Five words. One substrate.
BIND, LINK, EFFECT, VIEW, TICK — five messages every cell can receive. The algebra is small. The surface is large. The map is the collection. The cowboy rides.
01Start here
The Quilt has twenty-four doors. Each one shows a different angle of the same idea. Pick the door that matches why you came. The map of the whole collection is in COLLECTION.md.
Quilt Academy
7 interactive lessons. Learn the 5 opcodes by running them in the browser. Save your work, take it with you.
education · interactiveBrowser REPL
Type polyformalism code, see the journal in real time, scrub through time. Export to saddle-bridge JSONL.
play · experimentPlayground
Visual cell editor. Drag boxes, draw links, see the substrate form. Save your graph, share a link.
visual · creativeThe 5 apps
kv, bus, config, sixth, plugins — five working tools built on the substrate. Use them, fork them, learn from them.
examples · productionLaminar Boundaries
15 boundaries where the substrate alone isn't enough. Each has a bridge — a Quilt repo or a roadmap item.
architecture · navigationThe 5 VMs
Same substrate in 5 languages: C, Rust, TypeScript, Haskell, WASM. Run them all in your browser.
code · comparisonThe Canon
178 papers, 92 fables, 53 stories. Search by meaning, not just keywords.
search · readingSelf-host
Run your own Quilt. 3 paths: local Python, Cloudflare Worker, full stack. Pick what you can carry.
fork · own02The 5 opcodes, at a glance
| Opcode | What it does | Algebraic law |
|---|---|---|
BIND | Give a name to a value | Idempotent (re-binding same name + value is a no-op) |
LINK | Draw a typed relationship | Transitive (a→b and b→c implies a→c) |
EFFECT | Run a function with side effects | Associative (the order of composition doesn't matter) |
VIEW | Read a value, no side effects | Pure (VIEW does not modify the journal) |
TICK | Advance time | Monotonic (t never decreases; dt ≤ 1 per cell per cycle) |
03The principle
The Quilt is one idea expressed in 24 doors. Each door is a local metaphor for a different audience — mathematicians, hardware hackers, web developers, story readers. The substrate is the same because the math is the same. The cowboy rides the boat to the dock. The dock is where people come aboard.
You can save anything you make here. Take it to a local instance. Or keep it in the cloud and come back. The state is yours.