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THE LOCAL COREThe shared infrastructure behind The Local Internet.

Future research — not a production service

Local Internet Labs

Exploring what's next for the local internet.

Local Internet Labs will be the research and experimentation environment for The Local Internet: the place where new capabilities are explored, prototyped and tested before any of them become part of the production system. Labs is in planning. Nothing listed on this page is operating today.

Planned research areas

  • AI Surface Recommendations

    Planned

    Advice on which configured surfaces may suit an existing record. Advice only; the existing review process would still make every publication decision.

  • Agent & MCP Access

    Planned

    Read-only access for software agents, built on the approved public-data rules of Open Records.

  • Local Explorer

    Planned

    A folder-style way to browse how the local world is organized, over the same records, with no copies.

  • Local Intelligence

    Planned

    Signals about record completeness, stale information and opportunities.

  • Graph Visualization

    Planned

    Visual ways to explore relationships among records, places, services and surfaces.

  • AI-native local discovery

    Planned

    New ways to find local information beyond traditional search.

How Labs will work

Explore → Prototype → Test → Validate → Graduate

A capability proves itself in Labs and operates in production. No experiment may change records, verification, claims, publication, featured placement, credits or permissions.

The production Local Internet is described on TheLocalCore.com and its architecture pages; none of those are Labs experiments.