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

Read the wiki overview for the authority and page-type model.
Read the premise, player contract, and relevant subject pages.
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.
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.