Early-stage software. Shurli is experimental and built with AI assistance. It will have bugs. Not recommended for production or safety-critical use. Read the disclaimer.

About

What is Shurli?

Shurli is sovereign peer-to-peer infrastructure. It connects your devices directly through NAT, CGNAT, firewalls, and across networks, without relying on cloud services or vendor accounts. Your keys, your peers, your network.

Where this is going

The long-term trajectory is the Zero-Human Network: a network where zero humans are required to operate it. Not zero humans using it. Zero humans needed to keep it running. Nodes discover peers, negotiate connections, traverse NATs, and manage trust autonomously.

This is not where Shurli is today. Today it is sovereign infrastructure that humans set up and control. Every design decision points toward that trajectory.

Engineering Philosophy

Shurli follows a few core principles. For the full story, including how these principles evolved and their intellectual lineage, see the Development Philosophy page and the blog post on how we build.

Self-Sovereignty First
Your keys, your peers, your network. No accounts to create, no services to subscribe to, no data leaving your control. The trust model is SSH-style: an authorized_keys file that you manage directly.
Single Binary, Zero Dependencies
One file to install, one file to run. No Docker, no runtime, no package manager needed. This isn’t just convenience - it’s resilience. Fewer moving parts means fewer things that break.
Honest About Limitations
When Shurli can’t establish a direct connection, it tells you. When it falls back to relay, it tells you. No silent degradation, no hidden costs.
Docs as First-Class Deliverable
Every architecture decision is documented with the reasoning behind it. The Engineering Journal captures not just what was built, but why every choice was made.

Built with AI

Shurli is not a project that bolted on AI tooling. Architecture, code, documentation, and testing are all developed with AI as a core part of the process from day one.

The direction and decisions are human. The execution leverages AI at every layer. Every line is reviewed, tested, and shipped with the same rigor regardless of origin. The code speaks for itself.

Open Source

Shurli is open source under the MIT license. Contributions, questions, and feedback are welcome. File an issue or open a pull request.