Atlas is a decentralized discovery layer for Freenet: a way to describe, index, search, recommend, review, and discover Freenet content and applications without relying on a centralized search engine or recommendation service.

Rather than imposing a single canonical index or ranking, Atlas provides a framework for publishing signed metadata and building many competing, pluralistic discovery systems on top of it. Users stay in control of which analyzers, indexes, curators, and ranking policies they trust.

A first version is live on Freenet. With a Freenet node running locally, open Atlas at:

http://127.0.0.1:7509/v1/contract/web/771DvtPMwt2PumPyrFvsz7fpvU1gogcmb5qtS1yYEEH9/

The Atlas browsing experience: open it, search, and open what you find, with no setup or learning curve. The screenshot below is the live UI. Its entries are gathered automatically by a crawler that describes each resource with an LLM.

Atlas is early and evolving. The first version, a fast, populated, read-only front door to Freenet, is live. The broader design (open descriptors and reviews, publisher self-submission, and multiple competing indexes) is still taking shape, so goals, architecture, schemas, and naming may still change.

See PROPOSAL.md for the full RFC.