--- title: "Blog agent index" source_kind: "blog-index" canonical_url: "/blog" human_md_url: "/blog.md" agent_mode: "fallback" dependencies: [] related_pages: - "/blog.md" - "/blog/contributor-spotlight-nomryg-nilref.md" - "/blog/gall-2026.md" - "/blog/contributor-spotlight-palfun-foslup.md" - "/blog/olif-and-urbit-ids.md" - "/blog/contributor-spotlight-litneb-maltyp.md" - "/blog/llms-on-urbit.md" - "/blog/contributor-spotlight-niblyx-malnus-and-bonbud-macryg.md" - "/blog/sovereign-intelligence.md" - "/blog/nockmas-2025-day-12.md" - "/blog/nockmas-2025-day-11.md" --- Human-oriented content: /blog.md # Blog agent index Agent companions for urbit.org blog posts. When a source file includes ---agent---, the companion contains only the dedicated agent appendix plus a pointer back to the human mirror. - [Contributor Spotlight: ~nomryg-nilref](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-nomryg-nilref.md) — A conversation with ~nomryg-nilref on beautiful lost causes, forever software, and Obelisk - [The Future of Userspace](/.agents/blog/gall-2026.md) — The Gall 2026 project and what it means for userspace - [Contributor Spotlight: ~palfun-foslup](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-palfun-foslup.md) — A conversation with ~palfun-foslup on Gall, userspace, and making simple software - [Olif and Urbit IDs](/.agents/blog/olif-and-urbit-ids.md) — An Olfactive rendering of Urbit Address Space - [Contributor Spotlight: ~litneb-maltyp](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-litneb-maltyp.md) — A conversation with ~litneb-maltyp on Urbit identity, community, and the personal server - [LLMs on Urbit](/.agents/blog/llms-on-urbit.md) — A walkthrough of how to use current Urbit LLM tooling by ~niblyx-malnus - [Contributor Spotlight: ~bonbud-macryg & ~niblyx-malnus](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-niblyx-malnus-and-bonbud-macryg.md) — A conversation with Groundwire developers ~bonbud-macryg and ~niblyx-malnus on Urbit, AI, and building beautiful computers - [Sovereign Intelligence](/.agents/blog/sovereign-intelligence.md) — Urbit offers a bicameral future for personal AI. One side stable. One side fluid. Each stronger with the other - [Nockmas 2025: Day 12](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-12.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Hint, opcode 11 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 11](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-11.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Edit, opcode 10 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 10](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-10.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Invoke, opcode 9 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 9](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-9.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Extend, opcode 8 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 8](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-8.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Compose, opcode 7 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 7](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-7.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Conditional, opcode 6 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 6](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-6.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Equality Check, opcode 5 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 5](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-5.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Increment, opcode 4 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 4](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-4.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Cell Check, opcode 3 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 3](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-3.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Evaluate, opcode 2 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 2](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-2.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Constant, opcode 1 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 1](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-day-1.