Contributors

Core contributors

Venkatesh Rao — @vgururao

Started the protocol. Author of the specification (0.1 through 0.3) and of the decision log behind it; maintains Blygger Studio, this site, and the blygger.com directory, and runs the first live node at venkateshrao.com/blyg/.

Kyle Mathews — @KyleAMathews

Much of the reference client's current architecture:

• Rebuilt Studio as a React single-page app on a validated resource API with a generated SDK (#21, #22; 0.10.0).
• Made the public homepage fast: batched reads and indexed lookups took time to first byte from about 4 seconds to about 0.35 (#25; 0.11.1).
• Scoped client access with OAuth and MCP, so other software — including AI agents — can work with a node under tokens its owner grants and revokes (#34; 0.28.0).
• Cut database reads from Studio's polling and the public feeds (#40; 0.32.0).
• In review: a 60-second public page cache (#41), Webmention delivery for long subscription origins (#42), and shared source schemas (#43).

Runs blyg.bricolage.io.

Aneesh Sathe — @aneeshsathe

The protocol's most thorough reader so far, and the first to test it systematically:

• A conformance and intent toolkit, with a first-round report (blygger-spec#11, in review): every MUST, SHOULD and MAY in the 0.3 spec indexed, JSON Schemas for every document, a read-only crawler that checks the live network against the spec, and formal models of the rules that turned up gaps worth ruling on.
• Twenty-three issues across the spec and Studio, seventeen of them fixed: grammar edge cases in transclusion and generation scopes, importer and lineage bugs, and the question that made [[id]] links inert inside code (blygger-spec#4). A suggestion of Aneesh's put public hoppers on pages of their own (0.24.0).
• Studio redesigned for the phone (#32, #36; 0.22.0).
• A lineage glyph, hex view and action ring (#35), held as the first candidate for Studio's extension mechanism rather than the base client.

Also builds blygger-desktop (see the ecosystem tab), and runs blyg.aneeshsathe.com.

Contributors

• akash — @akashtattva. The mobile navigation and Contents drawer on this site (blygger-org#1), and blyg feeds that strict RSS readers accept (blygger-studio#33).
• Robert Peake — @cyberscribe. Proposed that the manifest say where the rest of a blyg lives, so sites that cannot follow the file layout — WordPress, for one — can still publish one (blygger-spec#2). Ruled in as decision #51 and scheduled for 0.4.
• Brady Dale — @BradyDale. The robot badge that discloses generated text began as a convention on bradydale.com; Studio adopted it in 0.27.0.
• Anuraj R — @anuraj-rp. An RFC for an optional content identifier on pinned versions, for mirroring pins to IPFS (blygger-spec#13).
• Matthew Sweet — @msmsim. A proposed extension for Glass Bead Games (blygger-spec#12).
• Mike Casey — @miguelito4. A custom theme and reading typeface for Studio (blygger-studio#38).
• Raynaud Simon — @keyral. Reported broken links in the spec's docs (blygger-spec#3).
• djinna — @djinna. Asked for a way to size inline images (blygger-studio#37).

Ecosystem contributors

People building their own clients, integrations and tools, alongside the reference client. The ecosystem page indexes the projects and the live blygs they serve.

• Brady Dale — @BradyDale. Blynger, an independent client on its own version line, publishing at bradydale.com/blyg.
• Robert Peake — @cyberscribe. Soapbox, a WordPress plugin that publishes a blyg, in progress — the first client built on the manifest-located surface proposed in blygger-spec#2.
• Aneesh Sathe — @aneeshsathe. blygger-desktop, a native macOS studio for blygs in Rust.
• Mike Casey — @miguelito4. drafts-blyg, one-tap fragments from a phone via Drafts, and static-to-studio, which moves a static blyg into Blygger Studio at the same address. Wrote a static client, caseyjr-blyg, before moving caseyjr.org/blyg into Studio with it.
• Brandon Pink — @brndnpink. blyg-publisher, an Obsidian plugin that publishes a blyg from a folder of your vault.
• Christopher Boette — @chrisbodhi. hugo-blyg, a blyg from a Hugo site, published at newschematic.org/blyg.
• Mike Travers — @mtravers. Taught goddinpotty, a digital-garden generator for Logseq graphs, to emit a blyg: AMMDI.
• Patrick Atwater — @patwater. pioneering-spirit-blyg, Blygger Studio extended to run Pioneering Spirit beside its old archive, and a Windows port of blygger-desktop.
• Matthew Sweet — @msmsim. msn, an independent client, publishing at msweet.net/notes.
• Protocols for Business — @protocolvision. The Protocol Institute research group's own static client, sig-p4b, publishing at protocolsforbusiness.com/blyg.

Clients known only by their blygs

These publish with clients of their own whose authors haven't been matched to a profile yet. If one is yours, say so.

• thinking.drwip.com/blyg — the first independent implementation, before the September 2026 talk.
• blyg.sachinbenny.xyz — sachin-blyg.
• artlu.xyz — astro-gyoza.
• florianlohse.com/blyg — my-garden-site.
• rafael.fyi/blyg — rafael-fyi-blyg, adapted from Protocols for Business's client.