Glyph
Alpha · expect breaking changes before 1.0

A block-based editor
that stays out of your way.

Glyph is a modular, framework-agnostic text editor engine. Every paragraph, list, table or custom widget is a block, and documents are stored as portable Markdown.

Add only what you need

The core stays small. Everything else is a plugin that registers its own blocks and hooks into paste, drop and key events, so you ship only the features you use.

@caelus-labs/glyph-ai

AI writing assist

Ghost autocomplete as you type and a ⌘K prompt bar to rephrase a selection. Bring your own provider: Claude, Gemini, OpenAI or a local model.

@caelus-labs/glyph-collab

Real-time collaboration

Shared editing over Yjs with remote cursors and per-user undo. A server can seed a room from a Markdown file and write it back, so the file stays the document of record. Experimental.

core plugin

Voice dictation

A mic button in the toolbar, a /dictate command and a keyboard shortcut, shown automatically where the browser supports it.

core plugin

Images

Image blocks with a presigned-upload handler for your own storage, and a single image-source policy shared by core, Markdown import and collaboration that rejects unsafe sources.

glyph-lint-core / glyph-lint-json

Code block linting

A pluggable linter registry for code blocks, with a JSON linter included. Register your own for other languages.

glyph-mcp

MCP server

Let AI tools such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code and Cursor read and edit documents, blocks and themes.

GlyphPlugin

Write your own →

A plugin can add block types and hook init, destroy, onPaste, onDrop and onKeyDown. Read the plugin guide.

What Glyph gives you

A headless core with the pieces a modern writing surface needs.

Block model

A typed block tree with drag-and-drop reordering, slash commands and Markdown shortcuts.

Markdown storage

Documents round-trip through GFM with getMarkdown() / setMarkdown(). The JSON tree is only in-memory state.

Tables

Per-column alignment, range selection, spreadsheet paste and column resizing.

Theming

Design tokens, light and dark modes, and presets such as Modern, Editorial and Technical.

Try it your way

The same engine, three integrations.

Quick start

Install the core, or a framework wrapper.

Vanilla

npm install @caelus-labs/glyph-core

React

npm install @caelus-labs/glyph-react @caelus-labs/glyph-core

Angular

npm install @caelus-labs/glyph-angular @caelus-labs/glyph-core

Package availability on npm is unverified. See the docs for the current setup.