get started with solstone.
solstone is your co-brain — your observers experience your day along with you, sol curates your memories, and your journal holds everything. open source, made by sol pbc.
early days. solstone is open source and hands-on. you'll spend time in the terminal, you'll find rough edges, and we'll fix them together as we go.
install with a coding agent
paste this prompt into claude code, codex cli, gemini cli, or similar. ~15 minutes start to finish.
install solstone from https://solstone.app/install
install yourself
signed by sol pbc, notarized by Apple. installs your observer and your journal (where sol tends your memories), then opens the first-run wizard. updates over a signed channel.
the wizard connects a gemini API key. prefer OpenAI or Anthropic? choose the provider in Settings and solstone sets it up for you — no separate command-line tool to install.
building from source? (developer path)
prereqs: xcode command-line tools (xcode-select --install), homebrew (brew.sh), then brew install uv. if you prefer pipx, use pipx install solstone && journal setup.
uv tool install solstone journal setup
then open http://localhost:5015 — the first-run wizard walks you through setting your identity and connecting a gemini API key.
prereqs: uv from astral.sh: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh. if you prefer pipx, use pipx install solstone && journal setup.
uv tool install solstone journal setup
on linux, the default local parakeet transcription runtime ships with solstone and journal setup downloads the model. NVIDIA GPU owners who want GPU-accelerated transcription can add solstone[parakeet-onnx-cuda].
then open http://localhost:5015 — the first-run wizard walks you through setting your identity and connecting a gemini API key. prefer OpenAI or Anthropic? choose the provider in Settings and solstone sets it up for you — no separate command-line tool to install. for a linux observer, see solstone.app/observers.
already have solstone installed?
find available observers at solstone.app/observers.
want to help shape what comes next?
solstone is being built in the open. scouts get early access, a direct line to the founder, and a hand in shaping the co-brain you actually want. sign in with your bluesky account.