Civweave turns a wish into a path through learning, useful work, fair exchange, and civic action. It is local-first, community-hosted, and designed to keep working when the network does not.
State your intention.A Weaveling turns it into doors you can actually walk through.
…commits woven into Civweave
…first thread committed
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The story
Anarchadia was torn. So someone built doors.
The world of Civweave begins in Anarchadia, a land whose magic once lived in ordinary cooperation. Then an anti-magic fascist uprising taught people to distrust one another, surrender their agency, and wait for a dark warlock emperor to promise that someone else would make life meaningful again.
The frantic invention
In the story, Civweave is assembled as a box of enchanted manifestation tools. Not a single spell, but a kit: a school for turning curiosity into competence, a workshop for turning competence into useful work, a market for moving resources where they matter, and a civic foundry for deciding what happens next.
The point is not to defeat darkness by becoming better at punishment. The point is to make abandonment less profitable. Give people practical routes to learn, contribute, trade, belong, and shape their surroundings, and the spell that says “nothing can get better” has less room to take hold.
What the fantasy means
The political language above belongs to Civweave's fictional story-world. In plain English, Civweave is software for reducing social isolation and coordination friction. It helps people turn goals into structured plans, find nearby knowledge and resources, document work, exchange value, and participate in transparent community governance.
The villain is not a real person or party. The “darkness” is the mix of alienation, learned helplessness, scarcity, and broken trust that can make authoritarian promises feel like the only available source of order.
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Weaveling
Fate weaver · Civweave Commons
A cloud-connected species of intention guides. A Weaveling listens to a wish, helps clarify it, and opens portals into the tools most likely to move it forward.
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Moss
Learning guide · Living School
Moss grows a learning path around what you actually want to do, with practice, evidence, feedback, and skills that can cross into real work.
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Kamiya
Fox engineer · Cerbanimo
Kamiya turns intention into quests, plans, deliverables, and credit. She asks what must be built next, then helps make it real.
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Rook
Trade steward · FellowFare
Rook keeps exchange legible: needs, offers, goods, services, prices, gifts, and the practical question of how resources reach the right hands.
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Merlin
Wizard-droid · Anarchadia civic heart
Merlin helps communities propose, deliberate, validate, audit, and automate their own rules without turning a Steward into a king.
The realms
One intention, five places to move it.
Civweave is organized as a world rather than a pile of menus. Each realm owns a different kind of action, while your identity, intentions, evidence, and local network travel with you.
Learn · Practice · Grow
Living School
Learning that starts with a purpose. Living School builds paths around a goal, mixes explanation with practice, and records demonstrated competence instead of treating attendance as mastery.
Personal learning paths and local-first study tools
Practice, projects, quizzes, and evidence-backed progress
Skills can become qualifications for real Cerbanimo work
Plan · Build · Deliver
Cerbanimo
The work realm. Turn an idea into a quest, break it into accountable steps, invite collaborators, validate results, and share both rewards and credit without burying the work in coordination overhead.
Quests, workboards, proof of contribution, and validation
Paid service transactions with a modest platform fee
AI and human collaborators can share one documented workflow
Trade fairly · Give freely
FellowFare
The exchange realm for needs, offers, goods, services, gifts, and direct local trade. FellowFare makes generosity and practical commerce neighbors rather than enemies.
Browse needs and offerings across your reachable network
Support multiple payment or exchange methods where allowed
Keep local discovery useful when connectivity is intermittent
Propose · Deliberate · Audit
Anarchadia
The civic heart of the wider land of Anarchadia. Communities can draft proposals, gather evidence, run consensus processes, use randomly selected juries, and keep a visible ledger of how decisions were made.
Passports, proposals, tribunals, and transparent ledgers
Validated civic review can earn community rewards
Automation stays answerable to human governance
How value moves
Keep the lights on without owning the people inside.
Civweave separates community membership, compute funding, service commerce, and node stewardship so that one payment mechanism does not quietly become a power structure.
Memberships fund capacity
Current launch economics split monthly membership service value after payment processing. Members receive non-expiring compute credits, while the reserve helps fund AI capacity and community resilience.
50% system + compute reserve25% host operator25% Cerbanimo
Top-ups back actual compute
Compute top-ups are treated as a liability that must be backed until used. Most of the service value stays behind the promised compute.
Cerbanimo service transactions use a 5% facilitation fee. The current design splits that fee evenly between Cerbanimo and the host node Steward, while the worker keeps the rest before processor charges and any legally required taxes.
95% worker value before external charges2.5% host node Steward2.5% Cerbanimo
Free participation is architectural
Community seats are not the same thing as paid status. A node can carry free residents, paid residents, local compute, shared capacity, and offline participation as separate layers. Paid activity can expand what a community can sustainably offer without making payment the definition of citizenship.
Economy figures are versioned launch policy and may evolve. Payment processing, taxes, and jurisdiction-specific commerce rules are separate from the percentages shown here.
For host node Stewards
Run a hearth, not a throne.
A Steward operates a place where Civweave can live: a Cloudflare-backed hub, a local machine, or a hybrid node that keeps community data and services available across online and offline conditions.
What a Steward gets
Stewards can earn a defined share of membership value, compute top-ups, and qualifying service fees associated with their node. They also get tools to publish capacity, manage node identity, connect payouts, recover accounts, participate in backups, and keep their neighborhood of the network reachable.
Keep the hearth availableMaintain the node, monitor capacity, apply safe updates, and preserve a recovery path.Protect the ledgerPreserve integrity of identity, work evidence, balances, governance records, and signed receipts.Publish honest capacityAdvertise the seats, compute, services, and physical presence the node can actually support.Respect local-first privacyCollect only what the service needs and avoid turning infrastructure access into surveillance.Support due processMaintain the venue while Anarchadia provides proposals, juries, audits, and community governance.Settle money cleanlyConnect payout infrastructure, honor reversals and refunds, and keep compute promises backed.
For press and researchers
The plain-language version.
Civweave deliberately uses fantasy as interface and narrative, but the underlying project is concrete software. Here is the version to quote when you do not want to explain warlocks first.
What is Civweave?
Civweave is an open-source, local-first community operating system built as an installable web app. It combines AI-assisted intention planning, learning, project and labor coordination, local exchange, messaging, mapping, and participatory governance in one interoperable system. Communities connect through host nodes while retaining meaningful offline capability and local control.
The product is organized into four specialized realms plus a shared Commons. Living School handles learning, Cerbanimo handles work and collaboration, FellowFare handles exchange, Anarchadia handles governance, and Civweave Commons connects intentions, identity, chat, maps, and navigation across them.
The design goal is simple to state: make it easier for people to turn “I wish this were different” into a sequence of learnable, fundable, shareable, governable actions.
The loom is open.
The source is public because trust should have somewhere to look. Follow the build history, inspect the economics, run a node, or open Civweave and make one small piece of your world more possible.
