Phillip Tarrant
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Design spec for the §11 canon log, plus origin seeds as thin initial-state
overlays over a single static world. Three layers (world content / origin seed /
runtime canon log), the in/out boundary (numeric Luck never enters the AI
payload, §7), field-level schemas, new-game construction order, turn-to-turn
maintenance, and JSON storage validated on both client and api.
Folds content/npcs and content/quests under content/world/; adds
content/world/{locations,items} and content/origins. fallback/ kept outside
world/ (authored prose, not id-referenced).
Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-09-canon-log-schema-design.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# /content/origins — starting-state seeds
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Thin authored files, one per starting point. An origin is an **initial-state
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overlay** on the static shared world (`/content/world`): where the player begins,
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the opening situation, and seeds for dispositions, inventory, starting quest, and
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character-creation constraints. Values and id references — never maps or personas.
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At new-game the player picks an origin; code constructs the runtime canon log
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from origin + world content + character creation. See the spec in
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[`/docs/canon-log.md`](../../docs) (design under
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[`/docs/superpowers/specs`](../../docs/superpowers/specs)).
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## Scope (§17)
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Schema supports **N** origins; the POC authors **one**. One world, one map, fixed
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NPCs — origins change only the player's starting point and situation. More
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replayability, flat authoring cost.
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## Fields (summary)
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`id` · `display_name` · `description` · `start_location_id` · `situation[]` ·
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`opening_facts[]` · `disposition_overrides{}` · `inventory_grants[]` ·
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`start_quest_id` · `build_constraints{}`
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`humiliations` are never seeded — they are earned in play (§7/§9). Validated
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against `origin.schema.json`; every id must resolve in `/content/world`.
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