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# Aesthetic Computer

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https://aesthetic.computer

A platform for creative computing — web runtime, bare-metal OS, social network, and federated ATProto node. Type a piece name at the prompt and something happens.

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Try: [`notepat`](https://aesthetic.computer/notepat), [`boyfriend`](https://aesthetic.computer/boyfriend), [`chat`](https://aesthetic.computer/chat), [`list`](https://aesthetic.computer/list)

## Repo

This is the monorepo. Everything lives here — the web client, session server, KidLisp language, native OS, desktop app, deployment scripts, and 359 built-in pieces.

## Score

Each major subsystem has a `SCORE.md` — the process knowledge for authors and LLMs working in that area. Scores document architecture, commands, conventions, and project direction.

- [SCORE.md](SCORE.md) — root (the whole platform)
- [fedac/SCORE.md](fedac/SCORE.md) — fedac (bare-metal OS)
- [fedac/native/SCORE.md](fedac/native/SCORE.md) — ac-native (C runtime)
- [papers/SCORE.md](papers/SCORE.md) — papers and research
- [system/public/opinion/SCORE.md](system/public/opinion/SCORE.md) — opinion

## Home

- **Tangled** (canonical): https://tangled.org/aesthetic.computer/core
- **GitHub** (deprecated read-only mirror): https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer

Self-hosted on `knot.aesthetic.computer`.

## Identity

Built by [@jeffrey](https://prompt.ac/@jeffrey) — `did:plc:k3k3wknzkcnekbnyde4dbatz`