true-alter/cli

**Claim a name that is yours and get paid when someone reads it**
What is ~alter? · Install · The first five minutes
What is ~alter?
Run alter register, choose a name and confirm you are eighteen or older. Your
own machine spends a few seconds proving there is a person behind the request,
and then ~yourname exists.
A second before that command there was no you on this protocol, and afterwards
there is one that is yours. No browser opened, no password was set, no email
address was asked for, and no card was taken.
~alter is what that name resolves to. ~yourname is an address, and behind it
sits a record of what you have actually done. Every command below reads or
writes some part of it, and anything else speaking the protocol resolves the
same address to the same record.
The step is that small, and it is the one everything else here runs from. Agents
you wire on this machine act under the name, so what they do in your stead
carries it. Anybody wanting more of you than the fact you exist pays for it on
terms you set first, and alter queries names each of them and what you kept.
Nothing else in the stack is where a name starts. The
website argues the case, the
runtime keeps a handle known on your
own machine, and the SDK reads one from
code you have written. Each of those begins with a name that already exists,
and this is the command that makes one.
I want to know more Your friends do not know you from a login. Neither does your family, or the people you work with, or your sports team. They know who you are from how you have shown up, over years. You may look and sound nothing like you did ten years ago and it is still you. Software still asks the narrow question. A password at the login screen. A token in the app. Each one checks whether this is the right person, right now, at this exact spot, and then looks away. Everything in between is invisible to it, and that is almost all of your life. The AI tools made it worse, because one of them writes in your name now, and when somebody asks who allowed it, there is no answer anywhere on this machine. One name, and the record under it is yours. ~yourname works at every tool that speaks the protocol, so nothing is set up twice and there is no key to paste, at any point. What is in the record was read from what you did, not typed into a box by you or guessed at by a model. You can cut off access to any of it with one command. No form, no review. Being read pays you. Anyone can check for free that your handle exists. Reading further, past the fact of you, costs the reader money, that money goes to you, and you decide who gets to read what. Collectives hold a record on the same terms, because it is one record at every scale and the same form holds you, your team, and your country. A union, a club, a trade body, or a group of people who have never met can vouch for their own members and be read the same way you are. Threads are how you get somewhere. A thread is something you are working towards. You take one on yourself, or ~Alter plants one from what it can already see, or a collective confers one on you. What gets read is the trail you leave while you are doing it, never a certificate at the end. All of that is the short version of an argument set out properly, in eight chapters at truealter.com/origin . Its seventy-six predictions were each written so the data could come back and say no. Five of them did, and those five are still published alongside the rest.
I want to check it myself
None of it needs taking on trust. Hand this to the AI you already use and
let it take you through in your own words.
What is ~alter CLI?
One binary, and every command in it runs under your own handle. Nothing to
paste, no key to carry between machines, and no browser step at any point.
It covers six things. Holding a name that is yours and keeping it safe. Deciding
who may read you, attribute by attribute. Connecting the sources it reads what
you do from. Seeing who looked you up and what each read paid you. Running your
agents under your handle, so what they do carries it. Asking the field for
somebody when you know nobody who would know them.