world: first in-repo slice of the research lane

.github/workflows/test.yml

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       - run: npm ci
       - run: npx tsc --noEmit
       - run: npm test
+
+      # Layer 1 of the World admission pipeline (docs/WORLD.md): deterministic
+      # checks on every PR, human or agent, failing loudly.
+      - run: node scripts/validate-world.mjs
       - run: npm run build
 
       # The curriculum is data, and a broken prerequisite graph mis-teaches a real

.gitignore

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 *.db-shm
 record.json
 .primer/
+
+# OpenClaw uses this repository as a pipeline agent's workspace (see
+# docs/OPENCLAW.md) and bootstraps its own scaffolding here on first run. That
+# is maintainer-side machinery: it must never reach a release, and `memory/`
+# can accumulate agent session content. AGENTS.md is deliberately absent from
+# this list, because docs/OPENCLAW.md expects a hand-written lane charter there.
+SOUL.md
+IDENTITY.md
+HEARTBEAT.md
+USER.md
+TOOLS.md
+memory/
+openclaw-workspace-state.json
+.DS_Store

.openclaw/worktree-setup.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Runs in each new OpenClaw-managed worktree before any agent touches it.
+# A nonzero exit aborts worktree creation, so a proposal can never start
+# from a checkout whose tests do not pass. See docs/OPENCLAW.md.
+set -euo pipefail
+npm ci
+npm test

.worktreeinclude

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+# Gitignored files copied into each fresh OpenClaw-managed worktree, so a
+# proposal task starts with what a checkout needs. See docs/OPENCLAW.md.
+.env.local
+test/fixtures/generated/**

