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whoisd

v0.2.1

Published

whois — model your orgs (humans + AI agents) in Markdown, served by a local daemon. This wrapper downloads the signed-checksum release binaries on first run; nothing executes at install time.

Readme

whoisd

Model your orgs — humans and AI agents — in plain Markdown, served by a local daemon every agent on your machine can query. This package is the installer/launcher for the whois binaries.

npx whoisd init        # scaffold ~/.whois + your personal org (runs `wi init`)
npx whoisd query "who knows go?"
npx whoisd daemon -config-dir ~/.whois -addr 127.0.0.1:7400 -token-file ~/.whois/token

Any verb other than daemon / mcp / telegram is passed through to the wi CLI.

Security posture

Designed against the 2026 npm supply-chain campaigns (Miasma, Shai-Hulud — see the decision record):

  • Nothing executes at install. No preinstall/postinstall/ preparenpm install --ignore-scripts changes nothing. The platform binary downloads on your first explicit invocation, and the command prints exactly what it fetches.
  • Zero dependencies. Node stdlib only.
  • Pinned, verified binaries. The download targets the exact release tag matching this package's version on github.com/barneyfoxuk/whois (https only; redirects restricted to GitHub's asset hosts) and is verified against a SHA-256 embedded in this package at publish time — npm's package immutability freezes it, so the binary a version delivers can never change after publish. A mismatch refuses to install.
  • Published via OIDC trusted publishing with provenance, from a workflow that runs only on protected version tags.

Binaries land in ~/.whois/bin/<version>/. Building from source is always an option: go build ./... in the repo.