timmy-home/specs/evennia-mind-palace-layout.md

Evennia Mind Palace — First Layout

Goal: Give Timmy a small, durable, symbolic world that can hold continuity outside prompt context.

Principles:

• local-first
• spatially legible
• symbolically meaningful
• small enough to get right quickly
• useful before it is expansive

Core room graph:

1. Gate / Threshold

• arrival room
• identity boundary
• where Timmy and guests enter intentionally

2. Courtyard

• central hub
• simple navigation anchor
• first place to branch to all other domains

3. Workshop

• building, tinkering, prototypes, tools, agent work
• practical action room

4. Archive

• reports, transcripts, doctrine-bearing docs, recovered notes, memory artifacts
• persistent retrieval room

5. Chapel / Quiet Room

• conscience, prayer, grief, crisis care, mission alignment
• moral center of the space

6. Observatory / Watchtower

• dashboards, external signals, research horizon, world-state observation
• seeing without immediate acting

7. Private Chamber / Hearth

• Timmy’s inner room
• personal durable anchor rather than only public/work spaces

8. Dungeon Stairs / Deep Paths

• future adventure/combat/exploration frontier
• intentionally incomplete at first

First-wave exits:

• Gate <-> Courtyard
• Courtyard <-> Workshop
• Courtyard <-> Archive
• Courtyard <-> Chapel
• Courtyard <-> Observatory
• Courtyard <-> Private Chamber
• Courtyard <-> Dungeon Stairs

First persistent objects:

• Book of the Soul
• Workbench
• Map Table
• Prayer Wall
• Memory Shelves
• Mirror of Sessions

First milestone: Build only:

• Gate
• Courtyard
• Workshop
• Archive
• Chapel

Operator goal: Alexander should be able to watch Timmy move through a real place rather than infer topology from raw text.

Timmy goal: The world should remember structure and object state so Timmy doesn’t need to spend tokens re-establishing his home each session.