Hello everyone,
Rupert here from Unternet. You may have seen my talk at Future of Coding London, or Causal Islands Berlin – Introducing Web Applets. Web Applets is an open SDK for creating interoperable actions & views for agents, aiming to build a web of capabilities.
Thanks for joining the Unternet community. For now, this is a mailing list to make things easy, but we’ll probably get a Discord going within the next few weeks. This is a place where we can discuss the spec & how the SDK should work, troubleshoot issues, send links to applets we’ve built, and set the direction for future development to benefit everyone.
(Lightning poll – do you prefer a mailing list, Discord, web forum, or some other new-fangled way of being involved?)
I’ve been writing an early client for using web applets with a language model, and as I’ve been integrating them I’ve found plenty of things to improve, some of which are already implemented. For example, you can now get started without cloning a repo – just install the CLI, and run npx applets init && npx applets create <my-applet-name> to create your first applet. Then, npx applets playground to see it in action.
(Oh, and if you’ve forgotten where the repo lives, it’s right
here.)
The future of human-computer interaction is increasingly looking like machine learning/AI using software alongside the user, allowing people to be more empowered, work faster, and interact more naturally with their computers. This has been a vision technologists have been pursuing since
Apple’s Knowledge Navigator and Ada Lovelace’s writing about intelligence machines. It’s vital that this next phase is not one in which the biggest players get to dictate the rules and own the platform, but rather an
open one in which anyone can participate and build.
We’ve done it before with the web, and we can do it again.
Thanks for being part of the journey. Play with the tools, create some applets, and send an email to this list to tell me what you think can be improved.
Rupert