Community Registry

The human was
here first.

A community-governed registry for AI tools built by humans who saw something the machines couldn't see alone. Provenance tracking. Attribution as currency. No gatekeepers.

Read the story How it works
The Origin

Kasparov's invention

In 1997, Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue. His response wasn't to stop playing chess. It was to invent a new kind — advanced chess, where human and machine play together.

The team that won wasn't the best human or the best machine. It was the best partnership.

We call that a centaur.

This is a registry for centaurs. Tools built by humans who saw something the machines couldn't see alone.

When a platform ships something that looks like your tool a week after you published it, there should be a record. When someone builds the bridge before the road exists, the community should know.

Governed by builders. Not by platforms.

The Registry

Attribution as infrastructure. Not as afterthought.

Provenance

Every tool carries its lineage. Forks link to parents. Overlapping problem spaces surface automatically. The record is permanent.

Proximity

Submit a tool, meet your neighbors. Semantic matching on problem statements surfaces adjacent builders — not as warnings, as introductions.

Community Governed

No gatekeepers. No editor's picks. No leaderboards. Usefulness votes from builders who used the tool. A rotating council for moderation. No single point of control.

The One Rule

MIT license. Full stop. No exceptions. Everything on centaur.tools is forkable, stealable, buildable-upon.

The only social contract is: cite your parents.

Prior Art

When a platform ships a feature that an existing tool anticipated, the community can flag it. A threshold of votes confirms the record. The Prior Art designation is permanent — regardless of whether the original tool stays active.

The centaur was here first.

Submissions

What a centaur looks like.

kindex

Persistent knowledge graph for AI coding assistants

registered
Problem Statement

AI coding assistants lose all context between sessions. Every conversation starts from zero. There's no persistent memory of what was learned, decided, or discovered.

knowledge-graph memory mcp context ai-tools
MIT · Python · 42 useful votes
Prior Art

example submission — not final design

Status

Launching soon.

The registry is being built. The submission form, proximity engine, and voting mechanism are in development. The governance charter is being drafted.

Watch github.com/jmcentire for updates