embody.tools — the Collection

embody.tools is the public home for Specimens: transparent TouchDesigner networks you can inspect, copy, and drop straight into your own project. Where a typical "download this .tox" is an opaque binary, every Specimen is a TDN network — human-readable YAML you can read before you run, and paste into any TouchDesigner .toe running Embody.

The site is built on Astro + Cloudflare Workers and is fully browsable without an account.

What's here

• The Collection — browse Specimens, inspect their node graph in the browser, and copy a Specimen's TDN to your clipboard ("embody it").
• Submitting a Specimen — share your own network. Every submission is capability-scanned before it goes live.
• Accounts — a free account (email + password, or GitHub) lets you submit and react. Browsing needs no account.

How "embody it" works

1. On a Specimen, hit embody it — its TDN is copied to your clipboard.
2. In a TouchDesigner project running Embody, the clipboard watcher sees it and prompts to drop it in as a new COMP — no keyboard shortcut needed. See Clipboard Auto-Paste.
3. Community Specimens are imported inert by default — Execute DATs disarmed, expressions neutralized, IO bypassed — so a pasted network can't run anything until you choose to enable it.