The working record behind the Foundry story.
Start with the story, then come here for the deeper rationale: the principles, architecture, Mold inventory, casting procedure, corpus approach, pipeline narrative, and infrastructure research that shape the public Foundry pages.
Foundry design records
The core rationale behind Molds, casting, corpus grounding, and source-to-target pipelines.
01 Guiding Principles The design pressure behind source authority, progressive disclosure, validation, portability, and corpus grounding. READ THE RECORD 02 Architecture Map A short map of the Foundry's major parts, boundaries, and focused architecture records. READ THE RECORD 03 Molds The axes a Mold buckets on, the boundary against reference content, and where the Mold set is still uneven. READ THE RECORD 04 Mold Spec The Mold authoring contract: source layout, which files may sit beside index.md, and who enforces it. READ THE RECORD 05 Compilation Pipeline How typed Mold references become target-specific cast artifacts with provenance. READ THE RECORD 06 Cast Walkthrough One real committed cast (discover-shed-tool) annotated end to end: every bundle file traced back through per-kind dispatch and _provenance.json. READ THE RECORD 07 Eval Philosophy Why eval.md is an abstract oracle and scenarios.md holds the concrete cases, and the eval/scenario/refinement split. READ THE RECORD 08 Corpus Integration How IWC grounding works without turning the Foundry into an upstream workflow mirror. READ THE RECORD 09 Harness Pipelines The source-to-target journeys that compose Molds, loops, and branch phases. READ THE RECORD
Project infrastructure research
Developer-facing evaluations and adjacent-project notes that shape how the Foundry is built, hosted, and integrated.
01 Comparisons Where the Foundry sits versus wikis, skill bundles, and the KB-to-skill landscape (MCP, Agent Skills, llms.txt, Corpus2Skill, RAG) — a dated snapshot. READ THE RESEARCH 02 Pattern Authorship Policy Developer-facing authorship rules for operation-named, corpus-grounded pattern pages. READ THE RESEARCH 03 Schema Packages Where a Mold IO schema lives, how cast resolves one through a schema note, and why there is no separate schema package. READ THE RESEARCH 04 Code Architecture Implementation components, dependency direction, entry points, and contracts across the Foundry codebase. READ THE RESEARCH 05 Content Model How Foundry notes, kinds, metadata, tags, links, references, and companions represent knowledge. READ THE RESEARCH 06 Build and Validation How authored Foundry source is checked, generated, cast, assembled, rendered, and kept current. READ THE RESEARCH 07 Repository Layout Where authored source, implementation code, generated artifacts, fixtures, and site files belong. READ THE RESEARCH
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