Card → cell
State with an identity
A card is a rendering of committed state and its installed law, not an application-owned rectangle.
Worlds DEOS
The live image
The card is not a box. It is a cell seen through glass.
DEOS is the user-facing form of the distributed object-capability system: a malleable world whose objects describe their state, actions, authority, and proof history.
Its desktop and renderers run in-tree. This page does not imply a generally hosted public desktop.
01
One object, four readings
Interface elements have protocol meanings.
Button → affordance
A proposed turn
An affordance names the authority and transition it intends to exercise. The world accepts or refuses the actual turn.
Window → glass
One view among many
The common view tree renders to web, Discord, Telegram, WeChat, terminal, and native surfaces without making any one of them canonical.
Inspector → receipt
The reason remains attached
History, provenance, capabilities, and proof identities are inspectable parts of the object rather than logs held somewhere else.
02
What runs
A desktop made of verified world operations.
tested
World affordances
An authorized affordance commits a real verified turn; an unauthorized actor is refused.
tested
Replay and time travel
World histories can be replayed and forked with root and chain checks; tampered histories refuse.
tested
Confined branch stitching
A branch cannot debit main-world cells, and settlement rechecks any authority carried back into the official graph.
implemented
Documents and web cells
Collaborative documents, content-addressed web bundles, attenuated rehydration, editors, and graph inspectors share the world substrate.
03
Where it stops
Livable is a stronger claim than implemented.
The repository contains the desktop, common render tree, native organs, document system, web cells, replay, and branch machinery. They do not yet form one polished public service a new person can inhabit without development setup.
Present boundary: a working systems architecture and several real surfaces; not a finished consumer operating environment.