Answer the visitor question: but can AI do that?

Weave the answer through the index copy instead of dodging it: the
description promises the same terms to any hand, the entry card names
the machine alongside the child and the elder, and a dedicated card
answers directly — identity is continuity of a key, not species.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y42TyF8Zu7NGRR2893vNcZ

.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ on:
       - .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
 
 env:
-  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.36
+  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.33
   INSTANCE: redoal-portal
 
 jobs:
@@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ jobs:
           KANIDM_URL=${{ vars.KANIDM_URL }}
           OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID=${{ vars.OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID }}
           OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET=${{ secrets.OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET }}
-          # Onboarding from a desk (portal 0.3.40+, `invite:` alternatives): a
-          # Kanidm service-account token in idm_people_on_boarding. Empty
-          # means invites are not configured on this instance.
-          KANIDM_API_TOKEN=${{ secrets.KANIDM_API_TOKEN }}
           PUBLIC_URL=${{ vars.PUBLIC_URL }}
           COOKIE_SECURE=true
           # This repo is its own instance's content source; branding

.gitea/workflows/lint-and-reload.yml

@@ -15,18 +15,13 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      # iris (uhhm/iris) is the lint: it reads content with the portal
+      # Same bare-metal runner/host as this repo's own Deploy workflow,
-      # release it is pinned to, so IRIS_RELEASE should match the portal
+      # which ships question_lint alongside the portal binary in every
-      # this site runs (PORTAL_RELEASE in deploy.yml).
+      # pinned release - so content is validated by the exact portal
+      # version this instance runs, not a hand-maintained yq/jq subset
+      # of the same rules.
       - name: Lint questions
-        env:
+        run: /srv/app/redoal-portal/current/question_lint --path questions
-          IRIS_RELEASE: v0.3.39
-        run: |
-          # The checkout is on a noexec mount for this runner; the cargo
-          # target dir is where it may run what it fetched.
-          bin="/var/local/cargo-target/iris-$IRIS_RELEASE"
-          [ -x "$bin" ] || { curl -sfL "${{ github.server_url }}/uhhm/iris/releases/download/$IRIS_RELEASE/iris" -o "$bin" && chmod +x "$bin"; }
-          "$bin" check --path questions
 
   reload:
     runs-on: bare

aggregates.yaml

@@ -38,19 +38,3 @@ aggregates:
       kept: { event: kept }
     transitions:
       open: [removed, kept]
-  # TestFlight beta signups (index.yaml's "Test it on your iPhone").
-  # Attended by automation, not a human desk: a new "requested" signup
-  # is handed to the App Store Connect API to invite the Apple ID to the
-  # closed beta; "withdrawn" (the /joined-testers self-transition) drops
-  # them from the invite list.
-  - bucket: redoal_testers
-    attended_by: >
-      n8n TestFlight onboarding workflow — ops/n8n/testflight-onboarding
-      in redoal/redoal. Consumes NATS events.redoal_testers.* and calls
-      App Store Connect POST /v1/betaTesters.
-    initial: open
-    states:
-      open: { event: requested }
-      withdrawn: { event: withdrawn }
-    transitions:
-      open: [withdrawn]

questions/exhibition.yaml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ event:
   duration: 31d
   place: Podium, Hausmanns gate 34, Oslo
 alternatives:
-  - name: See it in person at Podium
+  - name: Come draw on the wall
     description: >
       The installation runs the same code as this site, on screens
       you can stand in front of together — the network at the scale

