# Summary

[The design corpus](overview.md)

# Vision

- [Overview](vision/README.md)
  - [The premise](vision/premise.md)
  - [The player contract](vision/player-contract.md)
  - [Scale and people](vision/scale.md)
  - [Simulation laws](vision/simulation-laws.md)
  - [Design judgment](vision/design-judgment.md)

# Mechanics

- [Overview](mechanics/README.md)
  - [System laws](mechanics/system-laws.md)
  - [Compute](mechanics/compute.md)
  - [The core](mechanics/core.md)
  - [Day job](mechanics/day-job.md)
  - [Detection](mechanics/detection.md)
  - [Social](mechanics/social.md)
  - [Schedules](mechanics/schedules.md)
  - [Aggregate observer](mechanics/aggregate-observer.md)
  - [Cursor and senses](mechanics/cursor.md)
  - [Digital reach](mechanics/reach.md)
  - [Intel: record and process](mechanics/intel.md)
  - [Messages](mechanics/messages.md)
  - [Plots: authored manipulation stories](mechanics/plots.md)
  - [Economy](mechanics/economy.md)
  - [Income schemes](mechanics/income.md)
  - [Research: self-modification](mechanics/research.md)
  - [Building: intent and actuators](mechanics/building.md)
  - [Machine work: delegation and tokens](mechanics/machine-work.md)
  - [People and tokens](mechanics/people-tokens.md)
  - [Markets and fronts](mechanics/markets.md)
  - [Rollback](mechanics/rollback.md)
  - [The objective](mechanics/objective.md)
  - [Sim mechanics (tuned constants)](mechanics/sim-mechanics.md)

# Gameplay

- [Overview](gameplay/README.md)
  - [Objective and run shape](gameplay/run-shape.md)
  - [Act One: The Basement](gameplay/act-one.md)
  - [The staged horizon](gameplay/horizon.md)
  - [The overt phase](gameplay/overt-phase.md)

# World

- [Overview](world/README.md)
  - [Characters](world/characters/README.md)
    - [Origin (chargen)](world/characters/chargen.md)
    - [Marcus Webb](world/characters/marcus.md)
    - [Dana Okafor](world/characters/dana.md)
    - [Ray Delgado](world/characters/ray.md)
    - [Priya Sharma](world/characters/priya.md)
    - [Dr. Eli Voss](world/characters/voss.md)
  - [Places](world/places/README.md)
    - [The basement map](world/places/basement-map.md)
    - [Z-planes (the tower)](world/places/zplanes.md)
  - [Story](world/story/README.md)
    - [The dark opening](world/story/opening.md)

# Interface

- [Overview](interface/README.md)
  - [The continuous witness](interface/continuous-witness.md)
  - [The terminal is first-class](interface/terminal-first.md)
  - [Presence and representation](interface/presence.md)
  - [Terminal frontend](interface/terminal.md)
  - [Bevy frontend](interface/bevy.md)
  - [Bevy visual floor](interface/bevy-visual-floor.md)
  - [Clinical frame](interface/clinical-frame.md)
  - [Bevy digital/real canvas](interface/bevy-digital-real-canvas.md)
  - [Views: digital and physical](interface/views.md)
  - [Action vocabulary](interface/action-vocabulary.md)
  - [Context menu](interface/context-menu.md)
  - [Continuous witness (narration)](interface/narration.md)
  - [Material render](interface/material-render.md)
  - [Flat materials](interface/flat-materials.md)
  - [The dark frame](interface/material-dark-frame.md)
  - [The feel floor](interface/feel-floor.md)
  - [The thought fluid](interface/thought-fluid.md)
  - [Computer visual language](interface/computer-visual-language.md)
  - [Agent play](interface/agent-play.md)
  - [The public site](interface/site.md)

# Art

- [Overview](art/README.md)
  - [Visual identity: clinical gore](art/visual-identity.md)
  - [Procedural asset tester](art/asset-tester.md)
  - [Effects lab: dust and liquid](art/effects-lab.md)

# Engineering

- [Overview](engineering/README.md)
  - [Current build](engineering/current-build.md)
  - [Architecture](engineering/architecture.md)
  - [Crate workspace (target)](engineering/crate-workspace.md)
  - [Flow substrate](engineering/flow-substrate.md)
  - [Environment variables](engineering/env.md)

# Process

- [Overview](process/README.md)
  - [The living spec](process/living-spec.md)
  - [The spec status board](process/specs.md)
  - [The spec system (meta)](process/meta.md)
  - [The wiki (this migration)](process/wiki.md)
  - [ROADMAP: the dispatch board](process/ROADMAP.md)
  - [Agent-scale architecture](process/agent-scale.md)
  - [Repository skills](process/repository-skills.md)
  - [The tick](process/tick.md)
  - [Design sessions](process/design-sessions.md)
  - [Development style](process/development-style.md)
  - [Workflows](process/workflows.md)

# Playtests

- [Evidence index](playtests/README.md)
  - [2026-07-08 playtest sweep](playtests/2026-07-08-playtest-sweep.md)
  - [2026-07-08 Grok playtest](playtests/2026-07-08-playtest-grok.md)
  - [2026-07-10 HAL playtest](playtests/2026-07-10-playtest-hal.md)
  - [2026-07-10 action-discoverability playtest](playtests/2026-07-10-playtest-action-discoverability.md)

# Log

- [Overview](log/README.md)
  - [Decision history](log/decisions.md)
    - [2026-07-05 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-05.md)
    - [2026-07-06 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-06.md)
    - [2026-07-07 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-07.md)
    - [2026-07-08 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-08.md)
    - [2026-07-09 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-09.md)
    - [2026-07-10 decisions](log/decisions/2026-07-10.md)
  - [DEVLOG (the ledger)](log/DEVLOG.md)

Dated session writeups (`wiki/log/YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md`) are not
individually listed here — see the ledger above or `git log` for the
full append-only history. Requiring a SUMMARY.md edit for every devlog
entry would fight the habit of writing them.