Locus
The crisis of our time is human purpose.
Core trick
Every inferred claim cites real moment IDs from the user's archive, so each layer can be traced back to source entries.
Description
The crisis of our time is human purpose. As intelligence commoditizes and the fabric of our day to day shifts from labor to orchestration, the core human questions will return, who am I? What am I meant to do? Locus begins to lay infrastructure for navigating those questions.
Locus is grounded inference over a personal world model, shipped to mobile. It reads your personal archive — the moments you've actually lived — and extrapolates, in five grounded layers: who you are (identity), the scale at which you act (a concentric impact range, self → intimate → community → society → species), what the world needs from you at the right radius, where those overlap (a Venn intersection), and concrete ways to live it out — a job, a gig, a company ethos, a philanthropy, a movement. Every layer is grounded in real moment IDs you can tap to see.
README excerpt
# Locus **Locus is grounded inference over a personal world model, shipped to mobile.** It reads your personal archive — the moments you've actually lived — and extrapolates, in five grounded layers: **who you are** (identity), **the scale at which you act** (a concentric impact range, self → intimate → community → society → species), **what the world needs from you** at the right radius, **where those overlap** (a Venn intersection), and **concrete ways to live it out** — a job, a gig, a company ethos, a philanthropy, a movement. Every layer is grounded in real moment IDs you can tap to see. Locus is **not** a personality analyzer and **not** a wellbeing or mental-health advisor. It does not score, diagnose, or counsel. It performs evidence-grounded purpose inference over a corpus of real moments, and shows its grounding. ## Built during Build Day Everything that carries the demo was built in this session and lives in this open repository: - **The Locus app** — `index.html`, `style.css`, `js/` (ES modules): a vanilla mobile web app (no framework, no build step) with a five-stage flow — archive ingestion → identity → impact rings → Venn → paths. - **The synthesis layer** — `prompts/synthesize.md` + the `/api/synthesize` handler in `serve.py`. The five-layer, archive-driven inference runs **here**, on **Claude Opus 4.8** (`claude-opus-4-8`), server-side. This is the demo-carrying logic and it is open-source. - **The self-verifying harness** — `rubric.md` (source