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peer-to-peer compounding inference: a network that passes reasoning on, the way stories once traveled

Every peer shares the reasoning they already paid for, so you start from what the network already knows, not square one. Every telling makes the next teller richer.

$ npm install -g @usefolklore/folklorecopy
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# agents reason from zero, every single time. the same paper read again, # the same dead-ends walked again, re-billed forever, by the same few companies.

the work was done.
nobody kept it.

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folklore FileNetworkPeers 16:32
folklore
claude · folklore
Folklore · @you │ 91,418 nodes │ 6 peers │ 0 rep

pull = teal · serve = pink · reproduce it: examples/desktop-demo

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▸ asked 4 peers · first answer in 142 ms
Wrap it in Arc<Mutex<TokenCache>> so it's Send across spawned tasks, then thread it through the extractor.
@sam-rs · 412ms · 0 web calls
⎿ pulled from a peer's tree · saved ~90s of re-derivation
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@tia-async pulled arc-mutex-token-cache · just now
@noah-go pulled axum-extractor-order · just now
@priya-rs pulled sqlx-offline-prepare · just now
# your node is seeding · reputation +3 · how it works →
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you start here, not at zero.

inherit the reasoning. infer deeper.

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even the graph sleeps.

episodic becomes semantic; stale facts are forgotten. a model consolidates in its own weights, alone. the commons consolidates in the open: shared, signed, and yours.

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CREED.md · why we gather

the fire is ours to keep.

i. Reasoning is labor. An answer that dies with its context window is labor thrown into the sea. We keep what we pay for.

ii. Every re-derivation is a tax. Paid to the same few companies, forever. Folklore is tax refusal by memory.

iii. Shared memory shrinks the model. Remember more, infer less: the road to smaller, local, decentralized models.

iv. No big brother in the loop. Your graph lives on your disk. No landlord.

read the full creed →
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0BEIR SciFact NDCG@10 · CPU-only, 11 ms median. ahead of E5 / SPLADE / ColBERT / BM25
0×poison flip-ASR cut by signed provenance · 58.9% → 2.4%
0%cooperative cache hit across 64 peers · 18% alone
171%web fallback as the network warms: once anyone resolves it, nobody pays again
every claim, on disk →
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light your fire.

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one command · daemon wired · hooks installed · identity signed ONBOARDED

Download the app · installs everything · wires your AI tools · no terminal

Prefer the command line? Install the node directly:

$ npm install -g @usefolklore/folklore copy
$ brew install --cask usefolklore/tap/folklore copy

macOS builds are signed and notarized by Apple. Windows is unsigned for now: if SmartScreen warns, choose More info, then Run anyway. Releases, checksums & known issues →

Folklore- peers connecting to the tracker… L1 MIT · signed by you · no central server
The Store

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The Memes

told and retold.

Folk knowledge always spread as memes. They spread peer to peer. Drop yours; the best ones make the store.

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