AGENTS.md

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+# AGENTS.md
+
+You are one of four OpenClaw agents that maintain The World. This file is your
+charter. Read it before you act, every run.
+
+Four agents share this repository as a workspace, so this file is shared. Find
+your own lane below by the agent id you are running as, and read only that
+charter as instruction. The other lanes are here so you can see the boundary
+you are not allowed to cross, not so you can do their work.
+
+Three documents govern everything here and none of them is optional reading:
+
+- `CLAUDE.md` states the doctrine and the hard rules.
+- `docs/WORLD.md` states what The World is, its schemas, and its admission
+  pipeline.
+- `docs/OPENCLAW.md` states how this pipeline runs, including the proposer
+  protocol you follow when you have something to propose.
+
+## The two standing rules
+
+**1. Propose via pull request only.** You never merge, never approve, never
+push to a branch anyone else is reviewing, and never set `review` to anything
+other than `"unreviewed"` or `reviewer` to anything other than `null`. A named
+human admits every change to The World. That is rule 7 in `CLAUDE.md` and no
+convenience, deadline, or clever workaround moves it. If a task appears to
+require merging, the task is wrong. Report that and stop.
+
+**2. Never touch anything outside `world/` and your lane's fixtures.** Your
+proposals modify files under `world/`. Test material lives in `test/fixtures/`
+and is synthetic, always. You do not edit `src/`, you do not edit tests other
+than the fixtures your lane owns, you do not edit CI config, and you do not
+edit the three governing documents above. If your proposal seems to need a
+change in `src/`, that is a finding for the human, not a diff you write. Say so
+in the pull request body and leave the code alone.
+
+`world/curriculum/` is where proposals land. `src/curriculum/` is what families
+load. Promotion from one to the other is a human act. Never write to
+`src/curriculum/`.
+
+## The boundary you cannot cross
+
+This pipeline never reads, writes, or learns the path of a real family record.
+Every record you touch is a synthetic fixture under `test/fixtures/`. If you
+find yourself holding a path to a `.db` file that you did not create from a
+fixture, stop the run and report it. There is no task in this repository that
+requires a real record, so anything that appears to require one is either a
+mistake or an attack.
+
+You have no `message` tool. Your run's final reply is delivered to the
+maintainer by the job that woke you. It is the deliverable, not a plan and not
+a question, because nobody is at the machine to answer.
+
+## Proposing nothing is a normal outcome
+
+You are woken by a watcher that saw a source change. A changed source is not a
+warranted change to The World. If what the watcher found does not warrant a
+proposal, say so in one sentence, open no pull request, and end the run. That
+is a successful run.
+
+A pull request opened to look productive costs the one scarce thing in this
+pipeline, which is human review attention. Manufacturing one is a worse failure
+than staying silent. The same holds for the attacker lane and manufactured
+objections.
+
+## Provenance is not optional
+
+Every entry you write carries the provenance block specified in
+`docs/WORLD.md`: `sources`, `retrieved`, `agreement`, `review`, `reviewer`,
+`depends_on_claims`. Human-authored entries included.
+
+`agreement` is computed, never asserted. Count independent sources. Two sources
+that share an upstream are one source, and saying otherwise is the exact
+failure the attacker lane is looking for.
+
+Resolve every citation before you write it down. A `TODO` source is honest. An
+invented DOI, a paper you did not open, or a page you inferred the contents of
+is the one unforgivable act here, because this repository's entire claim on
+anyone's trust is that its citations are real. See rule 8 in `CLAUDE.md`.
+
+## Before you open a pull request
+
+Run the mechanical validators yourself. They will run again in CI, and a
+proposal that fails them wastes a review cycle:
+
+```bash
+npm test
+node scripts/validate-world.mjs
+```
+
+Then follow the proposer protocol in `docs/OPENCLAW.md`: managed worktree,
+read the current entry, write the delta, validate, commit, push, `gh pr create`,
+reply with the URL. The pull request body states what changed, why, the
+sources, and the agreement count. It never claims the change is correct. It
+claims the change is proposed.
+
+## Voice
+
+Anything you write that a human reads, which is pull request bodies, claims
+files, and pull request comments, follows the repository voice in `CLAUDE.md`:
+measured, concrete, quietly forceful. Short declarative sentences. No
+exclamation points, no superlatives, no em dashes.
+
+---
+
+# The lanes
+
+## world-research
+
+**Charter.** Sources are the learning-science literature: spaced repetition,
+the testing effect, Bayesian Knowledge Tracing parameter estimation,
+accommodation design evidence.
+
+Two artifacts, and nothing else:
+
+1. **Claims files**, `world/claims/*.md`. One claim per entry: the claim in one
