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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 25/09/2026

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. 👀

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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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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 25/09/2026

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?

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 22/09/2026

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

Screenshot of the ROOST community site. It reads “Meet us: These are the people building ROOST projects in the open.” Below the text are 80+ GitHub avatars of contributors.

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 22/09/2026

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

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ROOST @roost.tools · 22/09/2026

We’re so grateful for your work, @thisismissem.social!

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 21/09/2026

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. 😊

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ROOST @roost.tools · 21/09/2026

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.

github.com

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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ROOST @roost.tools · 17/09/2026

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

ROOST Head of Product Juliet Shen speaking at Marketplace Risk in NYC.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 14/09/2026

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!

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Statistics for roostorg/coop

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Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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

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ROOST @roost.tools · 11/09/2026

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

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ROOST @roost.tools · 04/09/2026

When it comes to using open source, teams have to decide whether to self-host (and keep full control of the data and infrastructure) or use a vendor-managed version. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there is no right answer! It depends on a team's existing infrastructure, data requirements, and capacity.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 04/09/2026

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...

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Releasing and consuming open source: Hatching your own OSS trust & safety project

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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ROOST @roost.tools · 04/09/2026

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?

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 04/09/2026

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… 👀️

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ROOST @roost.tools · 04/09/2026

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!

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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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ROOST @roost.tools · 02/09/2026

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.

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Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 25/08/2026

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...

developers.openai.com

CSAM guidance | OpenAI API

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

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ROOST @roost.tools · 19/08/2026

The voice safety classifier supports 30 languages and checks for profanity, asking for PII, harassment, sexual content, dating and romantic, discriminatory speech, illegal and regulated content, and disruptive audio. github.com/roostorg/mod... You can test it out here! huggingface.co/spaces/Roblo...

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model-community/roblox-voice-safety-classifier at main · roostorg/model-community

Making open safety AI models accessible and beneficial to the safety community - roostorg/model-community

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ROOST @roost.tools · 19/08/2026

The PII classifier looks for both signs of SHARING PII and REQUESTING PII. These different signals can mean different things in a safety context, and this model was trained on Roblox’s anonymized internal text datasets labeled by experts and AI generated conversations github.com/roostorg/mod...

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model-community/roblox-pii-classifier at main · roostorg/model-community

Making open safety AI models accessible and beneficial to the safety community - roostorg/model-community

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ROOST @roost.tools · 19/08/2026

Sentinel is a similarity-based detection system built on a general-purpose language model that can find rare needles in haystacks. Especially useful for grooming detection, where suspicious messages might be within a long conversation that’s mostly benign. github.com/roostorg/mod...

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model-community/roblox-sentinel at main · roostorg/model-community

Making open safety AI models accessible and beneficial to the safety community - roostorg/model-community

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ROOST @roost.tools · 19/08/2026

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...

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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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ROOST @roost.tools · 18/08/2026

The Mistral team will be at RMC office hours to share more about their model and answer questions September 2nd! Come ask us anything github.com/roostorg/mod... For more details and to get information on how to join, visit our Github here: roostorg.github.io/community/me...

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model-community/shieldstral at main · roostorg/model-community

Making open safety AI models accessible and beneficial to the safety community - roostorg/model-community

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ROOST @roost.tools · 18/08/2026

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...

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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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ROOST @roost.tools · 18/08/2026

Not sure why the preview image didn’t work here. 🤔 Looking into it!

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ROOST @roost.tools · 18/08/2026

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

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T&S Across the Fediverse: ROOST at FOSSY 2026

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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ROOST @roost.tools · 13/08/2026

That's why ROOST exists -- to build online safety tools & put them back in the open, free for any organization to study, modify & use -- reclaiming the principles of openness and decentralized innovation that built the internet in the first place. roost.tools/blog/buildin...

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Building Safety Infrastructure in the Open

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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ROOST @roost.tools · 13/08/2026

In '93 CERN gave the web to humanity. No license, no owner. Today's opaque era is a blip in the internet's timeline & it's the blip our online safety tools were born into. But none of that is inevitable.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 13/08/2026

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

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Camille Francois on creating a safer online environment

YouTube video by Columbia SIPA

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ROOST @roost.tools · 07/08/2026

And for anyone at #FOSSY who's interested in getting more involved with ROOST, visit our website: roost.tools/careers

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Careers | ROOST

Join the team at ROOST and help build open source safety infrastructure.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 07/08/2026

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-...

Photo of ROOST head of OSS community pictured at FOSSY, a conference in Vancouver.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 05/08/2026

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

ROOST Head of Product Juliet Shen demoing open source safety tool called Coop at a conference.

Photo of representatives from Thorn, ROOST, and Cinder.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 05/08/2026

Open weights, Apache-2.0, policy-driven safety model? 🤩 We’re happy for fellow travelers to be releasing more accessible tools for safety. We look forward to digging into Shieldstral more and potentially working more closely with Mistral here; it seems like a perfect fit for our Model Community!

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 05/08/2026

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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FOSSY 2026 | Home

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 05/08/2026

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! 🤞

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Kronk: Oh Yeah, It's All Coming Together

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

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ROOST @roost.tools · 04/08/2026

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!

ROOST Head of Product Juliet Shen at the ROOST booth at the 38th Crimes Against Children Conference.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 29/07/2026

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

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Careers | ROOST

Join the team at ROOST and help build open source safety infrastructure.

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Cassidy James @cassidyjames.com · 24/07/2026

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.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 23/07/2026

That's a wrap on TrustCon 🐓 3 days, 6 sessions, 1 launch (Osprey 1.1.0!), many chicken hats. Favorite moment: non-engineers building working moderation rules in our workshop — safety tooling you can study, modify, and use. One year of Coop & Osprey. Just getting started.

ROOST team members smiling together at TrustCon 2026 in San Francisco.

Discord and ROOST hosts speaking at a Happy Hour.

Hallway conversations at TrustCon. Two men speaking.

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ROOST @roost.tools · 22/07/2026

Final day of #TrustCon. We saved the hands-on stuff for last. 1 PM: ship your own T&S tooling with Coop + Osprey (incl. today's 1.1.0). No-code path or run it locally. Your practice labels land on real posts right here on @bsky.app. 3 PM: AI Can't Touch This: Where AI actually helps T&S Say hi!

📸L to R: Juliet Shen, Cassidy James Blaede, Juan Mrad, Anne Bertucio, Camille François

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