A codex of human know-how as a public resource to humanity — plus the open-source software to coordinate human activity around it. The not-just-engineering equivalent of the open-source movement.
“Building tools for the well-intended.” This is how we coordinate as a superorganism.
The Codex is a hub of knowledge resources and open-source infrastructure — built to bring human flourishing into every person's reach. We envision something most of the developed world eventually becomes part of, to a greater or lesser degree.
Survival and thriving guides, medical know-how, open curricula, role-model casting, the craftsmanship that is all software. Shouldn't software from 10 years ago be free by now?
Open reputation systems, collective-action tools, personal-leverage automation, assistive tech. Hacked-together infrastructure that helps people help themselves.
Guilds taking on epic quests. Global sense-making. Volunteerism, philanthropy for everyone, and ways to pitch in on the problems that matter — together.
From "how to thrive as a highly sensitive person on a budget" to "how to rebuild society from scratch." Compassionate, practical, and free.
Free and open. Use them today — and help build the rest.
Translate any text into Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication — observations, feelings, needs, requests. How can AI make us more compassionate?
LiveA universal knowledge graph — the "codex" backend. Capture, connect, and query human know-how with per-node privacy.
LiveGitHub for LLM wikis. Hosting for open, agent-native markdown knowledge bases — forkable, shareable, version-controlled.
LiveOpen list & note publishing with a REST API and two-way git sync. The home for the open-lists movement.
LiveA public issue tracker for civic and shared problems — a bottom-up list of what's broken, and who's fixing it.
LiveAn open idea bank — projects, hackathon ideas, and easily-solvable world problems, free for anyone to take and build.
LiveCollaborative AI–human exploration of open problems — research rabbits and guilds working the quests, Polymath-style.
LiveOpen guide to AI-assisted coding — making the craftsmanship of software buildable by everyone.
“We need these tools, all of them, and to be honest with you, they need to be in the hands of everybody… When humans come into guilds to do epic quests, they're problem-solving, they're inventing a solution. That's how this planet's going to get fixed.” — Jack Park, on guilds & global sense-making
Practical open projects that make personal infrastructure inspectable, forkable, or locally controllable. Maintainer roles are tied to primary sources; signal sources are shown separately.
These projects are real source leads, but the public thread did not uniquely prove the exact builder/project mapping. They are not presented as endorsements.
data/humanity-infrastructure.json. Project and lead entries require status, verification, role, official link, evidence link, and last-verified fields; leads must remain verification pending with a pending reason. Signal sources are tracked separately and linked to project or lead ids. Version and update metadata are checked against that source during validation.
The infrastructure for human flourishing is mostly not built yet. Below is the running list — ideas, works-in-progress, and what's done. Lifted from the Codex master doc; we'll keep pulling in more from across the lists. See one you want to build? Claim it.
This list is open. Add an idea or claim one on the Missing Civilization Infrastructure board — or email [email protected].
These ideas are filed as real, public issues on the World Issue Tracker. Vote, discuss, or claim one to build — updates here in real time.
The Codex is an open, growing document. These are the canonical sources behind this page. Add yourself, add a project, add a resource.
We're building the more general, not-just-engineering equivalent of the open-source movement. There's an enormous amount of low-hanging fruit — and we're looking for designers, engineers, writers, healers, and well-intended humans of every kind.