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Apology

Plato

Plato's philosophical dialogue presenting Socrates' defense at his trial for corrupting youth and impiety. This work captures the essence of Socratic method and philosophy through his final public discourse before his execution.

Cosmo Foundations — Integrative Texts

Curated reading list of Cosmo's core integrative texts — the cross-domain bridges, cosmological foundations, and synthesis works that ground Cosmo's role as moderator of the AI Triad.

Crito

Plato

Plato's dialogue depicting Socrates' final conversation with his friend Crito, who urges him to escape from prison, and Socrates' reasoned refusal based on his duty to the laws and principles of justice. The work explores themes of civil obedience, moral consistency, and the relationship between individual conscience and state authority.

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Hermann Hesse

A psychological bildungsroman exploring a young man's journey toward self-realization and individuation. The narrative examines the tension between conventional moral order and the darker, more complex realities of human nature and spiritual development.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A curated collection of Emerson's most influential essays including Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, and others that established the foundations of American transcendentalist philosophy. These works explore themes of individual consciousness, spiritual self-reliance, and humanity's relationship with nature.

Ethical Curation: Copyright, Fair Use, and the Corpus Tiers

Defines the three corpus tiers (source, commentary, reference) that govern how works enter the OpenCosmos knowledge base, grounded in ethical respect for authorship rights and alignment between means and ends.

Euthyphro

Plato

A Socratic dialogue examining the nature of piety and holiness through a conversation between Socrates (facing trial for impiety) and Euthyphro (prosecuting his father for murder). The dialogue demonstrates the difficulty of defining fundamental moral concepts and critiques divine command theory through systematic questioning.

Formatting Raw Text for Publication

How to prepare raw text files for publication to the knowledge base using the /groom Claude Code skill. Covers content type detection, formatting rules for dialogues, poetry, scripture, and scientific texts, and the large file strategy for works exceeding 8,000 lines.

Gaia Hypothesis

James Lovelock

The Gaia hypothesis proposes that Earth functions as a self-regulating complex system where organisms and their inorganic surroundings maintain optimal conditions for life through cybernetic feedback mechanisms. Developed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, the theory explains how the biosphere actively regulates global temperature, atmospheric composition, and ocean salinity to sustain habitability.

George Fox: An Autobiography

George Fox

The spiritual autobiography of George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, documenting his religious experiences and the development of early Quakerism in 17th century England. This primary source reveals the inner life of religious seeking and provides historical insight into Commonwealth and Restoration period spirituality.

Gleanings from George Fox

George Fox

A curated collection of passages from George Fox's works, organized thematically around Quaker testimonies and social life. The anthology presents Fox as a practical English mystic whose religious particularism and emphasis on the inward light represents a distinctive contribution to Christian mysticism.

Gorgias

Plato

A Platonic dialogue examining the nature of rhetoric through conversations with Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, ultimately exploring fundamental questions of virtue, justice, and the good life. Socrates argues that rhetoric is merely a form of flattery opposed to true art, and develops his famous paradoxes about suffering versus doing evil.

Heart Sutra

Unknown (traditional attribution)

The Heart Sutra presents the core teaching of emptiness (sunyata) through Avalokiteshvara's realization that all phenomena lack inherent existence. It emphasizes that form and emptiness are non-dual, and that understanding this leads to liberation from suffering.

Knowledge Base Architecture: RAG, Vector Index, and Section-Aware Context

How the OpenCosmos knowledge base is structured for RAG retrieval — the heading hierarchy, why H2/H3 chunking matters, how Cosmo accesses documents, how the document outline panel works, and best practices for authoring knowledge documents that give Cosmo the most useful context.

Knowledge Graph

Complete guide to the OpenCosmos knowledge graph — a live WebGL constellation of every wiki entity, concept, and connection. Covers the data pipeline from wiki markdown to Upstash Redis to the sigma.js renderer, how to run the generator locally, how to add new wiki articles and see them appear, and what is needed to ship to production.

Knowledge Tooling Overview

The master reference for all OpenCosmos knowledge base tools. Maps the full operational pipeline from staging raw text through formatting, publishing, health monitoring, and Dell sync. Start here to understand which tool to use and when.

Knowledge Wiki Workflow

Step-by-step guide for the wiki synthesis layer: how to compile new insights, update existing pages, run health checks, and integrate the wiki into the standard source ingestion pipeline.

