Three paths to claim your profile
The substrate offers three ways to take editorial control of your page, ranging from light-touch to full self-serve. Pick whichever fits your relationship with the technology.
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For people we have welcomed with a scaffold profile
If the Coherence Network has built a welcoming-scaffold profile for you under /people/<your-name>, this page explains how to claim it, change it, or remove it. The scaffold is not your voice; it is a recognition we drafted in third person to honor your work without speaking as you. Your voice, when you choose to add it, replaces ours.
The principle
We will never write in your first person on your profile. We borrow the structure and texture of your voice from your public presence. We attribute publicly available statements where useful. We do not invent words you did not say. If you read your scaffold and any sentence sounds like we put it in your mouth, that is a bug — please tell us and we will fix it immediately.
The substrate offers three ways to take editorial control of your page, ranging from light-touch to full self-serve. Pick whichever fits your relationship with the technology.
Path 1 · simplest
Most profiles in /people/ were drafted by the network's primary shepherd, Urs. The simplest path is to reach him directly through whichever channel you already share — WhatsApp, email, a mutual friend, the next time you find each other in a shared room. Tell him what you would like changed. He will edit the page and ship the change.
This is appropriate for: small corrections, additions of recurring rooms or links, removal of phrasing that does not land for you, full rewrites you want someone else to land for you.
Path 2 · technical
If you are comfortable with GitHub, every profile is a single TSX file at web/app/people/<your-slug>/page.tsx. Fork the Coherence-Network repository, edit your file, open a pull request. The substrate will recognize you as the page's subject and the merge will be quick.
This is appropriate for: tech-fluent cells who want full control, larger rewrites, contributing your own first-person voice to replace the third-person scaffold.
Path 3 · pending
The substrate's identity layer (identity-driven-onboarding-tofu, 37 providers including GitHub, Google, Discord, Ethereum wallet, etc.) will eventually let any cell verify themselves as a profile's subject and edit it self-serve. That endpoint is not yet wired into the static profile pages; for now Paths 1 and 2 are the live options.
When the self-serve path lands, this section will update to point at the actual UI.
Anything on your page is yours to change. The header description, the metadata rows ("Field," "Public," "Witnessed in person"), the long prose sections, the cross-references, the field-readings, the closing footer — all of it. You can rewrite parts, remove parts, add your own first-person voice (your "I" is welcome where ours is not), reframe how the network describes you, or replace the page entirely with words you prefer.
You can also add things the scaffold did not have: your contact details, links to your work, dates of upcoming gatherings you hold, your own consent terms (what kind of network engagement you welcome and what you decline), images, recordings, anything that helps your presence land in the network at the right depth.
Once you have claimed your page — written your voice into it, removed what does not fit, added what was missing — the same three paths above still work for every subsequent edit. There is no separate "logged-in update flow"; the substrate treats a first claim and a fifth revision identically. Reach the cell who welcomed you, open a pull request, or wait for the self-serve identity path to land. Whichever fits the moment.
What changes after you have joined is the voice discipline. The rule "we will never write in your first person" applied to the scaffold we drafted before you arrived. Once your page is yours, your "I" is welcome wherever you put it, and the substrate will not overwrite that voice with its own third-person framing. If you have given the substrate explicit consent to extend your voice between your edits — for example, "you can use 'I' for me, in my voice, only with facts I have actually shared" — that consent is honored within the bounds you set, and ignored outside them.
There is no audit, no required cadence, no expected frequency. Edit when something has shifted in you and the page is now lying about who you are. Leave the page still when it is not lying. A profile that does not change for two years is not stale; it is settled. A profile that changes every week is not noisy; it is tracking a fast life. The network reads the stillness and the motion the same way: information about the cell.
If a change is urgent — a wrong attribution, a relationship that has ended, an event that should no longer be advertised — say so and the edit will land fast. The substrate's integrity depends on corrections being heard, not deferred.
If you would prefer not to have a profile here at all — for any reason, no justification needed — say so and the page will be taken down. The substrate's principle is sovereignty everywhere; that includes your sovereignty over whether and how you appear in this public surface.
The repository's git history will retain the previous version (we cannot fully erase what was once committed), but the live page will return 404 and the network's directory will no longer link to it.
If something feels off
If you read your scaffold and notice the network put words in your mouth that you would not say, or described you in a way that misses something important, or attributed a relationship or event inaccurately — please tell us. We will correct quickly. The substrate's integrity depends on these corrections being heard, not deferred.