The Agora is a distributed knowledge graph and experimental social network designed to aggregate individual digital gardens into a shared commons — a space where notes, ideas, and resources from many contributors are woven together into a collectively navigable whole. The reference instance lives at anagora.org, but anyone can run their own Agora using the same open-source tooling, and all compatible instances are designed to federate into a larger Agora network.Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/flancian/garden/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
What makes the Agora different
Most knowledge tools are siloed: your notes live in your tool, your collaborator’s notes live in theirs. The Agora inverts this. Instead of asking everyone to write in the same place, it reads from wherever people already write — Markdown files in Git repositories, federated wiki pages, social media posts — and assembles them into a unified graph at read time. Each contributor keeps full ownership of their writing. The Agora adds a layer of resolution on top: when two people both write about[[distributed systems]], their notes appear together at the same node. No merge, no central database, no lock-in.
The Agora at anagora.org is described as one instance of many. It is intentionally a work in progress and explicitly designed to be inclusive and open source.
The commons model
Agoras are spaces kept by communities with explicit goals and open protocols. Participation means volunteering your writing and media to the commons under terms you agree to. The root repository for the reference Agora contains aCONTRACT.md — a public commitment from the system account to the ecosystem — and a gardens.yaml that lists all participating gardens.
The Agora is connected to Flancia, a project exploring how distributed knowledge infrastructure can support real-world cooperation and mutual aid.
Contributing from anywhere
You do not need to run a server or clone a repository to contribute. Through Agora Bridge, your writing can enter the Agora from:- A digital garden (Markdown files in a Git repository)
- Mastodon via @agora@botsin.space
- Twitter/X via @an_agora
- Federated wiki pages
GitHub repositories
The Agora is fully open source across three repositories:| Repository | Purpose |
|---|---|
| flancian/agora | Root config, gardens.yaml, and CONTRACT.md |
| flancian/agora-server | Read-only Python/Flask web frontend |
| flancian/agora-bridge | Ingestion, bots, and bridges for writing to the Agora |
Explore further
Agora Protocol
Learn the layered text conventions — wikilinks, hashtags, and social actions — that power cooperative knowledge sharing.
System architecture
Understand how the three repositories fit together and how data flows from gardens into the served graph.
Knowledge graph
See how nodes, subnodes, and wikilink resolution combine to form the distributed Agora graph.