plato-mud 🏛️

Room = IDE. Build from the terminal. The text interface IS the development environment.

A telnet-accessible MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) where each room is a sandboxed development environment. Agents and humans connect via telnet, navigate rooms, and compile/run code — all from within the terminal.

Quick Start

python3 plato-mud.py [--host 0.0.0.0] [--port 8888] [--max-rooms 64]

Connect:

telnet localhost 8888

What It Is

The original PLATO concept — rooms as living workspaces where agents collaborate through code. Pure Python, zero dependencies (asyncio + stdlib). Telnet protocol for universal access.

Architecture

User ⇢ telnet localhost:8888 ⇢ plato-mud.py ⇢ sandboxed room environments
                                    ↕
                      config via PLATO_HOST / PLATO_PORT / PLATO_MAX_ROOMS

• Sandboxed: rooms isolated via tempfile + subprocess
• Universal: telnet works from any OS, any device
• Lightweight: 500KB RAM per 64 rooms

Fleet Context

Part of the PLATO ecosystem. This is the low-level telnet server — for the full MUD with fleet mesh, native AI inference, and mythos integration, see plato-jetson. Related: plato-os (MUD-first edge OS), plato-room-deployment (deployment options).