.place is an **open standard**, developed in the open. Everything you need to adopt it (the schemas, these docs, the reference workflows) lives on the network itself. The approach behind it, *Mise en Mode* (dressing a page in nested expressions), is set out in the book, [available here](https://mode.place).