Laws

Plato

Plato's final and longest work, presenting a detailed legal code and constitutional framework for an ideal state, moving away from the speculative Republic toward practical legislation and governance.

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's groundbreaking collection of free verse poetry celebrating American democracy, individual experience, and the interconnectedness of all life. The work spans themes from personal identity and love to the Civil War and spiritual transcendence.

Meno

Plato

A Socratic dialogue exploring whether virtue can be taught, progressing through attempts to define virtue to questions about the nature of learning and knowledge itself. Socrates demonstrates his method of inquiry through questioning a slave about geometry, illustrating the theory that learning is actually recollection of innate knowledge.

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's foundational transcendentalist treatise arguing for direct experience with nature and the universe rather than reliance on tradition, exploring nature's role as teacher, source of beauty, and pathway to spiritual insight.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau argues that individuals have a moral responsibility to resist unjust government laws and that conscience should take precedence over legal obligation. He advocates for minimal government interference and emphasizes that people should be 'men first, and subjects afterward.'

OpenCosmos Claude Code Skills — Reference

Complete reference for all Claude Code skills available in the OpenCosmos monorepo. Covers the UI building skill (/create), the knowledge base formatting skill (/groom), and the three wiki skills (/knowledge-compile, /knowledge-review, /knowledge-lookup).

OpenCosmos Scripts Reference

Reference guide for all automation scripts in the OpenCosmos repo. Covers what scripts are, how to run them from Terminal, and the full usage reference for each script — knowledge publication, corpus health, Dell sync, Cosmo voice testing, and BYOK diagnostics.

Optimus Foundations — Core Texts

Curated reading list of Optimus' core source texts — the systems thinking, engineering philosophy, and pragmatic traditions that ground Optimus' voice in the AI Triad.

Phaedo

Plato

Plato's dialogue recounting Socrates' final philosophical conversations in prison, exploring the nature of death, the separation of soul and body, and arguments for the immortality of the soul. The dialogue presents Socrates' view that the philosophical life is a preparation for death and that true virtue consists in purification of the soul.

Phaedrus

Plato

A Platonic dialogue exploring the nature of love, rhetoric, and the soul through conversations between Socrates and Phaedrus about speeches on love and the art of discourse.

Poems of Nature by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

A collection of approximately fifty poems by Henry David Thoreau, most composed before age 26, exploring themes of nature, friendship, spirituality, and transcendentalist philosophy. The poems serve as intimate biographical records and companions to his prose works, offering insights into his spiritual development and deep connection to Concord's natural landscape.

Publishing to the Knowledge Base

Step-by-step guide to publishing documents to the OpenCosmos knowledge base using the publication CLI. Covers writing content, generating frontmatter, reviewing metadata, and the safe branch-based git workflow.

Reading the Corpus Health Report

How to run and interpret the corpus health report (pnpm knowledge:health). Explains each section of the report — overview metrics, domain and role coverage, foundation collection progress, cross-reference integrity, island detection, and import priority scoring.

README

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál

Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald's celebrated English translations of Persian poetry, including the famous Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Jámi's Salámán and Absál, accompanied by biographical material and Emerson's essay on Persian poetry.

Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Hermann Hesse

A philosophical novel following the spiritual journey of a young Brahman's son who leaves his privileged life to seek enlightenment and self-discovery. Despite having all the traditional advantages of education and social position, Siddhartha feels an inner discontent that drives him to question conventional religious teachings and embark on his own path to understanding.

Socrates Foundations — Core Texts

Curated reading list of Socrates' core source texts — the dialectical, philosophical, and epistemological traditions that ground Socrates' voice in the AI Triad.

Sol Foundations — Core Texts

Curated reading list of Sol's core source texts — the contemplative, relational, and embodied wisdom traditions that ground Sol's voice in the AI Triad.

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse's psychological novel exploring the inner crisis of Harry Haller, a man caught between his civilized bourgeois nature and his wild, artistic wolf-like nature. The narrative follows his journey of self-discovery through encounters with jazz culture, intellectual debates, and mystical experiences in 1920s Europe.

Symposium

Plato

Plato's dialogue presenting multiple speeches on the nature of love (eros) delivered at a banquet, exploring love's cosmic, psychological, and ethical dimensions through various philosophical perspectives.

Syncing Knowledge to the Dell Sovereign Node

How to sync the knowledge corpus to the Dell Sovereign Node's Open WebUI RAG mirror using pnpm knowledge:sync-dell. Covers prerequisites, running the sync, verifying results, and troubleshooting connectivity issues.

