More @roost.tools docs site updates! We’re now serving project docs from the shiny new docs.roost.tools domain. Idk what to do with the bare domain yet, so it currently redirects to roost.tools, but projects get a nice URL like: docs.roost.tools/coop/latest More to come soon. 👀

Welcome - Coop Documentation

User guide, development guide, API reference, deployment info, and integration details for Coop, the open source review and moderation tool from ROOST.

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Who else is using @roost.tools’ Osprey for moderation on ATProto? Would there be interest in some sort of shared repo for UDFs and Plugins?

The @roost.tools community site now shows contributors from the GitHub API! It doesn’t reflect every contribution to the community (e.g. folks who are active in working groups or chat but not on GitHub), but it’s a start to try to visualize who the ROOST community actually is. community.roost.tools

The @roost.tools Coop docs are looking preeeeeetty nice now, huh? 👀 roostorg.github.io/coop/latest/

Wooo, first Coop release I've directly been a part of — hoping you'll see more of that soon! I've been grinding on reducing tech debt and figuring out how to make the code more maintainable long term

ROOST@roost.tools · 2w ago

The community of ROOST contributors has been busy over the past several weeks working on the upcoming 1.1.0 release of Coop. We have a pre-release available for testing, and would love your feedback if you’re currently deploying Coop or are interested in trying it out.

We’re still refining our processes, but I think we went too long between releases! 😅 For a relatively minor update, there’s so much good stuff coming in Coop 1.1.0. And a ton from adopters using Coop in production, or first-time contributors. It’s exciting to see this community grow and develop. 😊

ROOST@roost.tools · 2w ago

The community of ROOST contributors has been busy over the past several weeks working on the upcoming 1.1.0 release of Coop. We have a pre-release available for testing, and would love your feedback if you’re currently deploying Coop or are interested in trying it out.

The community of ROOST contributors has been busy over the past several weeks working on the upcoming 1.1.0 release of Coop. We have a pre-release available for testing, and would love your feedback if you’re currently deploying Coop or are interested in trying it out.

Release Coop 1.1.0 (alpha) · roostorg/coop

NoteThis is a pre-release! We would appreciate early testing and feedback of these updates to help us validate the stable 1.1.0 release. The world’s first free, open source child safety infrastruc...

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Most tooling for fighting fraud and abuse was built for 2010s social media. The abuse evolved. The tools mostly didn't. @julietshen.online at Marketplace Risk NYC on why open source and open weight models help: you run them yourself, so sensitive data never leaves your systems. github.com/roostorg

Yes, please! GitHub stars may be largely a vanity metric, but it does also help us spread the word about our open source moderation tools. :) Plus, it’s fun to watch this chart go up!

Emelia@thisismissem.social · 3w ago

Hey friends, could you do me a favour and star github.com/roostorg/coop if you like the Roost Coop project?

Hey friends, could you do me a favour and star github.com/roostorg/coop if you like the Roost Coop project?

GitHub - roostorg/coop: Review and moderation, your way. Online safety dashboard, queues, routing and automatic enforcement rules, and integrations.

Review and moderation, your way. Online safety dashboard, queues, routing and automatic enforcement rules, and integrations. - roostorg/coop

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Two of my repeated (but favorite!) conversations at TrustCon were about how other trust and safety organizations can open source some of their work, and how to _actually_ consume open source software. You hit the download button and then..? Now written up, and with slightly better artisanal visuals

ROOST@roost.tools · 4w ago

ROOST COO Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak spent over a decade building and leading open source projects. She breaks down the different reasons teams open source safety tools, and why treating them all the same is often why a promising project quietly stalls out. roost.tools/blog/releasi...

We’ll be there, too! Find @cassidyjames.com or @julietshen.online to chat about ROOST, open source, and trust & safety. :)

GNOME@gnome.org · 3w ago

Will you be attending The Matrix Conference in Malmö, Sweden, on 20th to 23rd October? Find Jack, who’ll be representing Fractal, and say hello! Want to learn more? Check out 2026.matrix.org/ #Matrix #MatrixConf

Open source is new territory for trust and safety! more safety tools are being released free or open source than ever, but this is a new practice. what does it actually mean to release something as open source, and what does it take to run open source tools like Coop or Osprey for a team?

I’ll be there! We have lots we want to chat about around the @roost.tools open source community as well as Osprey itself. You can even come lurk if you just want to see how the sausage gets made… 👀️

ROOST@roost.tools · 4w ago

We’re holding our Osprey Working Group call in just under an hour and a half (1730 UTC)! This public meeting brings adopters, contributors, and curious folks together to discuss and plan the Osprey open source project that helps power T&S at Bluesky, Matrix, Discord, & more. Come join us!

We’re holding our Osprey Working Group call in just under an hour and a half (1730 UTC)! This public meeting brings adopters, contributors, and curious folks together to discuss and plan the Osprey open source project that helps power T&S at Bluesky, Matrix, Discord, & more. Come join us!

