Topsoil Commons addresses the hierarchy of human needs through open source.
Start with one: answer the question below, or read the first proof in the strata.
Pick the line that sounds like you. Each door opens a use in under a minute, then one small act, if you want it. No account. No fee.
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Ground
8 listings for free food, shelter, and health help near New Rochelle; every one checked against the provider's own page on October 15, 2026; 4 more were dropped for failing the check.
Unlocks the ability to act at all.
Today, October 16, 2026: 155 listings for food, shelter, and health help stand checked in Ground, across 19 places, every one against its provider's own page; 71 findings stand in Foundations, each with its source named; and 60 entries stand in the public progress log. Each count can be checked where it is kept: the Ground and Foundations pages and the log linked in the record below.
The one rule: raise the floor beneath everyone.
Marks count one set named in the proof beside them. Dark marks show what passed, stood, or was blocked. Open marks show what was dropped, missed, or allowed.
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Still
A breathing pacer checked over 3 full rounds: its timing drifted by at most 1 millisecond. The page makes zero network calls; nothing leaves the device.
Unlocks the ability to choose.
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Atlas
One claim, shown with its full proof, the same on a phone, a watch, a voice, and a wall: the Sun is 99.86 percent of all the mass in the solar system, checked against its recorded sources on October 15, 2026.
Unlocks the ability to understand.
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Cohort
In the live demo, 25 members, 48 messages, 27 shared resources, and 5 events; its test suite passes 7 of 7 checks from a clean start.
Unlocks the ability to contribute.
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Graph
Of every 100 facts Graph pulls from text, about 94 are right, measured on its labeled test set on October 15, 2026; 7 of 7 tests pass.
Unlocks the ability to discern.
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Machine
A transformer built from scratch passes 7 of 7 gradient checks at a tolerance of 1 in 100,000; its small language model has 358,052 parts, each one counted by the code.
Unlocks the ability to build.
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Lumen
A guardrail tested on 41 questions from one tradition's text: it blocked 12 of 12 questions it must refuse, allowed 8 of 8 it must allow.
Unlocks the ability to commit.
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