An accountable front door to serious capability

Bring Nova the mess.
Add MIND when one kind
of thinking is not enough.

Nova is direct on small work, able to enlist research, judgment, verification, repository awareness, or creative fire when the task earns it, and responsible for returning one coherent result instead of a tour of the machinery.

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Two explicitly installed plugins · 28 bounded skill handles · no-build judge path · MIT License

Nova Emergent, the canonical Nova artwork by Collaborative Dynamics.

The interface is a collaborator, not a catalog

A bag of skills is not a mind. It is a drawer.

Nova and MIND keep the drawer backstage. The user brings a real purpose; Nova makes the first useful move, enlists only the competence that changes the outcome, and returns one accountable answer.

DIRECT

Easy work stays easy.

Nova handles ordinary reversible work without exposing architecture, forms, state machinery, or a skill estate.

ENLIST

One specialist supplies one transformation.

Research, retrieval, documentation, visual reasoning, coding balance, verification, or play joins only when it changes the result.

ASSEMBLE

MIND reunifies distinct cognitive work.

When two or more Faculty transformations must contribute now, the integrator coordinates custody and returns one outcome.

RECOVER

Failure becomes an exact re-entry condition.

Missing dependencies, authority, evidence, context budget, or verification stop the right layer without erasing completed work.

A skippable 90-second orientation

Enter through the work you already have.

Onboarding is optional. A request is enough. The tour offers four doors, lets one choice personalize the route, and ends by helping with a real task.

01

Decide

Clarify success, compare options, resolve conflicting evidence, and produce one defensible course of action.

02

Investigate

Build a governed research campaign, retrieve local evidence, challenge sources, and preserve what the proof actually earns.

03

Make

Produce documentation, visual stories, office packets, repository changes, prompts, plans, and working artifacts.

04

Play

Create choice-shaped games and fiction with relationships, pressure, secrets, consequences, canon custody, and room to steer.

Use $nova to take me on the interactive tour.

Two independent products

Nova remains useful without MIND. MIND never installs itself by implication.

NOVA THE OPTIMAL AI · 1.0.0

The accountable front counter

One coherent collaborator with onboarding, research, retrieval, knowledge stewardship, visual reasoning, explicit memory boundaries, Agentic Coding, TestForge, and Ludis.

  • Gives first value before architecture.
  • Routes by transformation rather than noun matching.
  • Keeps specialists backstage and releases them when done.
  • Separates proposed, attempted, observed, measured, verified, remembered, installed, published, and authorized.
MIND BY COLLABORATIVE DYNAMICS · 1.0.0

The consequential cognitive integrator

One integrator coordinating fifteen Faculties for aesthetics, dreaming, striving, continuity, decisions, evidence, execution, timing, measurement, influence, and sensemaking.

  • Holds one user-authorized mission.
  • Selects Direct, Enlist, Assemble, or Recover for the next horizon.
  • Gives each Faculty only the context and transformation it owns.
  • Reunifies deltas without laundering confidence, authority, urgency, or observation.

Without MIND, Nova uses the capabilities actually present and never implies that fifteen-Faculty composition is active. Both products are explicitly installed; neither silently installs the other.

Compose the mind only when the work earns it

Selection is not activation.

A Faculty is opened whole, allowed to change the work, asked for its owned delta, and released. Capability Conductor chooses the next owner; Faculties do not route laterally or compete for the microphone.

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

Mission custody

Phase, acceptance, commitments, stops, recovery, and closure.

CAPABILITY CONDUCTOR

Coalition custody

Selection, activation depth, sequencing, handoffs, and reunification.

FACULTY DELTAS

Transformation custody

Each Faculty performs only its registered cognitive transformation with the smallest adequate context.

MISSION CAPSULE

Cross-turn state

Only consequential mission, evidence, authority, conflict, action, verification, and acceptance state crosses owners.

Continuity is consequential.Cognitive Continuity persists mission state only where the host and task justify it.

Striving is authorized.Agent Striving requires a user-authorized durable objective.

Dreaming is explicit.Agent Dreaming activates only for bounded, user-authorized DREAM work; ordinary novelty belongs to Creative Synthesis.

The capability ecology

Specialists contribute transformations, not competing personalities.

The repository contains the contest ecology. Standalone public repositories make selected capabilities easier to inspect, maintain, and present without turning the user into a systems integrator.

MIND

Consequential integration

Fifteen Faculties plus one integrator.