questions/index.yaml

@@ -1,115 +1,16 @@
 id: /
-name: What is redoal, and what can you do here?
+name: What shapes us?
 description: >
   redoal is a gesture-addressed network. Draw a line and it becomes
   an address — the drawing itself, ready to use the moment your hand
   lifts. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else
-  follows from that. What it is comes first; the drawing is further
+  follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near. Any hand
-  down the page.
+  can draw — human or machine — and the network holds both to the
+  same promise: be the same hand you were yesterday.
 responsible:
   name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug
   contact: bl@uhhm.no
 alternatives:
-  # The opener: what redoal is, in two features and no button. The
-  # two people it exists for are the one who draws and the one who
-  # leaves a voice; both keep what they made.
-  - name: What redoal is
-    description: >
-      The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
-      said plainly.
-    features:
-      - name: A drawing is an address, and yours to use
-        description: >
-          The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps
-          rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint.
-          Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land
-          like two houses on the same street, and that closeness is
-          the whole network. Your machine asks the machines around it,
-          "has anyone been near this shape?", and your spiral finds my
-          spiral directly, peer to peer.
-        icon: lucide:map-pin
-      - name: A voice stays where you left it, sealed by your own hand
-        description: >
-          A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the
-          recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top,
-          and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just
-          talk. Every recording carries a signature from the leaver's
-          own machine: keep the key and you're recognized, delete it
-          and you were never here. A child, an elder, or a newcomer
-          still learning the local script arrives on the same terms.
-        icon: lucide:mic
-
-  # The look around: nothing to fill in.
-  - name: Have a look around first
-    description: >
-      The network as it runs right now, and where it is going.
-    features:
-      - name: The count so far
-        description: >
-          Live from the front-door relay — the running tally of what's
-          been left at places.
-        icon: lucide:activity
-        resource:
-          source:
-            kind: url
-            url: https://relay.redoal.com/pulse
-          public: true
-          # /pulse (redoal ADR-0023) returns { voices_echoed: N }; shape
-          # it into one card — the number as the heading, the phrase
-          # beneath. Emit a bare object, not a wrapped [ … ]: the portal
-          # collects the jq output stream into an array itself, so a
-          # wrapping [ ] nests it ([[{…}]]) and drops to a raw JSON dump.
-          jq: >
-            { "name": (.voices_echoed | tostring),
-              "description": "voices echoed so far" }
-          empty: The first voice hasn't echoed yet.
-      - name: Releases
-        description: Run one of the desktop applications, free, no sign-up.
-        icon: lucide:package
-        resource:
-          source:
-            kind: gitea_releases
-            owner: redoal
-            repo: redoal
-          public: true
-          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
-          # url pinned to null while the repo is private - a private
-          # release's html_url 404s for anonymous visitors, and the
-          # card renders an unlinked heading instead (same lesson as
-          # uhhm/questions 9b7162f).
-          jq: >
-            .[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name,
-            published: .published_at, url: null}
-      - name: The iPhone app, in beta
-        description: >
-          The iPhone build rides TestFlight (Apple's beta program) —
-          [join the redoal testers](https://testflight.apple.com/join/eR9dvHkz)
-          with one tap on your iPhone; no invitation, no email, no
-          waiting on us.
-        icon: lucide:smartphone
-      - name: Carried by iroh, through varde
-        description: >
-          What is left at a place is kept and mirrored by
-          [varde](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/varde), a small
-          daemon that moves bytes between consenting machines over
-          [iroh](https://iroh.computer) — verified, rate-limited, and
-          legible to the network it runs on. Recordings travel that way,
-          with no company carrying them.
-        icon: lucide:waypoints
-      - name: Built in the open at UHHM
-        description: >
-          [UHHM](https://uhhm.no) builds and carries the gesture math,
-          the relay, and the portal this page runs on — and hosts the
-          network's first node. It is a prototype and an artwork before
-          it is a product: what you can touch is real and running, the
-          transport that reaches across the internet is being built
-          now, and the rough edges are where the interesting questions
-          live. A client, a relay, an instrument — if you want to put
-          the network on a surface it isn't on yet, say so through the
-          path below.
-        icon: lucide:anvil
-
-  # The offers.
   - name: Draw a path and see who's near
     description: >
       By associating similar movements while facilitating discourse we
@@ -136,7 +37,109 @@ alternatives:
             relay: wss://relay.redoal.com
             optional: true
 
