Zone Trip

Zone Trip is a browser-based listening interface backed by the working white paper:

Zone Trip: A Non-Directive Local AI Mirror for Community Self-Understanding

The front page simulates the physical installation for review. The real booth is a microphone connected to one Linux box running capture, Whisper, Ollama, and the processor locally. Pages and local install use the same front end by default; local install only adds the localhost audio endpoint. The manifesto route presents the project's core question, constitutional limits, local-first architecture, deployment gates, and collaborator needs.

Live Site

https://zonetrip.castalia.institute/

Source Document

The reviewed PDF is included at:

docs/Zone_Trip_White_Paper_First_Review.pdf

Run Locally

This project has no build step. Open index.html in a browser, or serve the folder:

./bin/zonetrip-serve --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5173 --root .

Then open http://localhost:5173.

Standalone Linux Deployment

Zone Trip is structured as a standalone static site with no external runtime assets, no analytics, no API calls, and no cloud dependency.

Build a Linux deployment archive:

./scripts/package-linux.sh

See DEPLOY.md for systemd installation and manual run instructions.

Local AI Processor

The local AI path uses Whisper plus Ollama on equivalent local hardware. Cloud Run is treated as a simulator for this processor, not the charter-compliant default runtime.

See PROCESSOR.md.

The processor also supports daily batch mode: each request becomes charter-filtered segment notes, and /finalize-day writes one integrated model.md at the end of the day.

Cloud Run Review Deployment

For a public review endpoint, the same static site can deploy to Google Cloud Run with scale-to-zero:

./scripts/deploy-cloud-run.sh YOUR_PROJECT_ID us-central1 zonetrip

See CLOUD_RUN.md. This is intended for public static content review, not for participant-material processing under the local/offline charter.

Project Structure

• index.html - browser-based installation simulator
• booth.html - compatibility route for the simulator
• manifesto/ - project manifesto and deployment doctrine
• architecture/ - runtime architecture and processing-loop documentation
• styles.css - responsive visual system
• script.js - content data and rendering
• scene.js - Three.js rendered booth scene
• booth.js - local microphone recording controls
• booth-config.js - explicit world-model endpoint configuration
• CNAME - GitHub Pages custom domain
• charter.md - immutable LLM input for constitutional boundaries
• model.md - seeded durable derived world model
• WORLD_MODEL.md - boundary for derived model updates without transcript storage
• HARDWARE.md - one-PC-per-booth hardware assumption
• PROCESSOR.md - local Whisper/Ollama processor and Cloud Run simulator
• SIMULATION.md - synthetic community simulation and mirror evaluation harness
• assets/ - local responsive stage imagery
• vendor/three/ - vendored Three.js runtime module
• services/processor/ - FastAPI processor for Whisper and Ollama
• docs/ - source white paper PDF
• bin/zonetrip-serve - local static server
• bin/zonetrip-capture-once - local microphone capture helper for the real booth
• bin/zonetrip-finalize-day - local end-of-day model integration helper
• deploy/systemd/ - optional systemd unit
• scripts/ - standalone audit and Linux package scripts
• Dockerfile - Cloud Run compatible container

Community Simulation

Run the synthetic mirror-evaluation harness with:

python -m pip install -r services/processor/requirements.txt
python scripts/simulate-community.py

It evaluates representative temporary inputs against charter boundaries and writes simulations/reports/community-evaluation.md. See SIMULATION.md.

To test end-of-day batch reasoning against per-utterance updates:

python scripts/test-daily-batch-hypothesis.py

Product Direction

The next useful step is to turn this static site into a prototype workspace for:

• booth consent copy
• local processing architecture notes
• nightly burn protocol
• steward review checklist
• public reflection examples