Project · Groupware
Vines
- How you run it
- On a phoneIn Moss
- Holochain version
- 0.2.6
- Activity
- active
- Checked
- 29 October 2026
What is Vines and what is it for?
Vines is a chat tool for groups, built by Lightningrod Labs. It is designed to work inside Moss, the lab's peer-to-peer group space, where the lab describes it as the chat capacity a group adds alongside its other tools.
Vines is a chat tool for groups, made by Lightningrod Labs. Its README is explicit about what it is reacting to: in Discord or Slack, a channel's context lives only in its name, and every message takes the same shape. The code carries copyright 2021, Harris-Braun Enterprises, LLC, and the repository dates from 2023.
Inside Moss, Vines is what a group uses to talk. The lab describes it as chat built specifically for that setting, covering the features people expect: topics, channels, attachments and mentions. Moss and the lab's other tools are small Holochain apps a group composes into the collaboration space it needs.
For developers, the README is the place to start. It documents standing up a test network with npm run network 3, which bootstraps three agents, and packaging the web-happ with npm run package:webapp. The repository holds the DNA source, the webapp, the web components and the applet for We integration.
How to get it
In Moss
- Clone the repository
- Set up the toolchain as the README's dev testing section lists: the Rust wasm target, the holochain CLI, hc and zits, then npm install, submodules, the hash zome and the localize build
- Run npm run package:webapp to build the web-happ; the *.webhapp, *.dna and *.happ output lands in the artifacts folder
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightningrodlabs/vines/main/README.md
Questions people ask
- What is Vines?
- Vines is a chat tool for groups, made by Lightningrod Labs and designed to work inside Moss. The lab describes it as a chat capacity built for that group space. source
- What does Vines include?
- Topics, channels, attachments and mentions, the features its developer lists for chat. source
- Who makes Vines, and under what licence?
- Lightningrod Labs; the repository carries copyright 2021, Harris-Braun Enterprises, LLC. It is released under the Cryptographic Autonomy License, version 1.0 (CAL-1.0). source
From 3 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.
Try Vines
- Code on GitHubOpen on GitHub ↗Last change 17 October 2026.
- Releasev1.30.0Pre-release, published 17 October 2026.
- In Moss's tool library (Moss 0.16)lightningrodlabs.org/weave-tool-curation/0.16/curations-0.16.json ↗
- Ships a phone app (v1.28.1)github.com/lightningrodlabs/vines/releases/tag/v1.28.1 ↗
Details & sources
- Source
- lightningrodlabs/vines
Evidence
- Release
- github.com/lightningrodlabs/vines/releases/tag/v1.30.0shipped in a release · seen since 20 October 2026 · github.release@1
- Last change
- api.github.com/repos/lightningrodlabs/vineslisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · github.repository@1
- Activity
- github.com/lightningrodlabs/vines/releases/tag/v1.30.0shipped in a release · seen since 20 October 2026 · liveness@1
- Moss
- lightningrodlabs.org/weave-tool-curation/0.16/curations-0.16.jsonlisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · moss.listed@1
- Phone app
- github.com/lightningrodlabs/vines/releases/tag/v1.28.1shipped in a release · seen since 20 October 2026 · mobile.shipped@1
Compatibility
- hdk
- 0.2.6 · Cargo.toml @ 1647593
- hdi
- 0.3.6 · Cargo.toml @ 1647593
- holochain-client
- 0.16.7 · package.json @ 1647593
- happ.yaml
- absent
- web-happ.yaml
- absent