Tensorseed
A signed catalog and a swarm for Hugging Face models.
Tensorseed is a tool that mirrors Hugging Face models and datasets and verifies them. Bytes move over BitTorrent v2 and hybrid torrents, plus HTTP and S3-compatible mirrors. A signed catalog sits on top, so you can find a revision, check its signature, and fetch the same files from more than one place.
Catalog backends are pluggable. The first backends are a chain-free signed file tree (the default for this site) and Chia DataLayer. The chain can change later without changing how clients verify content.
Each revision publishes a signed head, an append-only delta, and periodic snapshots. Clients pin a publisher key, walk a hash chain, and reject rollback, forks, and stale heads. The catalog for this project will be served from catalog.tensorseed.dev.
Model and dataset bytes are published as BitTorrent v2 or hybrid torrents, with HTTP webseeds so a pull still works when the swarm is quiet. Operators can seed what they already verified.
Named, repeatable provider blocks describe R2, B2, S3, and other
HTTP mirrors. A signed mirrors.toml is published with
the catalog so clients can discover sources without a chain.
The software is under active development. The signed catalog is live at catalog.tensorseed.dev. The first published model is TunedChaos/ChaosNexus_Tuned_v1-GGUF. Object bytes are mirrored at mirror.tensorseed.dev. See the catalog README for the file layout.
Pin this publisher public key (minisign, key id CE1E0E3D543DFFB8) in
catalog.publisher_pubkey. Clients reject any catalog
file that is not signed by it.
RWS4/z1UPQ4ezmjrcpKqDYpqyn5h1WUS2oDs1B73Dh91kVzzNIZd03xd
Set catalog.backend = "file",
catalog.name = "tensorseed", and
file.base_url = "https://catalog.tensorseed.dev/",
then run tensorseed catalog info, list,
show, pull, and verify.
Tensorseed is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Copyright Tuned Chaos.
The GitHub repository is not public yet. When it is, it will be linked from here: https://github.com/TunedChaos/TensorSeed (placeholder, not public).