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SCOPE

Lightweight boundary for agents and contributors. Describes what is actually in design or delivery now. Counterpart: INTENT.md (stable / aspirational).

Last updated: 2026-07-31

One-liner

Product repo for GROUND — A Game of Bonds and Rivalry (first edition: DARVO): playtest edition datasets, rules content, and design history for a semi-cooperative conflict card game.

Core idea

GROUND trains conflict capability and relational evolution. DARVO is the most visible antagonist sequence; the larger subject is holding the shared frame— what problem we are discussing, who may define reality, and when self-security must outrank partnership.

In scope now

Edition content (active)

  • Maintain and refine the playtest dataset editions/ground-darvo-r0/ (GROUND-DARVO-CORE-0.1): actions, solutions, problems, scenarios, DARVO stages, GROUND/modes, tokens, relations, player mats, symbols, rules text, BOM, print manifest, design tokens, glossary.
  • Keep stable IDs suitable for layout templates, print merges, and later digital import.
  • Capture design rationale and exploration under history/.

Product orientation

  • INTENT / SCOPE / README that orient agents and humans.
  • Org-standard LICENSE (TRSL V1C1 preliminary candidate text).
  • State Hub registration and progress events for this repo.

Near-term design work (eligible without new product charter)

  • Balance and legibility fixes to the r0 playtest set from table play.
  • Glossary and rules-text consistency across CSV sheets.
  • Safety/safeguards language for the core set (non-clinical framing).
  • Edition packaging notes (zip, metadata, version bumps).

Explicitly out of scope now

Item Status
clay-borg engine / headless runtime / 3D tabletop Sister repo; not this product repo
Final graphic design, illustration, and production print files Beyond design tokens + textual dataset
Expert trauma/mediation review of all scenarios Required before publication; not yet gated as done
Additional reflex playbooks, character traits, personal problems Tracked as extensions in edition data; not core until r0 validates
Commercial Phase declaration / Trust Service registration TRSL text adopted org-wide; no live Phase yet
App store / marketplace shipping Premature

Current state

Dimension Status
Maturity Concept + playtest dataset (v0.1)
Implementation Textual/symbolic CSV edition bundle; no digital rules engine here
Stability Evolving; playtest-ready, not production-balanced
Usage Internal design / early playtest
License TRSL V1C1 preliminary candidate (see LICENSE)

Key artifacts:

  • editions/ground-darvo-r0/ — compact simultaneous-play set: 2–6 players, ~5–15 minutes, 5 rounds, 2 relationship slots per player; ~81 standard cards + mats/tiles.
  • history/260730-InitialExploration.md — full design exploration (four layers, behavioural gravity, hidden problems, alliances, safeguards).

How it fits

Concern Owner
GROUND rules & edition content ground-game (this repo)
Assimilating game/sim engine, headless run, tabletop projection clay-borg
Monetization framework / TRSL canon target-revenue
Work state and agent coordination state-hub

Relevant when

  • Designing or balancing GROUND editions
  • Preparing print or layout from stable card/token IDs
  • Importing edition packages into clay-borg or other digital clients
  • Writing product copy, safeguards, or learning-mode progressions

Not relevant when

  • Building engine infrastructure, physics, networking, or rendering
  • Implementing clinical or legal processes for real-world abuse cases
  • Generic Coulomb platform ops unrelated to this product

Terminology

Preferred Meaning
GROUND Game title and the constructive six-practice card family
DARVO Deny → Attack → Reverse sequence (binding when triggered)
Edition Versioned content package under editions/
Bond / Rivalry Active relationship states (limited slots per player)
clay-borg Sister engine repo; runtime, not content authority

Change policy

Update this file when delivery boundaries change (e.g. first external playtest cohort, clay-borg import contract frozen, expert review complete, or first commercial Phase declared). Do not weaken INTENT to match short-term packing.