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README: a world's expressiveness is its affordance catalog; a fresh world knows only Speak

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Start with those two documents, then `cargo doc -p ghostlight --open`.
**Populate the algebra first.** The kernel owns the component operations; a world owns its
affordance catalog, the verbs its actors can attempt. A fresh world knows one: the built-in
Speak, which records an utterance and changes nothing. Until your world declares affordances
(at genesis, by patch, or through elaborators) for moving, trading, taking, deciding and so on,
every intent a model voices lowers to speech or to a recorded gap, and the prose built on that
will be thin no matter how good the model is. The Aetheria verse genesis
(`crates/ghostlight/src/verse/genesis.rs`) declares its grammar's verbs, and today they still
only record the act; their effects are the next phase.
## Elaborators
An elaborator is a model session, confined to one jurisdiction of the world, that
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defects are open (`notes/ghostlight-verse-map.md`, probed 2026-10-09), its
storyteller is a small local model by default, and a live run with a hosted model
waits on an operator key. An agent that runs it as a game master and finds the
narration incoherent has measured the model, not the kernel. Sign-in is
narration incoherent has most likely measured an empty affordance catalog or the model,
not the kernel. Sign-in is
Heimdall's, so it does not serve an anonymous visitor.
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