REST β HTTP request/responsegRPC β typed RPCGraphQL β query languageA2A β agent-to-agentA2UI β agent-to-UIA2C β agent-to-CLIMCP β Model Context ProtocolOpenAI-compat β chat/completionsAnthropic-compat β messagesCPU β general purposeGPU β CUDA, Metal, ROCmTPU β Google tensorNPU β neural processingedge β Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edgevector β SIMD ops, AVX-512wasm β sandboxed executionRAM β main memoryVRAM β GPU memorycache β L1/L2/L3, Redisephemeral β short-lived stateregisters β kernel-level stateKV β key-value (Cloudflare, Redis)DB β Postgres, MySQL, SQLiteblob β R2, S3, GCSfile β local FS, NFSobject β typed objects, content-addressedtime-series β InfluxDB, Prometheusgraph β Neo4j, DGraphvector β Pinecone, Weaviate, qdrantHTTP β request/responseMQTT β pub/sub for IoTWebSocket β bidirectionalgRPC stream β bidirectional typedUnix socket β local IPCSSH β secure shellQUIC β modern UDP transportOAuth β delegated authAPI key β long-lived secretmTLS β mutual TLSDID β decentralized identifierJWT β token-basedSSO β single sign-onlogs β structured, unstructuredmetrics β counters, gauges, histogramstraces β distributed spansprofiles β CPU, memory, GPUevents β domain eventsStripe β metered, prepaidGitHub Sponsors β sponsorshipBuy Me a Coffee β donationAWS billing β usageCloudflare billing β bundleEvery cell in Quilt has trunk links. The IDE shows them in the right panel. Click any cell to see its trunks.
What the cell calls.
POST /v1/chat/completions β OpenAIPOST /v1/messages β AnthropicGET /kv/quilt:cell-7 β Cloudflare KVWS wss://... β A2AWhat the cell receives.
POST /quilt/elephant/field β from elephant cellPOST /quilt/murmur/gossip β from peerGET /quilt/state/dump β IDE pollWhat the cell uses.
compute: 0.5 CPU, 0.1 GPUmemory: 256 MB RAM, 80 MB VRAMstorage: 1 GB blob, 10 MB KVWhat the cell costs.
compute: $0.01/hrstorage: $0.001/dayAPI: $0.0001/calltotal: ~$0.50/day| Trunk | Substrate layer | Conservation meaning |
|---|---|---|
| APIs | Protocol (L5) | Ξ³ = calls/sec, Ξ· = latency |
| Compute | Scale (L2) | Ξ³ = provisioning, Ξ· = idle |
| Memory | State (L7) | Ξ³ = allocation, Ξ· = leak |
| Storage | State (L7) | Ξ³ = write, Ξ· = read |
| Network | Protocol (L5) | Ξ³ = transmit, Ξ· = drop |
| Identity | Address (L1) | Ξ³ = grant, Ξ· = revoke |
| Observability | State (L7) | Ξ³ = emit, Ξ· = retain |
| Billing | Scale (L2) | Ξ³ = spend, Ξ· = budget |
The trunk links are visible in the Quilt IDE inspector (right panel) and the Zoom IDE (right panel "Trunk Links" section). The system is fractal. The trunk is at every level.