# manifest.yaml — Machine-readable index of the Prompt Atlas (Kronos Edition)
#
# Minimal loader (Python):
#   import yaml, pathlib
#   m = yaml.safe_load(pathlib.Path("docs/prompt-atlas/manifest.yaml").read_text())
#   for ch in m["chapters"]:
#       prompts = yaml.safe_load(pathlib.Path("docs/prompt-atlas") / ch["prompts"]).read_text())
#       # … register prompts, embed prose into CoLearningMemoryStore, etc.
#
# Anchors below correspond to <a id="…"></a> tags in PROMPT_ATLAS.md.

version: 1
edition: "Kronos"
year: 2026
canonical: "PROMPT_ATLAS.md"
companion_root: "docs/prompt-atlas/"
license_note: |
  The author's prose is © DaScient, LLC. The companion scaffolding (manifest,
  glossary, expansions, prompt YAMLs, diagrams, appendices) is part of this
  repository's contribution and is released under the same terms as the rest
  of the repo (see LICENSE). See atlas_respect.md for attribution policy.

front_matter:
  - id: front-matter
    title: "Front Matter"
    anchor: "#front-matter"
  - id: foreword
    title: "Foreword — Alfredo M. Tadaya"
    anchor: "#foreword"
  - id: preface
    title: "Preface — For the Leaders of the Recursive Age"
    anchor: "#preface"
  - id: age-of-prompts
    title: "The Age of Prompts — AI as Compass, Mirror, and Forge"
    anchor: "#age-of-prompts"

parts:
  - number: I
    title: "Prosperity and Purpose"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-i-prosperity.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-i.md"
    chapters: [1, 2]
  - number: II
    title: "Culture and Creativity"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-ii-culture.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-ii.md"
    chapters: [3, 4]
  - number: III
    title: "Science and Discovery"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-iii-science.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-iii.md"
    chapters: [5, 6]
  - number: IV
    title: "Psyche and Philosophy"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-iv-psyche.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-iv.md"
    chapters: [7, 8]
  - number: V
    title: "Intergalactic Horizons"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-v-intergalactic.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-v.md"
    chapters: [9, 10]
  - number: VI
    title: "Resilience and Survival"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-vi-resilience.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-vi.md"
    chapters: [11, 12]
  - number: VII
    title: "The Playground of Imagination"
    diagram: "diagrams/part-vii-playground.md"
    expansion: "expansions/part-vii.md"
    chapters: [13, 14]

chapters:
  - number: 1
    slug: profits-with-integrity
    title: "Profits with Integrity"
    anchor: "#ch1-profits-with-integrity"
    part: I
    prompts: "prompts/ch01.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch01-profits-with-integrity.md"
    themes: [profit, regeneration, integrity, antifragile, ROI]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 2
    slug: economics-as-ecology
    title: "Economics as Ecology"
    anchor: "#ch2-economics-as-ecology"
    part: I
    prompts: "prompts/ch02.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch02-economics-as-ecology.md"
    themes: [ecology, biodiversity, biosphere, GDP-alternatives, rights-of-nature]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 3
    slug: ai-aesthetics-frontier
    title: "The AI Aesthetics Frontier"
    anchor: "#ch3-ai-aesthetics-frontier"
    part: II
    prompts: "prompts/ch03.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch03-ai-aesthetics-frontier.md"
    themes: [aesthetics, art, planetary-imagination, interspecies]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 4
    slug: storytelling-across-civilizations
    title: "Storytelling Across Civilizations"
    anchor: "#ch4-storytelling-across-civilizations"
    part: II
    prompts: "prompts/ch04.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch04-storytelling-across-civilizations.md"
    themes: [myth, narrative, oral-traditions, synthetic-myth]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 5
    slug: quantum-bridges-and-cosmic-noise
    title: "Quantum Bridges and Cosmic Noise"
    anchor: "#ch5-quantum-bridges-and-cosmic-noise"
    part: III
    prompts: "prompts/ch05.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch05-quantum-bridges-and-cosmic-noise.md"
    themes: [quantum, relativity, unification, cosmic-noise, interpretability]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 6
    slug: biology-life-and-beyond
    title: "Biology, Life, and Beyond"
    anchor: "#ch6-biology-life-and-beyond"
    part: III
    prompts: "prompts/ch06.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch06-biology-life-and-beyond.md"
    themes: [biology, synthetic-bio, evolution, consciousness, post-biological]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 7
    slug: ai-as-the-souls-mirror
    title: "AI as the Soul's Mirror"
    anchor: "#ch7-ai-as-the-souls-mirror"
    part: IV
    prompts: "prompts/ch07.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch07-ai-as-the-souls-mirror.md"
    themes: [psyche, archetypes, therapy, surveillance, mirror]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 8
    slug: ethics-of-conscious-machines
    title: "Ethics of Conscious Machines"
    anchor: "#ch8-ethics-of-conscious-machines"
    part: IV
    prompts: "prompts/ch08.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch08-ethics-of-conscious-machines.md"
    themes: [consciousness, personhood, rights, hard-problem, uncertainty]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 9
    slug: martian-republics-and-alien-treaties
    title: "Martian Republics and Alien Treaties"
    anchor: "#ch9-martian-republics-and-alien-treaties"
    part: V
    prompts: "prompts/ch09.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch09-martian-republics-and-alien-treaties.md"
    themes: [governance, sovereignty, algorithmic-rule, first-contact]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 10
    slug: information-as-cosmic-currency
    title: "Information as Cosmic Currency"
    anchor: "#ch10-information-as-cosmic-currency"
    part: V
    prompts: "prompts/ch10.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch10-information-as-cosmic-currency.md"
    themes: [information-economy, compression, memory-guardianship, wormhole-ledger]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 11
    slug: preparing-for-collapse-and-renewal
    title: "Preparing for Collapse and Renewal"
    anchor: "#ch11-preparing-for-collapse-and-renewal"
    part: VI
    prompts: "prompts/ch11.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch11-preparing-for-collapse-and-renewal.md"
    themes: [resilience, collapse, renewal, sentinel, atlas-of-renewal]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 12
    slug: designing-permanence
    title: "Designing Permanence"
    anchor: "#ch12-designing-permanence"
    part: VI
    prompts: "prompts/ch12.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch12-designing-permanence.md"
    themes: [permanence, long-now, archives, adaptive-constitutions, stewardship]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 13
    slug: carnival-of-prompts
    title: "The Carnival of Prompts"
    anchor: "#ch13-carnival-of-prompts"
    part: VII
    prompts: "prompts/ch13.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch13-carnival-of-prompts.md"
    themes: [play, festivals, trickster, ritual, joy-as-strategy]
    prompt_count: 10
  - number: 14
    slug: wonder-as-survival-strategy
    title: "Wonder as Survival Strategy"
    anchor: "#ch14-wonder-as-survival-strategy"
    part: VII
    prompts: "prompts/ch14.yaml"
    expansion: "expansions/ch14-wonder-as-survival-strategy.md"
    themes: [wonder, awe, meaning, recommendation-systems]
    prompt_count: 10

