Foundation
Design documents, conceptual frameworks, and proven patterns that formed the basis for ecoPrimals — the thinking behind the running system.
These pages document the design reasoning and conceptual frameworks that were written while ecoPrimals was being built. Now that NUCLEUS runs on live hardware with 135000+ tests passing across {{ config.extra.totals.total_primals | default(value=“15”) }} primals, these pages serve as historical context rather than active documentation.
Looking for what’s running? Start here:
- Lab — science evidence and experiments
- Architecture — live operational documentation
- Products — deployed compositions
- Get Started — deploy on your hardware
Proven Design Documents
Foundation-marked pages within active sections. These concepts are proven and no longer evolving — the running system demonstrates them better than any document can.
Browse foundation pages within:
- Architecture — 29 design documents (coordination, transport, deployment models)
- Methodology — 10 frameworks (AI constraints, mentoring models, publication theory)
- Products — 4 retired/absorbed product descriptions
- Technical — 4 grant/teaching appendices
Complete Sections
These sections are complete bodies of work, accessible at their original URLs:
- Outreach — partnership invitations and community briefs (17 pages)
- Audience — guides for PIs, students, and builders (8 pages)
- Collaborators — collaboration models (4 pages)
- Glossary — ecosystem terminology
- guideStone — self-certifying publication infrastructure (7 pages)
- Vision — long-term ecosystem vision (3 pages)
See also: Backstory for the thesis, philosophy, and narrative.