growing · updated 2025-10-18 22:00:00

Scriptorium Architecture

Three-tier personal infrastructure for developing, deploying, and publishing intellectual tools.

The Domains

labs-lab.com - Public identity and entrance
scriptorium.online - Reusable toolkit platform

Key Insight

scriptorium.online inverts the typical “deploy my app” model. Instead of standalone applications, it provides composable services that any project can consume.

Not: “Here’s MY market app you can use”

But: “Here’s a MARKET SERVICE any project can consume”

Services as Toolkit

Current projects becoming services:

Metatopic v3 - Semantic indexing as a service
Prediction Markets Measure Information - Market infrastructure and widgets
Wiki generators (planned)
Text processing pipelines (planned)

Control Plane

~/system/ evolves from server management to orchestration:

Deployment pipeline: ~/proj → local → Tailscale → scriptorium
Service registry (what’s deployed where)
Access tier promotion
Health monitoring across all services
Container coordination via Podman

Progressive Deployment

Local Dev → Working in ~/proj
Tailscale Internal → Private team access (Authentik OIDC)
Public (scriptorium.online) → Published tool APIs
Public (labs-lab.com) → Documentation layer

Philosophy

Reusability - Build tools once, use in many projects
Service-oriented - Everything exposed as APIs/MCPs
Constraint-driven - Embrace limitations
Type-safe infrastructure - PostgreSQL constraints, Pydantic schemas
Emergent organization - Let structure emerge from use