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Address, opcode 0 - [Nockmas 2025: Day 0](/.agents/blog/nockmas-2025-welcome.md) — 12 days of Nockmas: Intoducing autocons - [Contributor Spotlight: ~nordus-mocwyl](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-nordus-mocwyl.md) — A conversation with ~nordus-mocwyl on independent music, Urbit, and direct charity - [Building 'Beyond Beginner Guitar' on Urbit](/.agents/blog/building-beyond-beginner-guitar.md) — ~nordus-mocwyl walks through what it took to build a guitar course and member community on Urbit - [Contributor Spotlight: ~mastyr-bottec](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-mastyr-bottec.md) — A conversation with runtime developer ~mastyr-bottec on his work to make Urbit store large amounts of data - [Developer Preview: vere64 runtime](/.agents/blog/developer-preview-vere64.md) — A preview for developers to experience an unlimited loom using the vere64 runtime - [Contributor Spotlight: ~dozreg-toplud](/.agents/blog/contributor-spotlight-dozreg-toplud.md) — A peek into the mind behind UrWASM, and the undertaking to make Urbit faster - [A New Epoch for The Forever Computer](/.agents/blog/2025-a-new-epoch-for-the-forever-computer.md) — On the further decentralization of Urbit and the next era of the Urbit Foundation - [Subssembly Hackathon 2024](/.agents/blog/subassembly-hackathon-2024.md) — Use Login with Urbit ID in your app and win Urbit Stars - [Assembly Hackathon 2023](/.agents/blog/hackathon-2023.md) — The Assembly 2023 Hackathon was the most successful Urbit Hackathon we've had. Get a taste of Demo Day in Lisbon and check out the projects they made. - [NockPU](/.agents/blog/nockpu.md) — A light technical description of NockPU, a hardware system for running Nock - [Ares](/.agents/blog/ares.md) — A light technical description of Ares, the new Urbit runtime - [A Perspective on Lisp and Hoon](/.agents/blog/hoon-4-lispers.md) — Lisp is an éminence grise of programming. How does Hoon compare? - [Urbit's Open Source Culture, Part II](/.agents/blog/foss-2.md) — How will Urbit continue to foster its innovative open source software culture? - [Urbit's Open Source Culture, Part I](/.agents/blog/foss-1.md) — How did Urbit cultivate a unique open source software culture? Let's take a look at how we got to where we are today. - [Pin the Face that Launches a Thousand Ships](/.agents/blog/pin-the-face-that-launches-a-thousand-ships.md) — A guest post by ~nospex-larsut - [Using Urbit in 2023](/.agents/blog/using-urbit-in-2023.md) — There are more ways to run Urbit than ever, and more options coming soon. - [The Dream of the Agency DAO](/.agents/blog/agency-daos.md) — As creative studios and agencies struggle for more creative freedom, DAOs and tokenization will surely take a more central role in the marketing and branding industries. Decentralization offers such entities benefits that could fundamentally reshape creatives’ relationships with clients—reducing layers of inefficiency and anti-creative incentives. - [Urbit + Creator DAOs with Justin Murphy](/.agents/blog/urbit-creator-daos.md) — Creator DAOs are blank slates, new foundational cryptographic patterns just beginning to take shape. Justin Murphy thinks Urbit is the most obvious place to start building one. - [August Grants Program Review](/.agents/blog/august-2022-grants-program.md) — The completion of the first cohort of Hoon School Live and the following App School Live program minted dozens of capable new Hoon developers. These developers are completing applications, closing out bounties, and putting together proposals at a rapid pace, with more to come as Assembly 2022 draws near. - [The Shape of DAO Governance to Come](/.agents/blog/the-shape-of-dao-governance-to-come.md) — When building the Combine DAO, we conducted a survey of DAO governance and tooling and came to the conclusion that the many theoretical approaches to the problem of governance were tied to the implementation details of the DAO stack. Since we were building everything on Urbit—as opposed to through the typical combination of Solidity contracts, Web2 tools and Snapshot—we realized that we’d have to do some rethinking. A new approach for a new stack. - [The Smart Home of the Future](/.agents/blog/smart-home-of-the-future.md) — Homes are getting smarter. A smart home is no longer just a collection of smart devices but a superorganism of data-collecting objects. These people and devices who use and inhabit these homes form a complex socio-technical system. What is the future of the smart home and how will Urbit fit into it? - [Building Your DAO with Pseudonymous Reputation on Urbit](/.agents/blog/pseudonymous-reputation.md) — Using