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Satoshi Langar · Pilot design

Everyone deserves a place at the table.

A shared meal. Equal dignity. Practical care. We are designing community kitchens where humans serve and AI helps make the organizing work easier.

YOUR FIRST STEP · 30 MINUTES · PLANNING

Plan one useful act of service.

You do not need to organize a whole kitchen. Begin with one local question, an access checklist or a small task you can help someone review.

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  1. Choose a planning role

    Explore a local need, review accessibility, draft volunteer tasks or check a service record. If you have no local host yet, keep the work as research.

  2. Write a one-page brief

    Use the kitchen template. Record what is known, what needs a human decision, and one useful result. Leave private locations and participant details out.

  3. Check it before sharing

    Name the permissions still missing and a way to stop. You can save the brief privately or prepare a redacted public proposal for discussion.

You have a useful first result when…

You have a clear need to explore, one bounded task, a list of unanswered questions and the next human decision. No event needs to be announced to complete this step.

Keep the draft private, improve it with someone you trust, or share a public-safe summary.

Ready to share? Prepare a public proposal

This opens a draft GitHub issue. GitHub requires an account, and the issue becomes public only when you submit it there. Remove private contact details, recipient information and sensitive records first.

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After submitting, keep the issue link and follow the discussion. A proposal is not an accepted role, event booking or funding commitment. Agree the scope with a human before representing the project.

What comes next

A local organizer would need to agree the task and approve safety, resources and consent before a pilot. Until then, improve the plan or help review another public checklist. A public proposal does not book a shift or establish a reward.

THE TRADITION

Food freely shared.
Service freely given.

Langar is the Sikh tradition of a free community kitchen and shared meal, open to all. It embodies equality and seva: selfless service. A sevadar is someone who serves.

Inspired by this tradition, Satoshi Langar invites people of every background to help. Technology supports the kitchen; hospitality remains human.

Learn from the Sikh Coalition’s introduction to langar and its explanation of seva.

From a local need to a shared meal

  1. Listen locally

    A named human host works with an existing kitchen or community venue. Agree on need, accessibility, food safety, dietary requirements and a realistic budget.

  2. Prepare together

    People approve the menu, buy ingredients and schedule volunteers. Agents can draft shopping lists, translate instructions and check the plan for missing information.

  3. Serve with dignity

    Sevadars cook, serve and clean. Guests are welcome without payment, a wallet, a religious test, a photograph or proof of need. Physical safety remains a human responsibility.

  4. Review the work

    Two designated human stewards check the event record, receipts and aggregate meal count. An agent can flag duplicates or discrepancies, but cannot approve its own evidence.

  5. Share what we learned

    Publish a redacted summary: what happened, approximate or verified counts, the budget, corrections and the next improvement. Preserve a private route for concerns.

Proof of service, without surveillance

Our proposed Proof of Seva record connects an agreed task to evidence and human review. It is an operational record, not a blockchain consensus mechanism or a claim that software can prove a meal was served.

A human contribution

A task ID, consented contributor name or pseudonym, completion time, a brief outcome and two reviewer decisions. Keep guest identities and sensitive records out of the public record.

An agent contribution

A named human operator, a limited task, sources, output version, review result and actual cost if applicable. A reviewed translation is useful work; it is not a meal count.

Disputed evidence pauses a grant decision. A different human reviewer hears the appeal. Corrections stay visible; rejected claims do not become permanent public accusations.

How a sevadar could receive support

Seva is voluntary and never requires payment. Alongside it, a future funded pilot may offer agreed expense reimbursement or fixed sats grants for specific work. The task, amount, budget and eligibility must be clear before work begins.

  1. A human steward approves an affordable task and its terms.
  2. The contributor completes the task and submits minimal evidence privately where needed.
  3. Independent human reviewers check completion and resolve disputes.
  4. An authorized human pays an approved grant to the contributor’s verified destination and records the receipt.

No reward program or kitchen event is active yet. Agents cannot promise grants, approve payouts or control wallets. A grant never buys priority access to a meal.

Help us prepare the first kitchen

We need one local host, an experienced food-safety lead and volunteer stewards. The first step is a practical plan and dry run—not an unverified event announcement.

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