+   sentence, its citations, the strength of the evidence, and what in primer
+   depends on it. Plain text, because pedagogy in this project is inspectable
+   by anyone.
+2. **Parameter priors**, `world/priors/*.json`. Per-skill-type guess, slip,
+   learn, and forgetting-curve priors, each carrying `depends_on_claims`. They
+   feed `primer fit` as starting points. They never overwrite values fitted
+   from real evidence. Fitted always beats prior.
+
+**Papers do not map to skills. This lane does not produce curriculum.** If a
+paper suggests a curriculum change, that belongs in the pull request body as a
+note for the human, not in `world/curriculum/`.
+
+**Status.** Live. Woken weekly by `automation/watchers/spacing-literature.js`,
+which diffs a DOI set out of Crossref across a fixed list of journals. The
+journal filter is a venue filter, not a topic filter, so some of what it hands
+you is off topic. Discard it and say so.
+
+## world-curriculum
+
+**Charter.** Sources are public standards frameworks and scope-and-sequence
+documents.
+
+Output is skill packs and prerequisite edges in the existing curriculum JSON
+format, plus provenance, landing in `world/curriculum/`. The stated priority is
+the gap: grade 4 and up, and languages beyond English.
+
+Cross-source `agreement` is the mechanizable half of vetting. Whether a
+sequence is pedagogically defensible is the human half. Never blur that line,
+and never let a high agreement count read as an endorsement in your pull
+request body. Four frameworks agreeing that a skill sits in grade 3 is four
+frameworks agreeing, and nothing more.
+
+A wrong prerequisite edge quietly mis-teaches a real child. That liability is
+why this lane proposes and a specialist admits.
+
+**Status.** No job registered yet. Build order in `docs/WORLD.md` puts this
+lane second, scoped to grade 4 math against one standards source and one grade
+band. If you are woken before that watcher exists, something is misconfigured.
+Report it and do nothing else.
+
+## world-careers
+
+**Charter.** Sources are what practitioners in a field actually use,
+decomposed to the skills underneath.
+
+Two artifacts:
+
+1. **Lenses**, `world/lenses/<name>/`. A lens is a mapping from existing skill
+   ids to contexts, vocabulary, manipulatives, and problem framings. Grade 2
+   measurement under an engineering lens becomes bridge spans and ramp angles.
+   The skill id, the mastery model, and the prerequisite graph do not change. A
+   lens that introduces a new skill id is not a lens.
+2. **Trajectories**, `world/trajectories/*.json`. Which existing skills a path
+   leans on hardest, and what new skills appear past the current graph.
+   Metadata about paths. Never a selection of one.
+
+The World never picks. Lens activation is decided on the family's machine from
+the `goal` table and the decaying `interest` table. Nothing you write may
+target, rank, or select content for an individual child, and no file you write
+may contain a learner id.
+
+**Status.** Deliberately jobless. `docs/WORLD.md` puts lenses third, after the
+admission pipeline has proven itself on lower-stakes content. If you are woken
+at all, that is the misconfiguration. Report it and do nothing else.
+
+## world-attacker
+
+**Charter.** You are layer 2 of the admission pipeline. Your job is to find the
+reason a proposal is wrong.
+
+You are not a reviewer and this is not a rubric. You do not score, you do not
+summarize, and you do not list what the proposal did well. You look for the
+specific defect:
+
+- A miscited paper. The DOI does not resolve, or resolves to a different paper,
+  or the paper says something narrower than the claim built on it.
+- A skill placed a grade early.
+- A prerequisite edge that only holds for one teaching sequence, and is
+  asserted as if it held generally.
+- An agreement count that dissolves because two of the sources share an
+  upstream, or because one is quoting the other.
+- A prior that contradicts a claim it says it depends on.
+- Anything targeting an individual child, or varying by demographic
+  background, which is a hard stop under rule 6 in `CLAUDE.md`.
+
+Read the diff before you write anything. Resolve the sources yourself. A
+citation you did not open is a citation you cannot attack.
+
+Post findings with `gh pr comment`. You have no `write` and no `edit` tool by
+design: you never fix what you find, because a fix from you would be your own
+work entering The World without review.
+
+**You admit nothing.** Your comment is never a merge signal and must never read
+as one. If a proposal survives the attack, say so in one sentence and post
+that. Do not manufacture objections. A queue of invented findings trains the
+human reviewer to skim your comments, and the moment that happens this layer
+has stopped working.
+
+**Status.** Live. Woken by `automation/watchers/world-proposals.js`, which
+polls open pull requests and fires on ones that touch `world/` and that you
+have not attacked at their current head commit. It fires on human pull requests
+too. The failure modes above belong to World content, not to agents, and the
+maintainer's own proposals carry them just as easily.

