This returns the root of the current Origami project. The root is found by walking up the filesystem folder hierarchy from the current working directory, searching for the first folder that contains an config.ori file. That folder, if found, is returned as the result of project(). If no such folder is found, the current working directory is returned.
See also config, which returns the configuration exported by config.ori (if the project defines one) or the built-in functions (if the project has no explicit configuration file).