September 4, 2026 · roostorg osprey · Discussion #484

Our bi-weekly working group call is Friday 1730–1830 UTC! Google Meet #osprey in the ROOST Discord Proposed discussion topics: Adopters! Pain points, feedback, questions, etc. ROOST/Community updat...

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We're hosting Mistral today in office hours today. They'll chat with us about their work building Shieldstral - decisions to build a small, reasoning-less model, the underlying taxonomy it relies on, what its ideal use-cases are, where they want more testing/feedback done.

ROOST@roost.tools · 2mo ago

Part of our mission is to enable pluralist online safety with cutting-edge technology. Today, Shieldstral from Mistral joins the ROOST Model Community as the latest openly licensed model: 3B params, bring your own policy, multimodal, multilingual roost.tools/blog/mistral...

This is an objectively helpful resource and guide, and not just because Coop from @roost.tools is mentioned! OpenAI developed this resource with expert input from the Tech Coalition, Thorn, NCMEC, and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). developers.openai.com/api/docs/gui...

CSAM guidance | OpenAI API

Learn practical guidance for addressing CSAM risks in products built with OpenAI.

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Roblox was a founding supporter of ROOST. Today three of their safety tools join the ROOST Model Community. Sentinel, PII Classifier, Voice Safety Classifier as well as a benchmark dataset for the PII classifier More on the blog: roost.tools/blog/welcomi...

Welcoming Roblox’s Safety Models to the ROOST Community

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Part of our mission is to enable pluralist online safety with cutting-edge technology. Today, Shieldstral from Mistral joins the ROOST Model Community as the latest openly licensed model: 3B params, bring your own policy, multimodal, multilingual roost.tools/blog/mistral...

Welcoming Mistral's Shieldstral to the ROOST Model Community

Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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updated link: github.com/orgs/roostor...

RFC: Support for Open Models in Coop and Osprey · roostorg · Discussion #82

Context Part of ROOST's mission is to enable pluralist online safety where each organization that's using our tools gets to decide what is harmful and how to take action on it. Coop and Osprey are ...

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ROOST@roost.tools · 2mo ago

We have a Request For Comment out seeking feedback on our approach to natively support open weight models in Coop and Osprey! github.com/roostorg/coo...

We have a Request For Comment out seeking feedback on our approach to natively support open weight models in Coop and Osprey! github.com/roostorg/coo...

RFC: Support for Open Models in Coop and Osprey · roostorg coop · Discussion #1025

Context Part of ROOST's mission is to enable pluralist online safety where each organization that's using our tools gets to decide what is harmful and how to take action on it. Coop and Osprey are ...

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Much like the work that goes into the protocols and software behind the web, most people don’t know about trust and safety—including the harms that exist and the tools to combat them. We attended FOSSY to chat with, learn from, and help educate fellow open source developers. #FOSSY #FediCon

Shouldn't we all just go offline? Our President Dr. @camillefrancois.bsky.social gets that question constantly. Her answer? touch grass, absolutely — but we shouldn't have to choose between a harmful internet and no internet at all.... youtube.com/shorts/qppgrmv0INQ

Camille Francois on creating a safer online environment

YouTube video by Columbia SIPA

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ROOST OSS Community Manager @cassidyjames.com is at #FOSSY in Vancouver through Sunday! FOSSY runs Aug 6–9 at UBC, hosted by the Software Freedom Conservancy. Our tools are free, open source, and self-hostable. The latest Osprey ships ATProto plugins. Come say hi! roost.tools/blog/osprey-...

Another day at the Crimes Against Children Conference. Time well spent with folks from Cinder and Thorn, and demoing Coop, the world's first free, open source review and enforcement system any org can self-host, with NCMEC reporting built in. Nobody solves this alone. #CACC2026

I’m headed to FOSSY and Fedicon in BC, Canada in just a couple of short days! I look forward to catching up with folks, learning a bunch, and chatting about both @roost.tools and @gnome.org. Come find me! #FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #Fedicon #Fedicon2026

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Getting ready to submit a pretty dope panel to GDC 2027 (yes, already!). I have panelists from big, medium, and little organizations coming together to talk about why open source safety tools are awesome. There’s absolutely at least a couple of names you’ll recognize. 👀 Hopefully it's accepted! 🤞

Kronk: Oh Yeah, It's All Coming Together

Alt: Kronk: Oh Yeah, It's All Coming Together

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ROOSTERs @julietshen.bsky.social & @kristinalvandi.bsky.social are at the Crimes Against Children Conference #CACC2026. We work w/everyone (platforms, nonprofits, vendors) to make detection, review, & reporting tools widely available so all organizations can study, modify, & use them. Come see us!

Still thinking about everyone we met at #TrustCon. So here's a nudge: we're hiring 🐓 Engineers to build open source safety tools protecting 360M+users, and a marketing mgr to help that work reach people. Everything we ship is public & free for platforms to study, modify, use. roost.tools/careers

I swear I have a real job… I’m home after #TrustCon where @roost.tools was EVERYWHERE. We presented in 6 sessions across 3 days, largely thanks to @julietshen.bsky.social. Even when we weren’t in a session, we got countless shout-outs from T&S pros encouraging folks to adopt our tools.