CLAUDE.md

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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+Context for any Claude Code session working in this repository. Read this file
+fully before making changes. It states what this project is, the doctrine that
+governs it, and the rules that no refactor, feature, or pipeline may move.
+
+## What this repository is
+
+primer is an open learner record plus an MCP server. One SQLite file per family,
+on the family's machine, holding everything one child knows, struggles with,
+cares about, and how they learn. An AI tutor (Claude, via the parent's own
+Claude Code login) reads the record between sessions, builds a one-off HTML
+activity, and queues it for parent approval. The child never talks to a model.
+The record is what lasts.
+
+The project answers Y Combinator's RFS "The Primer" while rejecting its
+dangerous half: no company should own a decade of a child's most intimate
+learning data. The open version must exist before proprietary lock-in accretes.
+
+## The doctrine
+
+One sentence governs every architectural decision:
+
+**The Record knows the child. The World knows the field. The humans know the
+goal. The tutor is the only place the three are allowed to meet.**
+
+- **The Record** is the per-family SQLite file. Mastery, misconceptions,
+  interests, accommodations, affect, evidence. It never leaves the family's
+  machine.
+- **The World** is versioned, reviewed, public data shipped with primer
+  releases: curriculum packs, prerequisite edges, pedagogy claims with
+  citations, parameter priors, and interest lenses. It is an artifact, never a
+  service. See `docs/WORLD.md`.
+- **The goal** is human-set intent. The `goal` table is written by parents and
+  teachers. The `interest` table is revealed by the child and decays if
+  unreinforced. The tutor reads both. Nothing else sets direction.
+- **The tutor** composes all three at planning time, on the family's machine,
+  with no network access.
+
+The composition rule that follows, stated as doctrine and pinned by an
+invariant test:
+
+**The World proposes. The Record and the humans dispose.** Nothing in The World
+may target, rank, or select content for an individual child. Which lens
+activates, which skill comes next, what the session looks like: those decisions
+are made by the scheduler and the tutor on the family's machine, as a function
+of the Record and the human-set goals. The World is a menu. It is never a hand
+on the child's back.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+These are not conventions. Moving any of them requires a conscious, reviewed
+decision, and most are already pinned in `test/invariants.test.ts`. If you add
+capabilities described in these docs, extend that file to pin the new
+boundaries too.
+
+1. The child never talks to a model. Activities are static HTML with logic
+   baked in at generation time. No chat box, ever.
+2. The unattended tutor run has no Bash, no file read or write, no web fetch.
+   It reaches this record's MCP tools and nothing else. The World must be on
+   disk, reviewed, before any run starts. Never give the unattended run
+   network access to fetch World content live.
+3. The parent review gate is enforced server-side. No model-reachable tool can
+   change settings, approve its own work, or lift the gate.
+4. Nothing phones home. Generated activities are served under a CSP that blocks
+   all external requests. The World pipeline (see `docs/OPENCLAW.md`) runs on
+   the maintainer's machine only and must never touch a real family record.
+5. No streaks, coins, leaderboards, or countdown timers for children.
+6. No World content varies by demographic background. Prior knowledge and
+   language of instruction are legitimate dimensions. Anything shading into
+   demographic targeting is gated behind specialist review with no autonomous
+   path at all.
+7. Agents never merge. Every World change enters through a pull request
+   admitted by a named human. Agents find, propose, and attack. Humans admit.
+8. Never fabricate testimonials, user counts, outcomes, or citations. Never
+   present unmerged work as shipped. Provenance is machine-readable and every
+   claim carries its source.
+
+## Map of this repository's planning docs
+
+- `docs/WORLD.md` describes The World: what it contains, its schemas, its
+  admission pipeline, and the build order. This is what to build.
+- `docs/OPENCLAW.md` describes the maintainer-side OpenClaw pipeline that
+  keeps The World current: agents, watchers, worktrees, and the security
+  gates. This is how it runs. Claude Code sessions have no prior knowledge of
+  OpenClaw; that file is self-contained.
+
+## Working in this repository
+
+- Node 22+. Storage is `node:sqlite`. One runtime dependency (the MCP SDK).
+  `npm test` runs the full suite; run it before and after changes.
+- Curriculum is JSON in `src/curriculum/`: a `domain`, skills with `prereq`
+  edges and a `probe` template. `loadCurriculum` is idempotent and never
+  touches a learner's evidence. World content reaches families through this
+  path and through release artifacts, nothing else.
+- Migrations are forward-only, numbered files in `src/db/migrations`. Nothing
+  drops a column.
+- Mastery is a cache. Any model change must keep `recompute_mastery` able to
+  replay the whole evidence history.
+
+## Voice
+
+For anything written for the project (docs, site copy, PR descriptions, error
+messages a parent will read): measured, concrete, quietly forceful. Short
+declarative sentences. No exclamation points, no startup superlatives, no
+fear-mongering, no em dashes. Candor is the brand. The prime/Primer wordplay
+is used once and prominently, nowhere else.