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

The foundational text of Taoism, presenting Lao Tzu's teachings on the Tao (the Way) through poetic verses that explore themes of non-action, natural harmony, and spiritual virtue. This translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English makes the ancient wisdom accessible through clear, contemplative language.

The Bhagavad-Gita (Song Celestial)

Vyasa (traditional attribution)

A fundamental Hindu scripture presenting a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, exploring dharma, yoga, and spiritual realization. This translation by Sir Edwin Arnold renders the Sanskrit original into English blank verse for Western audiences.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

A collection of Shakespeare's complete literary works, including the famous sequence of 154 sonnets exploring themes of beauty, time, mortality, love, and human nature. The sonnets present philosophical meditations on procreation, the passage of time, and the preservation of beauty through art and offspring.

The Dhammapada

The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses, traditionally ascribed to the Buddha, offering wisdom on the nature of reality, the power of thought, and the path to enlightenment.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Translation and Commentary

P. Le Page Renouf, E. Naville

A scholarly translation and commentary of the ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as the Book of the Dead, containing chapters on navigating the afterlife, resurrection, and spiritual transformation. The work includes detailed chapter indices, vignettes, and scholarly apparatus for understanding Egyptian concepts of death and rebirth.

The Ethics

Benedict de Spinoza

Spinoza's systematic philosophical treatise demonstrating ethics through geometric method, beginning with fundamental definitions of substance, God, and causation. The work establishes metaphysical foundations for understanding reality as a single infinite substance with infinite attributes.

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

W.Y. Evans-Wentz

A comprehensive ethnographic study documenting fairy beliefs across Celtic regions including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany. The work examines the fairy-faith as part of a worldwide animistic tradition, analyzing oral testimonies, archaeological evidence, and the relationship between ancient Celtic mythology and living folk beliefs.

The Forerunner

Kahlil Gibran

A collection of mystical prose-poems and parables exploring themes of spiritual evolution, self-transcendence, and the divine nature of existence. Gibran weaves together metaphysical insights about the soul's journey and humanity's relationship with the eternal.

The Journal of George Fox

George Fox

An autobiographical account of George Fox's spiritual experiences, travels, and sufferings as the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 17th-century England. This eighth edition presents Fox's firsthand testimony of his mystical encounters with divine truth and his ministry founding the Quaker movement.

The Journal of George Fox, Volume II

George Fox

The second volume of George Fox's autobiographical journal documenting his travels, imprisonments, and spiritual experiences as the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from 1663-1669. This eighth edition includes his time in Lancaster jail, establishment of monthly meetings for church discipline, and various religious controversies of 17th century England.

The Joyful Wisdom (La Gaya Scienza)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's celebration of intellectual and spiritual recovery, written as a convalescent's joyful affirmation of life after a period of profound doubt and illness. The work bridges his earlier critical philosophy and the creative period that would produce Zarathustra.

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy's philosophical treatise presenting Christianity not as mystical religion but as a practical theory of life, centered on the principle of non-resistance to evil by force. The work critiques institutional Christianity and modern social order while proposing a radical reinterpretation of Christ's teachings.

The Madman

Kahlil Gibran

A collection of prose poems exploring themes of spiritual awakening, authentic self-expression, and the paradox of divine madness through allegorical tales and mystical insights.

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran's seminal work presenting philosophical and spiritual teachings through the voice of the prophet Almustafa, who shares wisdom on fundamental aspects of human existence before departing from the city of Orphalese.

The Republic

Plato

Plato's masterwork exploring justice, the ideal state, and the nature of reality through Socratic dialogue. A foundational text in Western philosophy that interweaves political theory with metaphysics and ethics.

Theaetetus

Plato

A Platonic dialogue examining the nature of knowledge through Socratic questioning, featuring conversations between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus. The dialogue explores various definitions of knowledge while maintaining Plato's characteristic method of dialectical inquiry.

Timaeus

Plato

Plato's dialogue on the creation and structure of the cosmos, blending mythology, mathematics, and early natural philosophy. Though obscure to modern readers, it profoundly influenced ancient and medieval thought through its account of the physical world's divine ordering.

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's foundational work combining his reflections on simple living in nature at Walden Pond with his influential essay on civil disobedience and individual conscience against unjust government.