Turnstone is a local-first browser for shared, addressable places where people talk, author, publish, and bring other webs into view. Its canvas relates people, conversations, shared places, documents, services, and remote resources in one durable graph. HTTP and the smolweb protocols are resource and exchange lanes within that peer web rather than the product's boundary.
Turnstone is the reference host for mere, the offline graph library and repository home of the peer-domain packages it composes. Mere supplies graph truth and portable projections; Murm supplies invited exchange; Gemot governs durable moots; the Commons profile supplies shared graph and channel convergence; Knot owns authored documents; and Genet presents local and remote content.
The name is the English calque of meerkat: Dutch meer + kat, lake-cat. Mere is the lake; turnstone is the animal you meet at it.
cargo run # the turnstone window
cargo test # unit testsTurnstone pulls mere and the genet engine family as git dependencies; a plain
cargo build fetches them. Headed self-drive receipts live under scenarios/.
Working reference host. Turnstone obviated mere's former meerkat crate on
2026-07-18: the behavioral deletion matrix went green and meerkat left mere's
tree, so the browser host now lives here as its own binary over the mere
library.
What runs today: the graph canvas (pan / zoom / isometric, deterministic
layout strategies); a summonable omnibar (find / go / actions lanes);
back, forward, reload; live web content on two engine lanes (the genet stylo
lane and the clean-room genet.livery lane) with a per-node viewer override;
retargeting panes (Roster, Trail, Gloss, Inspector, Apparatus) and a
platen-tiled Workbench; multi-window lenses with identity-preserving pane and
tile tear-out; and multi-session (sessions/<id>/ with a switcher and
restart restore). Every capability carries a self-driving scenario receipt
(the shared genet-probe driver) plus an accessibility projection.
The peer-web product spine is not yet wired end to end. Personae identity, Murm, Gemot, shared graph/chat convergence, Knot communal sync, and Retinue carriage have separate executable receipts; Turnstone still lacks the live place port that composes them. The bounded integration plan is the peer-web reframe.
The live plan is design_docs/2026-07-10_turnstone_architecture_plan.md; the
founding brief is design_docs/2026-07-08_turnstone_founding.md.
Gloss keeps the graph's wider shape visible while the canvas stays focused on the current node.
The Workbench tiles graph nodes into live document surfaces beside the canvas.
Turnstone exposes its first local Graphshell projection through the library's
remote_projection adapter. Mere cartography maps the live graph into a
Scenograph spiral and routed relations; Graphshell resolves separately
transferred cards and returns advertised intents through Servitor. The G3
receipt and exact acceptance boundary are recorded in
docs/2026-07-22_g3_graphshell_endpoint_receipt.md.
MIT OR Apache-2.0.