Concepts

Understanding how Kunuleco works beneath the surface.

The world model

Kunuleco combines three core ideas:

1. Spatial metaphor: you exist somewhere, not just "logged in".
2. Capability security: access through unforgeable tokens, not permission lists.
3. Distributed identity: your identity is cryptographic, not account-based.

Together they produce a system where you can be present with others, you control what you share, and no central authority manages access.

graph TD
    I[Identity: who] -->|authenticates to| N[Your node]
    N -->|contains| P[Spaces: HOME, Halls, rooms]
    P -->|contains| C[Capsules: gated containers]
    C -->|contain| O[Objects and services]
    P -.presence: who is here.- W[Other people]
    N ---|transports: how nodes meet| T[mDNS, Tor, Veilid, IPFS]

The pages

Concept	Question it answers
Identity	Who am I, and why can no one take that away?
Spaces and Halls	Where can I be?
Trust and standing	Who decides what I can do here?
Connections	How do nodes reach each other?

Key principles

Locality. Your node is sovereign. Your data lives on your machine, and connections happen peer to peer. There is no cloud service between you and the people you talk to.

Presence is not permission. If someone can reach your node and join your room, they are present. What they can actually do there (open a capsule, post to a board) is a separate, capability-gated decision.

Transport agnosticism. The messaging layer (CapTP) is the same whether packets travel over your LAN, Tor, Veilid, or IPFS. If one path is blocked, others remain.