About Samaritan

Samaritan is a place for knowledge, tools, and practices that people can carry into their own homes and communities. The aim is not to gather users around a platform. It is to help more people act under their own authority and teach what they learn.

The Compendium is the library

The local practices and browser-local tools make up the Samaritan Compendium. The Compendium is part of Samaritan, not the whole of it. A library becomes a commons only when people take material out, test it in their own conditions, and return corrections or better versions.

Two doors

Take it yourself. Read, save, print, adapt, teach, or run what is useful. No account or relationship with Casey is required. Licensing differs between works, so check the license attached to a project before copying its code.

Bring Casey when useful. Some situations need diagnosis, implementation, or an experienced person beside the work. Casey's history, current work, and ways to engage him live at caseytunturi.com. This site keeps that door visible without turning the library into a sales funnel.

Where it came from

Samaritan began with material Casey Tunturi built and gathered across a life in infrastructure, security, self-hosting, agent systems, and practical craft. His personal chronology belongs on his site. Souveraine's architectural claims belong at souveraineai.com. Samaritan holds the parts meant to leave their author and become useful in other hands.

Where it should go

The end state is not a larger audience orbiting Casey. It is a culture capable of continuing without him at the centre: neighbors who know how to reach one another, guides corrected by the places that use them, tools that can be carried away, and small local systems whose authority stays with the people they affect.

Start where you live, or read how to contribute evidence and corrections.