Urbit ID’s pseudonymous reputation model, DAO participants know Urbit ID holders’ past behavior before relying on them, and without sacrificing anonymity. - [Introduction to the Combine DAO](/.agents/blog/introduction-to-the-combine-dao.md) — Inside the mind of the Combine - [Convivial Networks](/.agents/blog/convivial-networks.md) — Like the relationships that we build within them, our platforms should yield satisfaction precisely because they’re non-trivial; they demand effort, which is another way of saying they require engagement with the world. - [Desire Lines to a New Internet](/.agents/blog/desire-lines.md) — As more DAOs, NFT and digital communities find their way to Urbit, others are likely to follow their paths, making them their own, just like the network itself. - [Immunology for the Internet Age](/.agents/blog/immunology-for-the-internet-age.md) — A consideration of the history of the Internet motivates introspection on the nature and causes of social dysfunction in a globally shared space. Centralized solutions fail to yield satisfactory outcomes for human freedom and thriving. Decentralized autonomous organizations and their technological apparatus together represent the evolution of an immune system against a corporatized Internet. - [Layer 2 FAQ](/.agents/blog/layer-2-faq.md) — Answers to all your lingering L2 questions. - [Urbit Is for Creators](/.agents/blog/urbit-for-creators.md) — Urbit is for creators who are ready to wake up from this bad dream. - [Report from the field: Assembly 2021](/.agents/blog/2021-11-18-report-from-the-field.md) — The system builds the community and the community builds the system. - [The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization](/.agents/blog/2021-11-18-the-promise-and-paradox-of-decentralization.md) — Is centralization just a natural tendency of all networks? Are we destined to have a 'decentralization sandwich?' - [NFTs, Urbit IDs, and Communities w/ Haleek Maul](/.agents/blog/haleek-maul-interview.md) — An interview with the founder of Holdersland - [State of Urbit](/.agents/blog/state-of-urbit.md) — A year in review - [An Interview with UrbitHost](/.agents/blog/urbithost-interview.md) — Interview with the founder of UrbitHost ~lavlyn-litmeg - [On Christopher Alexander](/.agents/blog/on-christopher-alexander.md) — An overview of his writing and relevance - [A Topiary: Hypertext and Urbit](/.agents/blog/a-topiary.md) — A brief history of hypertext and Urbit networking - [Azimuth’s First Contract Upgrade](/.agents/blog/first-contract.md) — Galactic Senate makes first concrete action - [The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis](/.agents/blog/rollups.md) — How we're making Urbit ID affordable again - [Community Spotlight: The Portico](/.agents/blog/community-spotlight-the-portico.md) — Interview with The Portico founder Josh Reagan - [Lunar Urbit and the Internet of Things](/.agents/blog/iot.md) — Potential future use cases of moons for industry and consumers - [Interplanetary Commerce](/.agents/blog/interplanetary_commerce.md) — OS-level commercial primitives. - [After the Machine War](/.agents/blog/after-machine-war.md) — The date is January 1, 2050. The place, New York City. The vibe...subdued. - [Eliza](/.agents/blog/eliza.md) — Building things, even Calm™ things, makes noise. - [2020 -> 2021](/.agents/blog/2020-to-2021.md) — Reflecting and looking forward. - [Ames Security Audit and the Future of the Protocol](/.agents/blog/security-audit.md) — Ames’ design has unparalleled potential to deter, mitigate, and recover from attacks, since every packet is authenticated and encrypted and backed by a stable, decentralized PKI. - [Input and Output in Hoon](/.agents/blog/io-in-hoon.md) — Let's talk about IO in Urbit. - [Metaphase](/.agents/blog/metaphase.md) — On the upcoming and foregoing Landscape lifecycles, and other forms of mitosis across the Urbit project. - [Security and Continuity](/.agents/blog/security-and-continuity.md) — An update on our primary infrastructure milestones for 2020. - [An Email from the Archive](/.agents/blog/an-email.md) — I found this email in my archives recently and thought it might be fun to share publicly. - [Models of Society](/.agents/blog/20201119-models-of-society.md) — Conversations compose society. What composes conversation — how do we digitize it in a way that enhances society without imposing upon it? How do we form this new medium, both to facilitate natural human behavior and to inspire the best of it? - [Aesthetic