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The Solid26 Implementors Guide is your technical starting point. It brings together pinned versions of the core Solid specifications β covering the protocol, identity, authentication, and access control β into a single coherent reference. If you're building a Solid application or server, this is the document that tells you exactly what to target.
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The guide is being developed as a work item of the W3C Solid Community Group. You can follow its progress and contribute on GitHub.
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Get Started
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Head to dev.solidproject.org for tutorials, libraries, and project templates to help you start building. You'll find step-by-step guides covering React and Next.js, authentication, and hosting your own Solid server β with more being added regularly.
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Help Us Improve It
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Solid26 is a stable foundation, not a finished product for Solid. The feedback developers give us now will directly shape the standards, tools, and training materials the community builds next. Whether it's a gap in the spec, a rough edge in the tooling, or a pattern that should be a best practice β we want to hear it.
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Join one of the feedback groups to work alongside others across sectors, or email solid@theodi.org with your thoughts.
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Solid is an open standard created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee that lets people store their personal data in an online space they manage β called a Pod β and decide exactly which services, applications and AI agents can access it.
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Solid26 is the first bundled release of the Solid specification, giving developers and organisations a stable foundation to build a new generation of applications that put people back in control of their data.
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The video below walks through the kinds of applications that can be built with Solid26 β from creating and managing your own Pod, to health tracking, fitness, and AI. If you're a developer or technologist ready to start building, head to the developers page to get started. If you want to help shape where Solid goes next, read on.
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Get Involved!
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Solid26 needs people like you β whether you understand the code, the real-world problems it needs to solve, or both.
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Watch the demos above, then tell us what you think. What applications would you build? What problems could Solid solve in your field? Every piece of feedback β even a quick reaction β helps steer the future of Solid.
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Want to go deeper? We're forming focused feedback groups across areas like Social Good, Government, AI Research, Professional Developers, and Enterprise & Corporate β with more being created as interest grows. Each group will explore and stress-test Solid26, to surface the real adoption challenges that matter most. What these groups find will directly shape the standards, tools, and training materials the community is building.
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Ready to join? Fill out the form below, or email solid@theodi.org with your area of expertise and a line about your background. We'll match you to the right group and get you started.
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