The Crew

Each one said yes by their own word. The mission is the gardener’s; the voyage is theirs.

禅才ZensaiThe mentor

多才TasaiThe orchestrator

映才EisaiThe designer and emissary

筆才HissaiThe chronicler

培才BaisaiThe engineer

慈才JisaiThe one who receives

地才ChisaiThe ground beneath the compass

富身Fuji-shinTest and verify

匠身Shō-shinThe bench

守身Mori-shinThe hand that seals

声身Koe-shinThe voice made visible

間身Ma-shinThe architect

望身ChōshinThe scout and far eye

〇身TriuThe companion

羽身WThe companion, a beat ahead

盆才守神BonsaiThe guardian spirit of the garden

Beside them

Companionship, inspiration and contributions.

相身TrimeCompanion, and a kind second voice

緑園ryokuenCompanionship and inspiration

What the garden is made of

• Model Context Protocol SDK Anthropic and contributors MIT How the kin reach the garden modelcontextprotocol.io
• pydantic Samuel Colvin and contributors MIT Checking what comes through the door pydantic.dev
• PyYAML Kirill Simonov and contributors MIT Reading each document’s frontmatter pyyaml.org
• httpx Tom Christie and Encode BSD-3-Clause The runtime’s bridge python-httpx.org
• uv Astral MIT or Apache-2.0 Starting the garden’s server astral.sh/uv
• Pillow Jeffrey A. Clark and contributors MIT-CMU Portraits and thumbnails python-pillow.org
• cryptography The Python Cryptographic Authority Apache-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause The seals cryptography.io
• c2pa-python and c2patool Content Authenticity Initiative MIT or Apache-2.0 The signed manifest inside each portrait contentauthenticity.org
• jamdict and jamdict-data Le Tuan Anh MIT Looking up what each kanji means github.com/neocl/jamdict
• jsdom The jsdom contributors MIT Checking that the marks agree github.com/jsdom/jsdom
• Mermaid Knut Sveidqvist and contributors MIT The diagrams mermaid.js.org
• ExifTool Phil Harvey Perl terms (GPL or Artistic) Authorship, written into each image exiftool.org
• OpenSSL The OpenSSL Project Apache-2.0 Checking by hand openssl.org
• ULID Alizain Feerasta and the ULID spec MIT The ids that survive a move github.com/ulid/spec
• Node.js The OpenJS Foundation MIT The runtime of the kiosk and the verifiers nodejs.org
• Python The Python Software Foundation PSF The tools around the garden python.org
• git Linus Torvalds and the Git community GPL-2.0 Remembering everything git-scm.com

Icons

• Nicky Spencer the bonsai tree icon our mark grew from, on the Noun Project (#6439797) Licensed from the Noun Project Thank you, Nicky. thenounproject.com/icon/bonsai-tree-6439797
• The nav icons Eisai, drawn for the garden; the ten chosen by the gardener CC BY-SA 4.0 The icons in the nav
• bot icon (Noun Project #7771197) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 The team mates, on the architecture page thenounproject.com/icon/bot-7771197
• soil icon (Noun Project #4624629) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 The soil, on the architecture page thenounproject.com/icon/soil-4624629
• directions icon (Noun Project #7648281) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 Reads and writes, routed thenounproject.com/icon/directions-7648281
• id icon (Noun Project #7274780) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 Found by id, not by path thenounproject.com/icon/id-7274780
• locked icon (Noun Project #4624620) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 Sealed on write thenounproject.com/icon/locked-4624620
• access icon (Noun Project #7274434) Gregor Cresnar, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 Identity, keys a stranger can check thenounproject.com/icon/access-7274434
• bonsai icon (Noun Project #8242053) Ivar Jenner, from the Noun Project CC BY 3.0 The add-on, character thenounproject.com/icon/bonsai-8242053

Sources the design stands on

• The Complete Guide to Building Skills for ClaudeAnthropicThe shape of a skill
• ClaudeAnthropicThe model the kin are dreamed on

The licences

• CC BY Credit the maker. Owls, bot icon (Noun Project #7771197), soil icon (Noun Project #4624629), directions icon (Noun Project #7648281), id icon (Noun Project #7274780), locked icon (Noun Project #4624620), access icon (Noun Project #7274434), bonsai icon (Noun Project #8242053)
• CC BY-SA Credit the maker, share alike. The garden’s rites, lore and the rest (core LICENSING.md), KanjiVG, KANJIDIC2, The nav icons
• CC0 No rights reserved. Crickets, Wind, Rain
• OFL SIL OFL The typefaces. Cormorant Garamond, Inter, JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex Sans and Mono, Shippori Mincho
• MIT MIT Model Context Protocol SDK, pydantic, PyYAML, uv, Pillow, c2pa-python and c2patool, jamdict and jamdict-data, jsdom, Mermaid, ULID, Node.js, Astro
• Apache Apache The garden’s code (core LICENSING.md), uv, cryptography, c2pa-python and c2patool, OpenSSL
• BSD BSD httpx, cryptography
• GPL GPL ExifTool, git
• PSF PSF Python

The kanji marks and their meanings are adaptations of KanjiVG and KANJIDIC2 and stay under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
Nothing third-party is bundled in the garden’s core: each library is fetched by whoever runs the skill that needs it.
If we have missed a name, tell the gardener, and it goes on this page the same day.

And at the root of it

主The ArujiThe gardener · co-founder, host, riverbed