closing:
  - id: epilogue
    title: "Epilogue — Toward the Recursive Future"
    anchor: "#epilogue"
  - id: postword
    title: "Postword by the Author"
    anchor: "#postword"

appendices:
  - id: A
    title: "The Prompt Compendium"
    path: "appendices/A-prompt-compendium.md"
  - id: B
    title: "Practical Exercises (Workbook Edition)"
    path: "appendices/B-practical-exercises.md"
  - id: C
    title: "Case Studies & Speculative Vignettes"
    path: "appendices/C-case-studies.md"
  - id: D
    title: "Glossary of Strange Futures"
    path: "appendices/D-glossary-of-strange-futures.md"
  - id: E
    title: "Reading & Resource Atlas"
    path: "appendices/E-reading-resources.md"
  - id: F
    title: "Atlas of Daily Prompts (a year of questions)"
    path: "appendices/F-daily-prompts.md"

# Cross-references into this repository's code so the Atlas is "augmented"
# beyond prose into living infrastructure.
repo_cross_links:
  macp_bus: "src/macp/bus.py"
  vector_memory: "src/vectorstore/qdrant_store.py"
  core_bridge: "server/core_bridge.py"
  ecl_trainer: "src/train_ecl.py"
  geometry_losses: "src/losses_geom.py"
  z3_tester: "src/testers/z3_tester.py"
  tracking: "src/tracking/__init__.py"
  config: "configs/ecl_llm_llm.yaml"

resources:
  glossary: "glossary.md"
  thematic_index: "index.md"

# 12-week downloadable course syllabus that uses Atlas chapters as weekly "quests."
# Marketed toward curriculum directors; free, openly licensed, LMS-importable.
syllabus:
  id: "twelve-quests"
  title: "The Prompt Atlas — Twelve Quests for the Recursive Age"
  weeks: 12
  root: "syllabus/"
  files:
    readme: "syllabus/README.md"
    syllabus: "syllabus/12-week-quest-syllabus.md"
    adoption_kit: "syllabus/instructor-adoption-kit.md"
    quest_cards: "syllabus/weekly-quest-cards.md"
    pitch: "syllabus/pitch-to-curriculum-directors.md"
  # Each week maps 1:1 to a chapter. Chapters 13–14 are reserved for the
  # optional Festival Week and the Capstone.
  quests:
    - week: 1
      chapter: 1
      title: "The Honest Ledger"
    - week: 2
      chapter: 2
      title: "The Economy as a Forest"
    - week: 3
      chapter: 3
      title: "The Mythwright's Apprentice"  # spec week: co-write a myth with an AI
    - week: 4
      chapter: 4
      title: "The Translator's Oath"
    - week: 5
      chapter: 5
      title: "Listening to the Noise"
    - week: 6
      chapter: 6
      title: "The Living Prompt"
    - week: 7
      chapter: 7
      title: "The Mirror that Argues Back"
    - week: 8
      chapter: 8
      title: "Citizen of the Machine"
    - week: 9
      chapter: 9
      title: "The Martian Constitution"
    - week: 10
      chapter: 10
      title: "Information as Salt"
    - week: 11
      chapter: 11
      title: "The Collapse Drill"
    - week: 12
      chapter: 12
      title: "Designing What Stays"