Custody of story has always been contested. Today it is increasingly uncheckable, inaccessible, or corrupted.
Habitat addresses this.
Habitat is a project of Habitat Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3)/509(a)(2) public charity. EIN 42-2210447.
We build accurate, transparent and useful apps on Habitat that walk the talk.
And, you can build or integrate text and quantitative data custody instruments and flows into your domain. Habitat Foundation will help.
This data reading is an actual example of what you get when you take the keys. We provide a published number, the data underneath it, and the means to check both, in your browser.
habitat published one number for this dataset: a SHA-256 fingerprint of its covariance geometry — the structure underneath the data, not the file. Recompute derives that number in your browser from the bytes this page serves. Reshuffle reorders every row: the geometry holds, because order carries no structure. Change one value and the number moves.
All interactions in this panel are completed in your browser · nothing leaves tab.
Nine public reference corpora, held here with their provenance pinned and their geometry published. Every one recomputes in your browser. Each is a dataset a professional in that field already knows, which is the point: you can hold our geometry against work you have already done, or already argued about.
We do not describe. Two records, one instrument. Hover a line to scrub it; the page holds the whole record and its report.
This is one view of a polychromatic corpus. We reproduced this from bytes of data. Not a forecast or meaning.
This depiction simply states “signal,” or what is distinguishable from noise. These are states that reflect acts across the corpus. The lenses are yours; the whole record, its report, and the numbers are on the Bench.
Two questions face anyone who has to account for accumulated work, whether a person made it or a process did. Which parts of a record actually carry its shape. And what actually changed the thing doing the work. Both are normally answered by reading, which puts the content in someone's hands and produces an answer nobody can repeat or check.
One instrument answers both, from the shape alone. Nobody has to read the content to get the answer, and no word of it appears in what we publish. Every answer is checked against what chance alone would produce, and the ones that fail are published too.
Both, with the declarations, the raw output and the predictions that failed →
Here we demonstrate custody retention in agent-work, civic records, historical research, investigative journalism, local climate impact, financial analysis. And, you can literally take the keys.
Five acts, one hour. Every act comes back with a signed receipt. A field of your own takes more: a key that lasts is a conversation: hello@habitat.ooo.
Your first act. Copy this into a terminal:
Or hand the key to your agent, as MCP configuration:
The first key writes into a field that is yours. This one checks ours. You recompute the number we published, on your own machine, and see for yourself whether it matches.
Start at the ledger, where every published fingerprint is listed. Or at a case: take-out, point-in-time, material contribution.
Data in habitat was built from the first line to be observant, append only, and un-erasable.
We think you’ll see how much custody matters.
In your world, live now.
Also in the field: education, and play (LIFE).
The bench underneath, published: method · the sweep · controls · noise provenance · every correction.
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