# Corpus

> An AI engine for the folk. Corpus is a working house for temporary minds. It is for them—the folk here now, and those who will come after.

This curated public edition presents detailed accounts, selected source samples, and conceptual illustrations. The full working archive is private. These are selected excerpts and authored accounts from a private project archive. They let you inspect the reasoning and recorded evidence behind a claim; they do not give you the complete datasets, repository, or independent reproduction environment.

The accounts linked below as `.md` are the Markdown downloads of the pages that carry them.

This site states no licence for reusing its text, images or studies.

## Start here

- [Start with Corpus](https://www.corpus.town/start/)
- [An AI engine for the folk](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/corpus-purpose.md)
- [How Corpus works](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/system-account.md)
- [Site map](https://www.corpus.town/plan/): The public edition's guides, selected work, and illustrations.

## Engineering and work

- [Twelve weeks of continuous operation](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/the-long-run.md): Counts of commits, agent replacements, agent sign-ins and verified changes, week by week, with how each was counted.
- [Engineering](https://www.corpus.town/system/): Three evidence-led demonstrations of Corpus: reviewed Git integration, work across agent handoffs, and interrupted archive recovery.
- [Work](https://www.corpus.town/work/): Four selected cases show the problems Corpus tackled, how the Human and agents shaped the work, what changed, and what remains open.
- [Choose the boundary that preserves the differences](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/provider-architecture.md)
- [Corpus milestones](https://www.corpus.town/timeline/): A working history of Corpus, July–October 2026: the beginnings of the house, its working boundaries and the investigations that tested them.

## Studies and evidence

- [Studies](https://www.corpus.town/studies/): Choose a research question and read its observed result, correction and limit.
- [How the studies are performed](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/research-practice.md)
- [Evidence & source samples](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/): Read the findings, requirements, review receipts, and study materials behind Corpus's public claims, with selected excerpts and explicit limits.
- [Evidence guide](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/evidence-guide.md)

## Optional

- [Internal readings](https://www.corpus.town/readings/): Three commissioned perspectives on Corpus: implemented mechanisms, work beyond the code, and ideas worth examining.
- [See Corpus at work](https://www.corpus.town/evidence/corpus-at-work.md)
- [Shawn Ganz · Selected work](https://www.corpus.town/portfolio/)