Spectrum of True Friends Network

Build a research archive you actually own.

A research engine for people who take knowledge seriously. The Researcher Agent assembles durable, fully-sourced archives on any subject — every record reviewed by you, every claim cited, every file plain text on your own disk.

Today I'm researching quantum foundations.

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Spectrum of True Friends Network

Research dossier · Series I

AB-8842
11F0-9A3C

Subject

The Antikythera Mechanism

Geared astronomical computation · c. 100 BCE

Type: Artifact
Evidence: Tier I
Sources: 6 verified

Storage Plain text on disk

Records You approve each one

Output Cited PDF dossiers

License AGPL-3.0

Mission

Knowledge worth keeping. Held by the people who built it.

The institutions that once curated shared knowledge are consolidating, paywalling, and quietly rewriting. Spectrum of True Friends Network (SoTFN) is infrastructure for the alternative: rigorous, independent archives that belong to the researcher, not the platform.

One workspace might document quantum information theory; another, watershed ecology; another, the history of cryptography. The engine is topic-agnostic. The standard of evidence is yours — but provenance, sources, and open questions are always on the page.

We are building toward a culture of distributed, durable, freely held knowledge — worldly, printable, and independent of any single platform or gatekeeper.

Product

Researcher Agent

The open-source engine behind every SoTFN archive. A Hermes agent drafts on a schedule you set. You approve from Telegram. Plain Markdown you own.

Entries as source of truth

Curated markdown with YAML frontmatter. The database, indexes, and PDFs are derived — regenerable anytime from the files on disk.

Approval is sacred

Agents draft; you decide. Nothing joins your permanent archive without an explicit approve. Automation never self-publishes.

Integrity first

Real archival images only. Verified source URLs. Broken assets are detached and queued — never silently rewired with a wrong match.

Topic-agnostic

Scaffold any workspace. Voice, brand, and vocabulary live with the collection — the engine stays reusable across subjects.

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Who it serves

Built for serious work.

One discipline of evidence, three kinds of practitioner.

Independent researchers

Assemble a reference library no employer or subscription can revoke. Citations, evidence tiers, and open questions on every record — your scholarship, kept under your own roof.

Writers & creators

A sourced, fact-checked backbone for essays, video, and reporting. Each entry ships with verifiable provenance, so your audience can follow the trail you followed.

Communities & institutions

Stand up a shared archive on plain Markdown under version control. Distributed by design, auditable end to end, and resilient to the loss of any one host.

Method

How it works

Three steps. Full editorial control. You only keep what you approve.

01

Commission a record

Choose a topic from your backlog. The Researcher Agent researches it, sources real archival imagery, verifies every link, and returns a complete dossier — narrative, anomaly, provenance, and open questions.
02

Review on your phone

Every dossier arrives in Telegram with a decision that is yours alone. Approve, and it joins your permanent archive. Decline, and it leaves no trace. Nothing is published without your sign-off.
03

Compile your archive

Approved records live as plain Markdown under version control — the single source of truth. Rebuild indices, render dossier PDFs, or publish a browsable site. Your encyclopedia, your standard, on your disk.

Principles

Evidence first. Infrastructure you control.

Sovereign by design

No proprietary database, no lock-in. Records are Markdown with structured frontmatter — readable in a century, recoverable with one command, diffable like code.

Provenance first

Every record carries verified source URLs, an evidence tier, and its open questions. Where the literature is incomplete, the record says so — curiosity without fabrication.

Print-ready dossiers

Each approved record renders as a single-page dossier PDF — suitable for citation, binding, and keeping offline beside your paper library.

Open & portable

Git history and content hashes make the archive auditable end to end. Clone it, fork it, mirror it — independent of any cloud, account, or single point of failure.

Collections

The engine, proven in the field.

Every collection is its own workspace. The first is public.

Inaugural collection

Misrule

The inverted archive — anomalous, suppressed, and contested history, held to the same standard of evidence.

394records

210centuries covered

100%sourced & reviewed

Updated 16 August 2026, 01:45 UTC

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Open source

The Researcher Agent is public. Your archive is yours.

Clone it, fork it, run it on your own machine. Stand up a workspace for any subject — the research pipeline, Hermes schedules, Telegram approval, and PDF renderer are all in the repository, under the GNU Affero GPL v3.

Read the setup guide