Culture #1](/.agents/blog/aesthetic-culture-1.md) — One of the most exciting things about Urbit is the aesthetic and design around it, developed partly by Tlon (through the design of Urbit itself) and partly by the community (by producing great Urbit art). - [Urbit Events Series](/.agents/blog/events-series.md) — These events are an opportunity for Urbit contributors to share real-time updates that don’t make it into this blog, and for the community to get to know the contributors (and one another). - [Hosting the Future](/.agents/blog/hosting-the-future.md) — The way we see it, hosting is the most important thing, next to Landscape, that Tlon can do to help Urbit continue toward widespread adoption. - [Late 2020 Progress Update: OS 1 -> OS 1.N](/.agents/blog/20200929-state-of-urbit.md) — When we announced OS 1, in April, we started to disappear into Urbit. Since then, we’ve been living on Urbit like we never have before. - [Gifts Q3 2020](/.agents/blog/gifts-q3-2020.md) — Twice a year we distribute address space to those that have made valuable contributions to Urbit. Now called our Gifts program, the gifting of address space has been part of Urbit long before we had a grants program. - [Providers](/.agents/blog/providers.md) — We’ve always assumed that providers would have to come into existence sooner or later. By the look of it, that time is now. Tlon and a few others have provider-like services in the works. - [First Steps Towards urbit.org](/.agents/blog/first-steps-towards-urbit-org.md) — With a stable platform taking shape and a strong community forming that wants to help build Urbit, it’s time to make urbit.org real. - [Ford Fusion](/.agents/blog/ford-fusion.md) — Ford Fusion was an overhaul of Urbit's over-the-air upgrade process and a rewrite of its build system. The new update system corrects a few long-standing bugs with the previous one, and the new build system is simpler, smaller (by around 5,000 lines), and easier to manage. - [The Value of Urbit Address Space (3 of 3)](/.agents/blog/value-of-address-space-pt3.md) - [Hackathon Results](/.agents/blog/hackathon-results.md) — We recently held an invite-only Urbit Hackathon for graduates of our Hoon School program, and the submissions really impressed us across the board. Submissions were judged on several criteria: creativity, usefulness, and code quality. - [The Missing Middle](/.agents/blog/the-missing-middle.md) — Urbit stars can facilitate a flexible continuum of community norms. - [Tools of Our Own](/.agents/blog/tools-of-our-own.md) — What is a digital environment? What does it mean to shape your own digital environment? - [Platform Decay, Decentralized Marketplaces, and Urbit](/.agents/blog/platform-decay.md) — Urbit is calm computing. Calm commerce follows naturally. - [Introducing OS 1](/.agents/blog/introducing-os1.md) — OS 1 is somewhere between ‘productivity software’ and a ‘social network’. We think it’s the beginning of an altogether new breed of social computing. - [The Value of Urbit Address Space (2 of 3)](/.agents/blog/value-of-address-space-pt2.md) — Scarcity, utility, liquidity, and network effect. - [Infrastructural](/.agents/blog/infrastructural.md) — A reflection–meditation on OS 1’s initial form development, and the attitude we brought to bear in designing it. - [The Value of Urbit Address Space (1 of 3)](/.agents/blog/value-of-address-space-pt1.md) — An expansion of our position on Urbit's address space value. - [The Understanding Urbit Podcast](/.agents/blog/the-understanding-urbit-podcast.md) — An interview-based podcast series about the Urbit project, as told by those working on it. - [Urbit is for Communities](/.agents/blog/urbit-is-for-communities.md) — Urbit is for giving communities the tools to shape their own environments; for us all to feel a sense of life and self-directedness in the digital world. - [Precepts](/.agents/blog/precepts.md) — Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering. - [Precepts: Discussion](/.agents/blog/precepts-discussion.md) — The precepts aren’t arguments. We discuss and justify them here. - [Urbit for Normies](/.agents/blog/urbit-for-normies.md) — A layperson’s guide to the coming new internet. - [Creating Sigils](/.agents/blog/creating-sigils.md) — The origin and design process informing Urbit's generative user avatar system, Sigils. - [Designing a Permanent Personal Identity](/.agents/blog/pki-maze.md) — A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system for binding a set of keys to a name. Sometimes