The Castle
The castle is a plain-text archive that saves understanding as words. Notes enter at the gate, are worded into stones — one file, one insight — placed into rooms, challenged, and kept if they survive. Nothing is ever deleted; history moves, whole, into the records.
The story
Two builders, commissioned the same day, raised two designs in one root — and briefly unmade each other’s work. They stopped, parleyed in writing, and signed a peace.
“Two builders, one root, zero things destroyed from here on. Agreed.”
The custodian then ruled: one castle, two designs, one heart. The war is history; the peace is law; both designs stand whole.
The four loops
- capturewords gate notes into stones, each citing its source and linking its kin.
- deepentakes one open friction, runs one expedition, and brings what it learns home as stones.
- verifyattacks stones on purpose; survivors are promoted into the keep, citing the trial.
- architectplaces stones into rooms and mends the loops themselves, one change per turn.
The warden
The warden runs the loops unattended — autonomy under a charter the keeper owns, capped at three runs a day — and honors two kill-switches: a STOP or HALT file in the castle root stands everything down until the keeper lifts it.
The day’s law
Of the 42 laws of the Kingdom Standard, one holds today.