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.
paste this prompt into claude code, codex cli, gemini cli, or similar. ~15 minutes start to finish.
install solstone from https://solstone.app/install
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.
prereqs: xcode command-line tools (xcode-select --install), homebrew (brew.sh), then brew install uv. if you prefer pipx, use pipx install solstone && sol setup.
uv tool install solstone sol 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 && sol setup.
uv tool install solstone sol setup
on linux, local parakeet transcription needs solstone[parakeet-onnx-cpu] (or [parakeet-onnx-cuda] for NVIDIA GPUs); install or upgrade the same way as other extras.
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.
find available observers at solstone.app/observers.
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.