Documentation

This is the reference for standard.mode.place: an open style standard on the AT Protocol, built on the Mise en Mode approach. A theme is a look you save to your own account; any app that speaks the standard can render your content your way.

If you’d rather see it than read about it, the home page has it running, and the studio will make you one.

v1: the schemas are settled

The place.mode.standard.* schemas are frozen at v1. Evolution from here is additive-only: new optional fields and new aspects, never a removal or a tightened constraint. Read the canonical JSON on the lexicons repo.

Start here

What is a mode?The whole idea, in plain language.

Make a theme in the studioNo code: pick your values, save them to your account.

FAQShort answers to the questions people ask first.

Build with it

Publish a theme with codeThe API path: build the record, validate it, write it.

Render themes in your appIngest people's looks and render content their way.

Feeds and containmentMany authors on one page, each look kept to its own content.

Preview a theme on your siteLet this site hand your pages a theme to render.

VerificationPublishing as a brand or a domain? Prove the records are yours.

Look things up

The Mode ContractThe precise rules for resolving and rendering a look.

Schema referenceEvery record and field, in full.

Common expressionsNaming the concept a look is for.

Behind it

Design decisionsWhy the standard is shaped the way it is.

ColophonWhere the schemas live and who publishes them.

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standard.mode.place is an open standard, developed in the open. Everything you need to adopt it (the schemas, these docs, the reference workflows) lives on the network itself. The approach behind it, Mise en Mode (dressing a page in nested expressions), is set out in the book, available here.