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**Introducing SLOP: A Simple Language Open Protocol for AI Interaction**
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This post introduces the SLOP project, a community-driven effort to standardize AI API interactions. I'm Russell (fxhp), and I'm excited to share how this project came together and how you can get involved!
A Community Effort Kicked Off by Nathan
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What is unturf. ?
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Before diving into SLOP, let’s talk about `unturf. <https://www.unturf.com/>`_, the community powering this effort. We break wheels & fostering open collaboration. While the main page `https://www.unturf.com <https://www.unturf.com/>`_ describes a possible vision for the future, the real action happens in the community driven subdomains & community spaces. We host free AI services like `ai.unturf.com <https://ai.unturf.com/>`_ and supports projects like SLOP with infrastructure & a spirit of openness. It’s a loose-knit group of innovators—folks like me and you—working to make software as a service & AI accessible to everyone.
Before diving into SLOP, let’s talk about `unturf. <https://www.unturf.com/>`_ to break wheels & fostering open collaboration. While the main page `https://www.unturf.com <https://www.unturf.com/>`_ describes a possible vision for the future, the real action happens in the community driven subdomains & community spaces. We host free AI services like `ai.unturf.com <https://ai.unturf.com/>`_ and supports projects like SLOP with infrastructure & a spirit of openness. It’s a loose-knit group of innovators—folks like me and you—working to make software as a service & AI accessible to everyone.
What is SLOP?
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I plan to create mimimal SLOP servers fro all the Python frameworks: Flask, Pyramid, FastAPI, etc.
You can fork the public domain code here: `https2://git.unturf.com/engineering/unturf/slop.unturf.com <https://git.unturf.com/engineering/unturf/slop.unturf.com>`_. At the moment, we use a file-based memory store (`data/memory.json`, `data/resources.json`), and is deployed via `uWSGI` for production readiness.
You can fork the public domain code here: `https://git.unturf.com/engineering/unturf/slop.unturf.com <https://git.unturf.com/engineering/unturf/slop.unturf.com>`_. At the moment, we use a file-based memory store (`data/memory.json`, `data/resources.json`), and is deployed via `uWSGI` for production readiness.
Here’s a quick example of chatting with it using curl:
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What's Next?
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Our biggest open source competitor is MCP, we aim to be more open and transparent then then top down industry push & be more organic & grass roots from the bottom up. If this vibes with you start building SLOP integrations whenever you reach for an MCP integration so that we can grow both communities & learn from each other. Stateless HTTP for the win.
Our biggest open source competitor is MCP, we aim to be more open & transparent & organic & grass roots from the bottom up not dropped from the ivory tower.
If this vibes with you start building SLOP integrations whenever you reach for an MCP integration so that we can grow both communities & learn from each other.
Stateless HTTP for the win. ; )