Nothing is sent anywhereCommunity Legibility Spec

Getting started

Your contacts, your card and your manifest, on your own computer

Houston BloomGetting started

Why

Make your thinking legible to others.

Keep a tight pulse on what your system is doing, sending or needing.

Cancel your subscriptions.

What you will make

Your own contact card

The first file you make. Open it on your phone, or send it to anyone.

per_your-name.vcf

Name

Email

Before you start

Install, then open your agent in a new folder

Node.js 18 or later
Claude Code
Kiwix
A new, empty folder
Open your agent there

KiwixOpens a shareable sent as one packed .zim file, offline.

CheckStep 1 checks your Node.js version.

Paste into your agent

One prompt does steps 1 to 9

Fill in your name, your email and the packet's path.

Set me up with the Community Legibility Spec packet at <packet>.
My name is <Your Name> and my email is <you@example.org>.
Follow <packet>/SETUP.md steps 1 to 9 in this folder, in order, using the By hand commands.
After each step, check the output against "You should see" and stop if it differs.
Do not send anything anywhere. When you are done, show me my dashboard and tell me where my card is.

See the prompt

Set me up with the Community Legibility Spec packet at <packet>.
My name is <Your Name> and my email is <you@example.org>.
Follow <packet>/SETUP.md steps 1 to 9 in this folder, in order, using the By hand commands.
After each step, check the output against "You should see" and stop if it differs.
Do not send anything anywhere. When you are done, show me my dashboard and tell me where my card is.

Check

Your dashboard opens

You should seeYour agent works through the steps and ends with your dashboard open and the path to your card.

If notYour agent stops at the step whose output differs.

Or set it up yourself

Steps 1 to 6

01Check Node.js
02Make your folder
03Keep a note of where this came from
04Copy the skills and tell them your folders
05Add yourself
06Make your card

Or set it up yourself

Steps 7 to 11

07Start your manifest
08Add your first person
09Open your dashboard
10Share something
11End a session

Do this

Share something

This logs the send. It sends nothing.

/share I made notes/for-sam.md for First project and sent it to Sam Lee. Log the make and the send, and record it against Sam.

See the prompt

/share I made notes/for-sam.md for First project and sent it to Sam Lee. Log the make and the send, and record it against Sam.

Check

The send is logged

You should see`OK`, the `.zim` path, its `bytes` and `sha256`. A `FAIL` line names what to fix in the page; nothing is written.

ThenYour dashboard shows the exchange.

Do this

End a session

Every row is checked: still there, and when it was last active.

/map End of session: check my manifest.

See the prompt

/map End of session: check my manifest.

What it builds

One prompt, your own folder

The packetYour name and email

Contacts, card, dashboard, manifest

The first row of your manifest is this packet, received from Houston Bloom. It stays on your machine.

Your call

You decide what leaves

Every folder you map starts private. A redacted copy for one person is the only file that leaves.

Where next

Read how each part works

Getting started: https://houstonbloom.github.io/houstonbloom/cls/getting-started.html
What a contact is: https://houstonbloom.github.io/houstonbloom/cls/contact.html
What the manifest is: https://houstonbloom.github.io/houstonbloom/cls/manifest.html
Sharing something: https://houstonbloom.github.io/houstonbloom/cls/sharing.html