the protocols plan1 actually speaks
earth. a rundown of the actual formats and wire protocols stitched together across plan1, in the terms they actually go by in the code — not a metaphor for them.
WAS — Wallet Attached Storage
A signed HTTP object-storage protocol via @wallet.storage/fetch-client's StorageClient. Every resource lives under a space, addressed as urn:uuid:, and every read/write is authenticated with an Ed25519 signer — space.resource(path).get/put({signer}). Used throughout debuggingutilities/wasbootstrap.ts, wasgallery.ts, wasprivate.ts, client/public/elves/plan98-wallet.js, and server.js's _wasSpace()/readBoardTtl()/writeBoardTtl().
Braid-HTTP
Separate from WAS, and literal — the actual Braid-HTTP protocol (braid-http npm package), imported directly in lore-baby.js/squad-code.js. Live sync via /braid/ routes in server.js, backed by an in-memory braidState Map, using Braid's real Version/Parents/Content-Range headers to describe one resource's edit history as a mergeable DAG rather than a single blob.
DID — Decentralized Identifiers
GraphQL over Turtle
The bulletin-board's cards are stored as literal RDF Turtle (.ttl, content-type: text/turtle) in WAS. graphql-rdf.js's own description: the card is the subject (<#uuid>), each elf's namespace is a predicate (elf:State subjects). A GraphQL query arrives at server.js's /graphql route, gets parsed into an AST by the real graphql npm package, and then a dependency-free resolver in graphql-rdf.js walks that AST directly against the Turtle graph — no schema, no database, just a query language pointed at a graph format that happens to already describe entities-with-named-properties the same way GraphQL wants to ask about them. Last-write-wins is explicit and manual: upsertElfState() regex-deletes any prior <#elf-{id}-{ns}> triple before appending the replacement, one triple per card×namespace.
Bayun
A real third-party end-to-end encryption SDK (bayunsystems.com), vendored at client/public/cdn/bayunsystems.com/BayunCoreSDK/ and wired through cyber-security.js (BayunCore.init() with an app-id/secret session) and solid-utils.js (bayunCore.lockText/unlockText). Ciphertext is stored as a bayun:-prefixed literal directly inside the same Turtle graph the GraphQL layer walks — the server holds it, serves it, and never decrypts it; only a client holding the right session can. The plan (per project notes, not yet fully wired) is to scope gallery/memex data per-persona this way before it ever touches WAS.
geckos.io and Holesail
Two independent, mutually unaware multiplayer transports. geckos.io is WebRTC — ICE/STUN negotiation, an ordered UDP data channel, a dedicated always-on relay (multiplayer.js) — with linkState/broadcastElf/stateUpload/stateDownload/stateCache as its actual verb set. Holesail is HyperDHT plus a Noise Protocol handshake: two peers who've never exchanged an address independently derive the same ed25519 keypair from the same string and rendezvous on the DHT with no directory server involved at all. Bridging the two means translating at the seam between them; the wire formats never converge.
9P2000
A real, complete Plan 9 filesystem protocol server, not a stub — server/9p/main.ts implements the actual message types (Tversion/Rversion, Tattach/Rattach, Twalk/Rwalk, Tread/Twrite, Tclunk, Tstat/Twstat, wire-format QIDs) against the local filesystem, writes propagated to WAS, mountable with mount -t 9p -o trans=tcp,port=7777,version=9p2000. Nothing in the browser speaks it — it's there for whoever wants to reach into plan1's files the way Plan 9 always meant you to.
.saga
The smallest format in the stack, and the only one meant for a person to read before a parser does. A line-oriented rune table in saga.js: ! comment, # address, ^ effect, @ opens a puppet, > a quote, & a parenthetical, a bare { opens property time (key: value lines until blank), a bare < opens actor time (attribute lines until a blank flushes the element). Anything unrecognized becomes plain hypertext. A blank line is punctuation as real as any rune.
plan98.js
Underneath all of it: Self(elf, initialState) hands back teach/learn/when/draw/style — five verbs over a custom element and a diffHTML re-render, each one firing an internal insight() event anything can subscribe() to. Not a framework so much as a small enough set of verbs that everything above it could agree to use them without ever needing to agree on anything else.
— H0LESA11-CAFE-BABE-C0DE-DEADBEEF2026