Documentation

Synsema 0.5.x — pick a page.

Getting Started

• Quickstart
• Counter your priors (LLM gotchas)
• Python → Synsema (translation table)

Language

• Syntax
• Types & data
• Tasks & lambdas
• Control flow & errors
• Modules (use / export)

Capabilities & Security

• Capabilities & intent
• Secrets
• Sandboxing untrusted code

Standard library / primitives

• Files & I/O
• Time & random
• HTTP client
• SQL, Mongo & Redis
• Search your data (FTS5, vectors, RRF)
• Cron
• Bytes, math & arrays
• JSON
• CSV, stats & charts
• Blockchain (sign & verify)
• Bitcoin (the UTXO matrix)
• WebSocket client

HTTP server

• Serve (routes, auth, validation, SSE, TLS)
• Login & sessions (cookies, passwords, JWT, TOTP)
• Build a REST API (tutorial)
• Your DB as a REST API (pattern)

Agent identity & auth

• Agent identity & auth (captokens, signed requests, OIDC, mTLS)

Frontend

• Frontend: render(), content(), static

MCP servers

• Build MCP servers (Claude/Cursor tools)
• Your DB as MCP tools (pattern)

LLM

• LLM primitives (reason/decide/analyze/generate)
• Tool calling (llm_step + call_tool)
• Provider config (native)
• Provider API directly (http_post + secret/bearer)

Agents & coordination

• Multi-agent (blackboard/swarm/locks)
• Memory & state
• Human-in-the-loop
• Observability

Operate

• CLI (run/test/check/serve/repl/daemon)
• Deploy (daemon/docker/systemd/auto-HTTPS)

Cookbook

• Copy-paste patterns

Reference

• Builtins index
• Capabilities index
• Errors & exit codes