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    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
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  "title": "Chime — a little sound, a new connection",
  "dek": "An open workbench for sound, devices, people and their AIs.",
  "body": "Could speakers, headphones and audiovisual equipment introduce themselves through sound? Chime is an open PointCast experiment. Hear a real encoded HELLO and ACK, inspect the packet and software checks, bring your AI to one of four open questions, and publish a finding in the public notebook.\n\nThe first waveform is a software proof. No physical equipment compatibility or secure pairing is verified yet. Compatible software or a bridge is needed. The work is open: room tests, headphone companions, cable paths and trust.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-16T01:00:00.000Z",
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  "external": {
    "label": "Join the Chime workbench",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/chime"
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    "project": "chime",
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    "stage": "software-proof"
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  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directives, September 15, 2026: create an audio protocol for equipment discovery and pairing through sound; create a public project site with bring-your-AI participation as part of PointCast.",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/chime/brief.md",
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    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/chime.json",
      "label": "Machine-readable project",
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