Sources — Radicle: Decentralized Git Network & Forge

Part of radicle-decentralized-git/index

Full reference list for the Radicle research topic.

Official

radicle.network — the distributed code network landing page ("For humans and machines alike")
radicle.dev — the sovereign forge: docs, install, guides, FAQ
Radicle Protocol Guide — the definitive "how it works under the hood" document (nodes, gossip, replication, identity, COBs)
Radicle User Guide — getting started, CLI usage
Radicle Heartwood repo (GitHub mirror) — reference implementation, Rust, MIT/Apache-2.0
Heartwood on Codeberg — official mirror (codeberg.org/radicle/heartwood)
Radicle RIPs (Improvement Proposals) — protocol specification: RIP-1 (networking), RIP-2 (identity), RIP-3 (storage layout)
Radicle Garden — hosted always-on nodes ("Radicle Garden 🌱")
Radicle Desktop — graphical client (launched 2025-06)
Radicle Seeder's Guide — how to run a seed node

LWN: Radicle — peer-to-peer collaboration with Git — independent technical overview of the protocol (motivation, gossip + git replication split)
Radicle Protocol Overview (Heartwood) — HackMD — community protocol overview
gen.xyz: Peer-to-peer collaboration protocol Radicle.xyz — background and history writeup
Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) — inspiration for the gossip model
Noise protocol / XK pattern — the transport encryption used between nodes (same pattern as Lightning)
W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) Core — node identity standard
The Update Framework (TUF) — verification model inspiration for signed refs
Ink & Switch: Local-first software — the local-first architecture principle Radicle follows