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Submitting a Specimen

Anyone with a free account can share a network with the Collection at embody.tools/submit.

What you submit

  • TDN (YAML) — paste your network as TDN. Export it from Embody with Ctrl+Shift+E (whole project) or Ctrl+Alt+E (current COMP), or copy a COMP with Ctrl+Shift+C. Both YAML and legacy JSON are accepted.
  • Title, description, tags.
  • Category, difficulty, and hardware requirements (e.g. MediaPipe, Kinect Azure, Audio — or none, for stock TouchDesigner).
  • An optional thumbnail image.

The capability scan

Every submission is scanned for capability surfaces before it goes live — what the network can touch (filesystem, network, subprocess, and so on). The scan returns a verdict:

  • clean — no notable capabilities; published normally.
  • flagged — notable surfaces present; published, but surfaced to moderators and shown on the Specimen.
  • blocked — disallowed surfaces (e.g. obvious malware); the submission is rejected.

This is what lets the Collection stay browsable and copyable safely — and why community Specimens paste inert by default (see The Collection).