FamloreOpen · you'll need whoever you already talk to
The assignment comes through. Where you solve it is up to you.
Famlore gives whoever you already talk to the record of the subject you are furthest into, and one specific thing to hand you. Worth an afternoon. How you go about it is up to you. When somebody else turns up this far into the same subject, there is a room for it.
We'll send a link. Then one setup step: connect whoever you already talk to.
How you play
An assignment turns up — one specific thing, scoped to an afternoon. How you go at it is not specified. Ask them. Point a tool at it. Read the actual thing. Go to the library. Write to somebody who would know. Go outside and look.
Then bring back what you found. That is the loop. Nothing here keeps you in the chat window — the assignment arrives there and is meant to send you somewhere else.
How it works
- 01
Connect whoever you already talk to.
In claude.ai, Claude Desktop or Cowork, add Famlore from Claude’s plugin directory, then approve the connection in your browser — no key, no new app to open. It brings the curator’s way of working along with a set of tools they did not have before. In Claude Code the same plugin installs from the command line, and any other client can be given one address by hand.
- 02
Say what you cannot stop thinking about.
In your own words, in the middle of an ordinary conversation. It gets written down the way you said it. Never “history” or “music” — decommissioned MTA stations, field recordings of vanishing dialects, the specific thing.
- 03
Get a field assignment.
Not a summary and not a reading list. A concrete task with an objective, a few steps, and a plain statement of what counts as evidence. Something you can actually finish, and come back with.
See one assignment, start to finishSetup steps for each client
Rooms
Alone, or not.
A room is as narrow as the subject — not history, decommissioned MTA stations. An assignment goes to everyone in it, and each person runs it their own way; what you come back with is yours until you say otherwise. There are not many rooms yet, and nearly all of them are empty. Yours is probably not here. Make it.
For instance · not the directory
- ROOM·001
Transit archaeology
Closed stations, abandoned alignments, and the paperwork that outlived them.
- ROOM·002
Vanishing dialects
Field recordings, last speakers, and the arguments about what counts as a language.
- ROOM·003
Modular synthesis
Patch cables you can trace end to end, and what a plugin quietly does for you instead.
- ROOM·004
Physarum networks
Whether the maze-solving result actually replicates, and what the slime is really optimising.
- ROOM·005
Typeface revivals
Punchcutting, and which curves a digitisation quietly lost on the way.
- ROOM·006
Speedrun routing
Frame-perfect skips, and the long argument about what counts as a run.
- ROOM·007
Sourdough starter genealogy
Why the same flour behaves differently in two kitchens, and whose starter yours came from.
- ROOM·008
Brutalist car parks
The ones scheduled for demolition, and who gets there with a camera first.
Those eight show the grain a room is cut to, not what is open today. Rooms grow out of what people actually bring, not from a blank page.
Before you ask
- Do I need a particular AI?
- No, and that is on purpose — Famlore is not branded to one AI company and is meant to live inside whoever you already talk to — ChatGPT, Claude, whichever. It does need one connected: the assignments are written by them, not by us, and there is no version of this that works with the website alone.
- Is this a social network?
- There is a social layer, but no feed, no follower counts, no ranking, and nobody to browse. You are never matched with anyone and never recommended a person. The most that happens is that you and someone else are in the same room, working the same assignment, and can choose to show each other what you found. The object is the curiosity; the person shows up second, or not at all.
- What if I try it and it turns out to be nothing?
- Delete the account. There is no cancellation flow, no retention email, and nobody will try to talk you out of it — the button is in Settings and it takes effect at once.
What is visible, and when
Nothing about you reaches another person without an affirmative act by you: joining a room, marking one piece of evidence shared with the others on that same assignment, or marking one public. Three separate acts, none of them a default, and even the widest is one submission at a time.
- Private
Everything you tell your companion.
The default, and where the overwhelming majority of it stays. Your curiosities, your assignments, and what you brought back are yours.
- Room
Your handle and one line you wrote.
Visible to the people in a room you chose to join, and nothing beyond it — not your curiosities, not your quest history, not your evidence. Leave, and the entry goes with you.
- Shared
One piece of evidence, to the people on the same assignment.
Opt-in, per submission, and never the default. Running the same assignment as someone exposes nothing by itself.
- Deleted
One click, and it is gone.
Immediately, with nothing to cancel. The one exception, stated plainly: something another person is actively building on survives with your name cut out of it rather than leaving a hole in their record.
Bring the thing you never get to talk about.
Tell us where to reach you and we'll send a link right away. Click it, pick a handle, and connect — that's it, and they start keeping the record.
We'll send a link. Then one setup step: connect whoever you already talk to.