longecho

ECHO philosophy documentation, compliance validator, and static site builder.

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What Is This?

longecho is both a philosophy and a tool:

• ECHO is a philosophy for creating durable personal data archives that survive time
• longecho is a CLI tool that validates ECHO compliance and builds browsable sites

Quick Start

# Check if a directory is ECHO-compliant
longecho check ~/my-data/

# Find ECHO sources under a path
longecho discover ~/

# Build a static site from an archive
longecho build ~/my-archive/

# Preview locally
longecho serve ~/my-archive/

Documentation

Document	Description
ECHO Philosophy	Core principles for durable archives
longecho Tool	CLI commands and usage
Manifest Schema	Machine-readable metadata format

Toolkits

ECHO-compliant toolkits that work with longecho:

Toolkit	Purpose
Persona Toolkit	Persona synthesis from archives
Stone Toolkit	Plain text distillation
Ecosystem	Full list of toolkits

Design Notes

See Interview Insights for design decisions and rationale.

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"The archive is not a monument. It is a conversation that outlasts its participants."