Ghostlight

Runtime pipelines

Session Zero and publication

  1. A Projector lowers permitted shared or private negotiation state.
  2. The persistent DM Persona speaks naturally with the players.
  3. The Session Zero Interpreter extracts only newly proposed typed changes.
  4. Material bargains remain unresolved until the exact owner accepts them.
  5. Evidence retrieval and the compiler produce an approval preview.
  6. Campaign, membership, contract, DM Persona, evidence, and seed digest publish atomically before the campaign becomes discoverable.

World compilation

  1. Retrieval planners formulate bounded Vault queries.
  2. Evidence relevance classifies direct seed evidence separately from background and excluded material.
  3. The compiler proposes local topology, actors, institutions, populations, clocks, facts, and civic machinery.
  4. Agency stages profile every non-player strategic subject and compile relations and doctrines.
  5. Deterministic validation checks topology, identity, evidence, knowledge, civic closure, and authority.
  6. Compatible missing detail may be reconciled on a private bounded workbench.
  7. The registry publishes the accepted seed as an empty-store creation transaction. Runtime models never gain a parallel creation path.

Foreground turn

  1. The speech-address resolver chooses exact co-present addressees.
  2. Each affected participant receives its own Projector and Persona appraisal.
  3. Direct addressees must speak or choose deliberate silence.
  4. The Interpreter lowers proposed intent into the closed action algebra.
  5. Mutation-scope preflight removes impossible effect lanes.
  6. The assessor decides possibility, DC, stakes, and outcome ceilings.
  7. The player accepts the exposed risk; the server rolls.
  8. An effect verifier checks that the chosen typed consequence follows from the attempted means and supplied authority.
  9. WorldKernel commits the whole result and event atomically.

Strategic wave

  1. Resolution demand weights geography, ideology, authority, economy, body or species, and information for the current horizon.
  2. The deterministic partitioner derives a connected cover under the active cell entitlement.
  3. Nemesis searches committed causal anchors and assigns exact responders that genuinely need a decision window. It may assign nobody.
  4. Every selected cell runs Projector → Persona → Interpreter independently and in parallel under a separate provider semaphore.
  5. Cell effect verification rejects actions that borrow another constituent’s knowledge or authority.
  6. The strategic outcome resolver proposes one bounded result per admitted action; a separate outcome verifier checks selective semantic risks.
  7. Optional individuation may name one person whose political work can no longer remain anonymous.
  8. WorldKernel validates the complete wave, advances time and clocks, commits state and events atomically, then refreshes public projections.

World elaboration

  1. A consumer scale intent and current canonical subject count derive the actionable-subject target and deficit.
  2. Realm complexity weights distribute that target; the active cell budget and provider concurrency remain separate controls.
  3. The elaboration scheduler dispatches titled workers in proportion to their user-controlled slider shares.
  4. Locality passes propose exactly one additive place, route, fact, institution, relation, or civic operation. Complexity passes propose one Gestalt fission or one grounded individual promotion against a distinct frozen parent.
  5. Complexity proposals run concurrently, then rebase only when their exact parent state is unchanged and serialize through WorldKernel. Successful commits are checkpointed individually; a retry replays only failed calls.
  6. Every title that committed work receives one bounded agentic compaction turn. Its narrative frontier is checkpointed beside deterministic commit ancestry, so provider-session eviction cannot erase or rewrite history.
  7. The driver recounts canonical active agency leaves and derives another round until the target cover ratio is met. Resolution then builds its disposable cell cover independently.

Newspaper

  1. The assignment editor queries the immutable public-event ledger and selects an issue shape, throughline, stories, evidence, and the best reporter for each assignment.
  2. Recurring in-world journalists write from individual beats, biases, source habits, voices, and blind spots. Their job is narrative, not factual admission.
  3. The copy desk performs one factual review and returns a complete checklist.
  4. The Night Editor receives the assembled page and that checklist once, repairs what it can while preserving the story, and closes at deadline.
  5. Deterministic provenance binds every factual assertion to exact committed sources. Errors found after close become correction memory for a later edition rather than an infinite rewrite loop.