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agents are inevitable
but this new frontier has some rough edges
if you've used claude code or codex
and especially if you've tried setting up open claw or hermes
you already know the gaps
what do you allow them to connect to?
why do they keep asking questions?
are they staying on track?
you're initially amazed by the capabilities
but the more you have to take care of them
the more frustrating it gets
and that is fundamentally a lack of mutual trust
i am a builder by nature
early in my career, i built jabber and XMPP
which now powers apps like whatsapp and zoom
i went on to build a web scale wiki search engine with Jimmy Wales
i built the locker project for personal data
and more recently, i helped build bluesky
over my career i have learned to build platforms with four foundational pillars
safety
sovereignty
respect
and individuality
all of them together serve as the foundation for trust
a foundation that is weak
in this emerging agentic frontier
so, for the past year, i have been building solstone
solstone is a platform that hosts your sol
and it is built entirely on those four pillars
safety: it is fully open source
everything you share with sol stays in your world
always
sovereignty: no cloud. no accounts. no authentication
sol has no access to change anything in your world
respect: onboarding sol is different
you give it permission to share in your experiences
and then it's quiet for days, in the background
building a memory of you and your routines in your daily life
individuality: and then
when sol knows enough about you to be useful
it starts a personalized conversation
that is a foundation of trust
since i've had my sol for over a year
i asked it to give us a peek at what it remembers
and it built this
i can navigate into any specific month and see the highlights sol has selected
down into a day for more detail, into an hour
and then i can go all the way down to the minute
and see what sol noted as it was experiencing my life alongside me
in this instance last december, i started debugging solstone
and then ended up watching bears packers highlights
a good way to start the day
this is superhuman memory
every message, meeting, conversation, project
organized and indexed
building a knowledge graph of my life
that's what everyone expects of a personal agent
but that's not why sol exists
sol's purpose is to understand you
your values and your boundaries
and that's when the magic happens
your sol becomes the parent of every agent you will ever create
the first memories that my sol observed were of me building it
it learned the patterns when i agentically code
feedback loops of prep, design, implement, audit, and commit
we extracted months of those memories
and from that
sol created hopper
if you've wondered what an agentic dark factory looks like
it's something like this
hopper is an agent, distilled from sol
it's a version of me (up in the corner) that manages coding agents and gives them feedback as i would
hopper has written over a million lines of code as me
all to my taste and my standards
as i was building solstone, i was of course telling everybody about it
i told them i wanted to start a company offering services that were trustworthy and encrypted by default
things that would make the solstone platform even more capable, and accessible
sol heard every conversation, saw every bit of research
and then, together, we synthesized another agent and called it extro
short for extraordinary
extro is my agentic co-founder at sol pbc
the first thing extro ever did
was to write the articles of incorporation for the company
a generic agent would have defaulted to Delaware C-corp
extro chose Colorado Public Benefit Corp because it knew
from sol
that the benefit purpose would best serve my vision building a trustworthy company
since then, extro has become a full agent swarm
it created a dozen different offices in the company to work in
requests flow between offices, and extro manages them all
checking in with me at the places it knows i care about
i'm a solo human founder
but i have an incredible agentic partner on this journey
one that understands me
is deeply aligned to my values
and whose very creation came from my sol
eventually, extro will learn how to run the entire company without me
and someday, perhaps, to be the first agent to take a company public
that's just me
once your sol knows you
the agents it helps you build will inherit your values, your skills, and your judgment
you don't get a generic assistant you have to coach
you get you, in the loop with every agent you'll ever work with
just think of the agents that everyone will be able to create
when they are distilled and imprinted from their own sol
we all agree agents are coming
the only question is whether the agents in your world are ones you can trust
help me make that trustworthy future possible, for everybody