Stof

What

Stof is an open-source data interchange format. We enable devs to work with all of their data formats, as one, with Stof. Make your data AI-ready by unifying your data formats into one interface to classify data, making it more readable for AI models and needing much less code.

Stof is efficient, governable, and accessible data that is much simpler to use, offering fine-grained control and sandboxed manipulation between computer systems without the need for additional application code, servers, and dependencies.

Why

The logic and cost involved in deciphering, unifying, and validating data entering and leaving computer systems are growing exponentially, becoming a bottleneck and limiting factor for next-generation federated applications and AI.

Stof drastically decreases the amount of application code it takes to do this by moving this logic into the data layer, creating a standard interface that can be used by all systems today for cheaper and higher-quality access to data, while improving application-level security, developer experience, and data governance.

Accessibility & Unification

Simplify data access, making it more straightforward to interact with diverse data sources and destinations. Stof works with other data formats instead of competing, meaning no matter what data format or schema you're interfacing with, Stof can help.

Code as Data

Add custom logic to Stof documents, leveraging their data for a more capable and robust data interface. Offer a safe way to send logic over the network, tying systems together at the data layer.

Validation

Ensure integrity by validating data using schemas, defined in Stof, reducing errors and maintaining consistency across applications.

Transformation & Structure

Dynamically manipulate data, enabling seamless transformations to meet specific application needs, such as converting units or restructuring data formats.

Orchestration

Stof is a logical layer between data sources and applications, capable of unification, transformation, validation, structuring, access control, and orchestration between systems, replacing fragile application code typically responsible for these tasks.

How

Get started today through our Github:https://github.com/dev-formata-io/stof

CLI

CLI is a standalone way to use Stof outside of an embedded environment.

cargo install stof-cli

Rust

The Stof Rust Crate is the most fully-featured way to embed and work with Stof. However, we are adding as many languages as possible to this list.

cargo add stof

TypeScript (JSR)

It is currently possible to use Stof from the browser and in JavaScript host environments through WebAssembly. In this context, Stof is not yet fully featured. Stof JSR