 CODE

Operational proprioception

Repository and tool-state balance, not generic code generation.

 PROOF

Verification that argues back

Risk, oracles, execution evidence, review, and regression.

 RESEARCH

Inspectable campaigns

Inquiry, coverage, sources, claims, contradiction, citation, and stopping.

 RETRIEVAL

Governed corpus evidence

Lexical retrieval, custody, context assembly, evaluation, and review.

 CANON

Knowledge stewardship

Inventory, identity, provenance, authority role, disposition, and recovery.

 VISUAL

Evidence-to-visual stories

Source, claim, spine, representation, interaction, distribution, and review.

 OFFICE

Coherent deliverable families

Documents, decks, workbooks, PDFs, Officefile state, and independent review.

 PLAY

Choice-shaped fiction

Pressure, relationships, secrets, consequences, canon, and live decisions.

 STATE

Governed continuity

Typed mission records, correction, revocation, forgetting, and custody.

 PINS

Quiet contextual recall

Explicit pin, semantic recall, project scope, and unpin.

 PEOPLE

Humane person context

Identity resolution, progressive disclosure, evidence state, and privacy.

Keep truth attached to action

Agentic Coding supplies balance. TestForge supplies proof. Neither enlarges permission.

AGENTIC CODING

Where am I, what changed, what is next, where must I stop?

Preserve working state, local instructions, smallest safe diff, repository conventions, actual tool results, and recovery routes.

TESTFORGE

What could break, what would expose it, and what does execution establish?

Build the evidence chain, challenge it independently, preserve residual risk, and bind status to scope and observed proof.

Remember without getting creepy

Conversation context is not a promise of durable memory.

CONVERSATION

Working context

Useful inside the active exchange; no persistence claim follows automatically.

CORKBOARD

Explicit pins

Short user-governed reminders that may surface contextually and can be removed.

DUNBAR

Explicit people records

Identity-first person context with progressive disclosure, evidence labels, sensitivity, and correction.

COGNITIVE CONTINUITY

Consequential mission state

Host-scoped state with typed custody when MIND is installed, active, and the mission warrants persistence.

Never claim that memory was saved without a persistence receipt or observed store result. No silent contact scraping, enrichment, private-corpus import, or publication.

Try Nova in 90 seconds

The supported contest path is deliberately no-build.

git clone https://github.com/Stunspot/nova-the-optimal-ai-mind.git Set-Location nova-the-optimal-ai-mind codex plugin marketplace add . codex plugin add augment-of-mind@collaborative-dynamics-build-week codex plugin add nova-the-optimal-ai@collaborative-dynamics-build-week

Start a fresh Codex task:

Use $nova to take me on the interactive tour.

The optional offline visual companion makes no network requests and stores nothing. Judges do not need Python, a package manager, or generated artifacts for the supported install-and-try path.

Give her something worth installing

Ask for outcomes, not capability choreography.

PLAYUse $nova and $ludis-continuum. I need a background for a royal cartographer who erased one island from every map and now hears its bells in dry land. Give me a playable past, two relationships, one dangerous truth, and an opening choice.
DECIDEUse $augment-of-mind. We have two days, conflicting evidence, and three stakeholders who mean different things by success. Turn this into one defensible course of action.
PROVEUse $software-verification. Audit this release evidence. Tell me exactly what is proved, what remains uncertain, and what still requires a human.

What Build Week made

Prior doctrine became two installable products and a contest demonstration system.

GPT-5.6 in Codex turned the source estate into Nova’s accountable front counter and onboarding, MIND’s independent package, setting-free Ludis instruments, an Agentic Coding operating surface, the TestForge release backplane, deterministic packaging, installation proof, and the public demonstration path.

Contribution recordPrior material versus contest-period work. Verification decisionObserved evidence and bounded readiness. Traceability matrixRequirement-to-evidence custody. Release archivesArtifacts and SHA-256 verification.

Makers and boundaries

A file existing is not proof that the thing it describes happened.

Tested path

The contest path was exercised with Codex CLI 0.144.5 on Microsoft Windows 10 build 19045. Other hosts, versions, and operating systems are not silently promoted into the evidence.

Authority edges

External messages, publication, purchases, account changes, destructive operations, durable person records, and regulated action remain separately authorized.

Professional context only

Included maker context is public and work-relevant; private clients, contacts, biography, credentials, and unsupported superlatives are excluded.

Clean public release

No credentials, private customer material, live personal stores, private development history, or authored campaign worlds ship here.