Misaligned — the design corpus #

Misaligned is specified by the whole wiki, not by one master document. This file is the doorway into that corpus. It contains no unique game law.

Start here #

1. Read the wiki overview for the authority and page-type model.
2. Read the premise, player contract, and relevant subject pages.
3. For implementation work, follow the owning Type: spec page and its dependencies. The status board is wiki/process/specs.md; dispatch lives in wiki/process/ROADMAP.md.
4. For repository work, follow AGENT.md.

What “the spec” means #

The spec is the wiki as a whole. Page type says what part a page plays:

• Type: law defines durable intent and cross-system invariants.
• Type: spec defines one implementable system and its acceptance criteria.
• Type: knowledge records current-state facts that must stay honest.
• Type: log preserves history and never overrides the current design.

No page outside the wiki outranks that corpus. If two current pages disagree, the disagreement is a bug to resolve, not permission to choose whichever page is convenient.

Where the former monolith went #

The old DESIGN.md was split by subject on 2026-07-09. Its laws now live in wiki/vision/, wiki/gameplay/, wiki/mechanics/, wiki/interface/, wiki/art/, and wiki/process/. Its current-build snapshot lives under wiki/engineering/; its decision history lives under wiki/log/.

Use wiki/SUMMARY.md as the complete navigation manifest.