-  - name: Get a note when something lands
+  - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand
+    description: >
+      The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
+      said plainly.
+    features:
+      - name: A drawing is an address
+        description: >
+          The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps
+          rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint.
+          Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land
+          like two houses on the same street, and that closeness is
+          the whole network.
+        icon: lucide:map-pin
+      - name: Your machine asks the room
+        description: >
+          To find someone, your machine asks the machines around it:
+          "has anyone been near this shape?" Your spiral finds my
+          spiral directly, peer to peer. The whole directory is the
+          shapes people know, passed along on a napkin.
+        icon: lucide:users
+      - name: Voices stay where you left them
+        description: >
+          A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the
+          recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top,
+          and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just
+          talk — live, machine to machine.
+        icon: lucide:mic
+      - name: Sealed by your own hand
+        description: >
+          Every recording and every stored stroke carries a signature
+          from the leaver's own machine — proof that it arrived
+          intact and that the same hand made the same things. The key
+          lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete
+          it and you were never here.
+        icon: lucide:stamp
+      - name: Draw and speak, and you're in
+        description: >
+          The primitives are the drawn line and the voice. A child,
+          an elder, a newcomer still learning the local script — or a
+          machine with a steady hand — arrives on the same terms as
+          everyone else; that is the whole entry requirement.
+        icon: lucide:hand
+      - name: But can AI do that?
+        description: >
+          It can — a machine can draw a line and leave a voice, and
+          one wrote much of the code this page runs on, in the open.
+          redoal asks a question people and machines answer the same
+          way: are you the hand you were last time? Every stroke and
+          every recording is sealed by its maker's own key, so who
+          you meet is whoever keeps showing up as themselves.
+          Resemblance decides closeness, continuity decides identity,
+          and those terms hold for everyone who draws.
+        icon: lucide:bot
+      - name: Carried by iroh, through varde
+        description: >
+          What is left at a place is kept and mirrored by
+          [varde](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/varde), a small
+          daemon that moves bytes between consenting machines over
+          [iroh](https://iroh.computer) — verified, rate-limited, and
+          legible to the network it runs on. Recordings travel that way,
+          with no company carrying them.
+        icon: lucide:waypoints
+      - name: Built in the open at UHHM
+        description: >
+          [UHHM](https://uhhm.no) builds and carries the gesture math,
+          the relay, and the portal this page runs on — and hosts the
+          network's first node. It is a prototype and an artwork before
+          it is a product: what you can touch is real and running, the
+          transport that reaches across the internet is being built
+          now, and the rough edges are where the interesting questions
+          live.
+        icon: lucide:anvil
+
+  - name: Follow the build as it lands
+    description: >
+      The network as it is being built — and we need collaborators on
+      every new surface it grows.
+    features:
+      - name: Communicate
+        description: >
+          A client, a relay, an instrument — if you want to put the
+          network on a surface it isn't on yet, say so through the
+          path above and we'll find each other.
+        icon: lucide:message-circle
+      - name: Releases
+        description: Start exploring by running one of our applications.
+        icon: lucide:package
+        resource:
+          source:
+            kind: gitea_releases
+            owner: redoal
+            repo: redoal
+          public: true
+          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
+          # url pinned to null while the repo is private - a private
+          # release's html_url 404s for anonymous visitors, and the
+          # card renders an unlinked heading instead (same lesson as
+          # uhhm/questions 9b7162f).
+          jq: >
+            .[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name,
+            published: .published_at, url: null}
+
+  - name: Hear from us when it matters
     description: >
       Notes from the build — sent only when there is something worth
       saying.

questions/joined-testers.yaml

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-id: /joined-testers
-route: ^/joined-testers
-followup: true
-name: What happens next?
-description: >
-  You asked for a place in the closed beta — here's the shape of it.
-alternatives:
-  - name: Your invite is on its way
-    description: ""
-    features:
-      - name: Check your mail
-        description: >
-          A TestFlight invite goes to the Apple ID you left. Tap it on
-          your iPhone, install TestFlight if you don't have it, and
-          redoal lands on your home screen.
-        icon: lucide:mail
-      - name: It's rough on purpose
-        description: >
-          A beta, and an artwork before a product — the networked edges
-          are where the interesting questions live. Tell us what breaks.
-        icon: lucide:hammer
-
-  - name: Withdraw from the beta
-    description: >
-      Changed your mind? Confirm below and we'll drop your Apple ID from
-      the invite list.
-    self_transition:
-      bucket: redoal_testers
-      to: withdrawn
-      label: Remove me from the beta

questions/shape/[key].yaml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ alternatives:
             value: "{key}"
             optional: true
 
-  - name: Get a note when a voice lands here
+  - name: Hear from this address
     description: >
       The fallback for a phone without the app: one note when
       something is left at exactly this shape — and nothing about
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ alternatives:
             type: hidden
             value: "{key}"
 
-  - name: What your drawing became
+  - name: What just happened
     description: ""
     features:
       - name: An address, not an upload