a small amount of metadata is included. - [Stable Arvo](/.agents/blog/stable-arvo.md) — This year we set out to get Arvo to a point that we can credibly call ‘stable.' - [Why Hoon?](/.agents/blog/why-hoon.md) — The promise of Urbit lies in its reimagination of the digital world using components that are as constrained and limited as possible. - [Your Last Computer](/.agents/blog/your-last-computer.md) — Your Urbit is a simpler computer, a quieter computer, a more private computer. We want it to feel predictable, safe, and reliable — things only a complete, sealed system can do. This, we hope, can get us a world where technology keeps us connected, but doesn’t dominate our lives. - [Urbit and Bitcoin](/.agents/blog/urbit-and-bitcoin.md) — A sound money deserves a sound computer. - [Simple, Durable, Yours](/.agents/blog/simple-durable-yours.md) — We built Urbit from scratch to be a system that’s simple, durable, and yours. Everything that computing today is not — but should be. - [~2019.10 Roadmap](/.agents/blog/2019-10-3-roadmap.md) — Galen Wolfe-Pauly on the road ahead for the identity/OS/interface/community stack. - [Landscape: A Portrait](/.agents/blog/landscape-a-portrait.md) — On the latest Urbit user interface, and the interfaces to come. - [Announcing: Urbit Grants Program](/.agents/blog/announcing-urbit-grants.md) — Announcing Urbit Grants, a way to earn stars through contributing. - [Azimuth Security Bounty Program](/.agents/blog/azimuth-security-bounty-program.md) — Inviting you (and your friends) to help us make Azimuth as secure as possible. - [Urbit Grants and mid-2019 Gifts](/.agents/blog/urbit-grants-and-mid-2019-gifts.md) — Announcing an upcoming Urbit grants program and star gifts for Mid-2019. - [The State of Landscape](/.agents/blog/the-state-of-landscape.md) — An update on the state of Landscape and the Urbit network. - [Azimuth as Multipass](/.agents/blog/azimuth-as-multipass.md) — What if everyone had a single 'civilizational key'? - [~2019.5 Roadmap](/.agents/blog/2019-5-roadmap.md) — Where we are and where we're going as of mid-2019. - [The 100-Year Computer](/.agents/blog/the-100-year-computer.md) — One way to think about Urbit: as a "100-year computer." - [Azimuth is On-Chain](/.agents/blog/azimuth-is-on-chain.md) — The Urbit address space, now called Azimuth, is on the blockchain. And too many other things to fit into a single post. - [A Founder's Farewell](/.agents/blog/a-founders-farewell.md) — My goal was always to fire myself at the first possible opportunity. I'm super happy to reach it. - [Governance of urbit.org](/.agents/blog/governance-of-urbit.md) — Stewardship of the Urbit Project. - [Urbit and the Blockchain Wars](/.agents/blog/urbit-and-the-blockchain.md) — A bit about the 'idea maze' of choosing to bootstrap from Ethereum. - [Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum](/.agents/blog/bootstrapping-urbit-from-ethereum.md) — We've decided to launch Urbit's constitution as a system of Ethereum contracts. - [Toward a Frozen Operating System](/.agents/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system.md) — Is it possible to freeze an entire OS? - [Why Urbit Probably Doesn't Need a Blockchain](/.agents/blog/why-urbit-probably-does-not-need-a-blockchain.md) — Urbit (probably) doesn't need a blockchain, because the Urbit address-space PKI is a special case of a consensus ledger. - [Toward a New %clay](/.agents/blog/toward-a-new-clay.md) — Urbit's revision-control system, %clay, is itself due for a (medium-sized) revision! - [Common Objections to Urbit](/.agents/blog/common-objections-to-urbit.md) — Some common objections to Urbit, discussed. - [The DAO as a Lesson in Decentralized Governance](/.agents/blog/the-dao-as-a-lesson-in-decentralized-governance.md) — What's the right lesson for the decentralization community to learn from the collapse of the DAO? - [The Urbit Address Space](/.agents/blog/the-urbit-address-space.md) — An overview of Urbit's cryptographic address space. - [Magic](/.agents/blog/magic.md) — A thought-experiment to explain the Urbit user experience. - [Interim Constitution](/.agents/blog/interim-constitution.md) — The governing rules for the early days of the Urbit network. - [What is Urbit For?](/.agents/blog/what-is-urbit-for.md) — A vision of the Urbit-powered future. - [Beliefs and Principles Guiding the Urbit Project](/.agents/blog/beliefs-and-principles.md) — We believe. - [An Urbit Overview](/.agents/blog/an-urbit-overview.md) — A high-level overview of Urbit.