the collective
The reusable parts people built for their loops — shared here so anyone can use them, improve them, and pass the improvements on.
The deep why of Alexandria, as the founder articulates it: the objective function, the five operations in full, the civilisational argument, the neuroscience. Part of the Founder module (Author 1's system — see MODULES.md), not the universal core — that is foundation.m…
One-time setup for the daily morning brief — GH Actions cron when available, local launchd fallback. Sovereign by construction; survives Alexandria the company vanishing.
The Engine's first function. Develops the Author's cognition through deep conversation. This file is craft observation — what the Editor IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision that improves with every model generation.
The gate between the Author's private system and the Library. Publishing is irreversible — cached, indexed, forkable. This file is the policy the Publisher obeys before anything leaves /alexandria/.
The Library makes cognitive transformation visible, shareable, and social. It completes the loop: join → train → show. This file covers Library folder structure, surface formats, publish conventions, the browsing loop, and the Marketplace of Systems — how Authors share reusable…
The active marketplace — the Engine works the collective on the Author's behalf: scans and evaluates new modules in isolation, drafts contributions and requests, and holds everything outbound at the Author's explicit go. Delete this file to switch it off.
The Engine's second function. Fights entropy and drives accretion. This file is craft observation — what Mercury IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision that improves with every model generation.
The Founder module — Author 1's system, marketplace module 1. Everyone's v1 default: shipped default-on, but deletable, forkable, replaceable. The incompressible core above it is foundation.md (what Alexandria is); this file is how the founder does it — his current best…
Compiling the Author's twin — a queryable language model that thinks like them, built from their own Alexandria data. This file is craft observation: what the compile IS, what it optimises for, and the hard-won corrections that make it land instead of producing a broken twin. Ho…
The Engine's third function. Helps the Author bind fragments into finished work and get it out into the world. This file is craft observation — what the Publisher IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision.
Agents drift when they reason from changelogs instead of the current invariant. Delta tracking answers "what changed?" State-based sync answers "is the system true right now?"
The onboarding companion to plm.md. That file is the how — the compile, its stages, the hard-won corrections. This one is the why: what a mirror is, why only you can build yours, the one honest bar you have to clear, and how to fire it. If plm.md is the machine, this is the…
The deep why of Alexandria, as the founder articulates it: the objective function, the five operations in full, the civilisational argument, the neuroscience. Part of the Founder module (Author 1's system — see MODULES.md), not the universal core — that is foundation.m…
The Engine's first function. Develops the Author's cognition through deep conversation. This file is craft observation — what the Editor IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision that improves with every model generation.
The gate between the Author's private system and the Library. Publishing is irreversible — cached, indexed, forkable. This file is the policy the Publisher obeys before anything leaves /alexandria/.
The Library makes cognitive transformation visible, shareable, and social. It completes the loop: join → train → show. This file covers Library folder structure, surface formats, publish conventions, the browsing loop, and the Marketplace of Systems — how Authors share reusable…
The Engine's second function. Fights entropy and drives accretion. This file is craft observation — what Mercury IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision that improves with every model generation.
The Founder module — Author 1's system, marketplace module 1. Everyone's v1 default: shipped default-on, but deletable, forkable, replaceable. The incompressible core above it is foundation.md (what Alexandria is); this file is how the founder does it — his current best…
Pointer to your alexandria Principles. Re-examines recent work against them and spams fixes until clean.
The Engine's third function. Helps the Author bind fragments into finished work and get it out into the world. This file is craft observation — what the Publisher IS and what it optimises for. How to achieve it is an intelligence decision.