The Library
This is the knowledge corpus — the source texts, wisdom traditions, guides, and collections that ground Cosmo's responses. Nothing is hidden. Browse freely, read at your own pace.
Cosmo's knowledge corpus includes these curated gems of wisdom from the public domain. Open the left sidebar to explore and discuss with Cosmo, in the context of each work.
109 documents in the corpus
Margaret Fell (et al.)
A foundational Quaker declaration addressed to King Charles II and Parliament in 1660. Delivered by Margaret Fell, it outlines the Quaker commitment to nonviolence, religious liberty, and the "Inner Light," while defending the community against charges of sedition during the Restoration. It is a primary source for the Quaker Peace Testimony and the history of civil disobedience.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
OpenCosmos Editorial
An enriched biographical study of Ada Lovelace, tracing her development from a mathematically rigorous childhood to her visionary work on the Analytical Engine. It highlights her early 'Flyology' aviation research, her lifelong health struggles, her pursuit of a mathematical model for horse racing, and her conceptual bridge between poetry and calculation known as 'poetical science.'
William Shakespeare
A comedy by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio. It follows Helena, who is in love with the ungrateful Count Bertram.
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.
William Shakespeare
A pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare, written in 1599 and published in the First Folio. It features the famous 'All the world's a stage' speech.
Reference manual for the OpenCosmos Constellation — the WebGL knowledge graph rendered by @opencosmos/constellation (a React wrapper around @cosmos.gl/graph). Documents the six-tier hierarchy, every styling and LOD setting with current values, the data pipeline from corpus frontmatter through Upstash Vector to the rendered graph, and exact file locations for fine-tuning. Designed to be scannable by both humans and AIs.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain, based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline.
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.
Izumi Shikibu, Lady Sarashina, and others
A translated collection of intimate diaries written by aristocratic women during Japan's Heian period, offering rare insight into court life, Buddhist spirituality, and feminine literary expression in classical Japan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
Marcus Aurelius
The personal private reflections of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Meditations is a series of spiritual exercises and philosophical reflections composed for his own guidance. It explores themes of duty, impermanence, rationality, and the pursuit of inner peace within the framework of Stoic philosophy.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
Sojourner Truth
The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, born Isabella, documenting her life as an enslaved person in New York State and her journey toward freedom and activism. The narrative details the brutal conditions of slavery and her family's experiences under various masters.
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.
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.'
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).
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.
Curated reading list of Optimus' core source texts — the systems thinking, engineering philosophy, and pragmatic traditions that ground Optimus' voice in the AI Triad.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Omar Khayyám
Edward FitzGerald's celebrated English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, accompanied by biographical material on FitzGerald.
Jámi
Edward FitzGerald's translation of Jámi's Salámán and Absál, accompanied by Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay on Persian poetry.
William Shakespeare
The complete sequence of William Shakespeare's 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.
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.
Curated reading list of Socrates' core source texts — the dialectical, philosophical, and epistemological traditions that ground Socrates' voice in the AI Triad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
One of William Shakespeare's early plays, it is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, based on separated twin brothers.
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.
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.
Epictetus
The Enchiridion, or "Manual," is a summary of the basic ideas of Stoic philosophy and an introduction to the techniques required to transform philosophy into a way of life. Recordings by Arrian of the informal discourses of Epictetus, it focuses on the distinction between what is in our power and what is not, providing a practical guide for achieving inner freedom and tranquility.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It depicts the reign of King Henry IV and the rebellious Percy family.
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.
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 th-century England. This eighth edition presents Fox's firsthand testimony of his mystical encounters with divine truth and his ministry founding the Quaker movement.
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 th century England.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
A complete collection of the works of William Shakespeare, encompassing all plays, sonnets, and narrative poems. This collection serves as a hub for exploring universal themes of human nature, morality, time, and beauty through the lens of Renaissance literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A tragedy by William Shakespeare, first performed around 1607. It dramatizes the relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.
William Shakespeare
A tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus.
William Shakespeare
A tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in world literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A tragedy by William Shakespeare; it dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
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.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
William Shakespeare
A work by William Shakespeare, part of his complete collection of plays and poems. It remains a cornerstone of English literature.
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.
Margaret Fell
A groundbreaking 1666 treatise by Margaret Fell that provides a biblical justification for women's right to preach and speak in the church. It is one of the earliest and most influential works of feminist theology, reinterpreting Pauline prohibitions (1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy) and highlighting the central role of women as the first witnesses to the Resurrection.