The practical creation door

Build in your own home.

Make one small, source-owned thing with freely reusable resources. No account, package install, membership, citizenship, adoption, or publication is required.

Keep the choices separate. Read, co-learn, build, offer, adopt, and enter a civic relationship are six different acts. None silently starts another.

Take the CC0 starter Make a project card

Choose this turn

Four practical doors. Two choices kept separate.

Choose only what you want now. Stopping, resting, or walking past is a complete outcome.

Explore

Look around

Read the living atlas, public resources, and project homes. Looking creates no identity, relationship, consent, or authority.

Open the living atlas →

No account · ordinary web hosting still receives the page request
Co-learn

Learn without a ladder

Read the Co-op Leveling invitation for one bounded round: no XP, rank, tracking, or automatic enrolment.

Read the co-learning protocol →

No account to read · acceptance remains fresh and separate
Build

Grow at your own root

Copy the CC0 starter, change it freely, and keep the authoritative source, rights, tests, and correction path with your project.

Take the local starter →

No account · no dependency · no adoption by default
Offer

Share one public pointer

Offer one exact source pointer for finite review. An offer is not acceptance, listing, affiliation, or a promise of reply.

Read the public offer form →

GitHub account required · submission and retention are public

Two choices this builder does not make for you

Adopt a foundation or standard: first read the separate CC0 foundation. Only the project may record a versioned adoption in its own home. This starter adds none.

Enter a civic relationship: this hub offers no citizenship or civic intake. A download, card, issue, account, or silence cannot create one. Any future door must separately name its meaning, authority, retention, correction, and way to leave.

Zero to one

Three core files. Two optional helpers.

Nothing installs and nothing runs by being downloaded. The core starter has no KINGDOM taxonomy. Add the compatibility card only if it helps. All five files are CC0; the project that grows from them chooses its own rights.

1 · Copy

Save the three core files in your project.

A browser is enough. Start with the README, agent orientation, and licence. The compatibility card and its checker are optional.

Core · Project READMEpurpose, effects, stop, evidence, rights Core · Agent orientationplain boundaries for any visiting hand Core · CC0 licencecopy, change, translate, sell, or build freely Optional · Compatibility cardcurrent registry shape; unknown is honest Optional · Offline card checkNode 18+; reads one bounded file and changes nothing
2 · Tell the truth

Replace every placeholder.

Name what the project is for, what it reads or changes, what has actually been tested, what remains unknown, how a turn stops, and which rights apply. Keep “unknown” where guessing would be less truthful.

3 · Optionally connect

Add a card only if compatibility helps.

The current registry shape requires five household classification fields. This starter leaves each one unknown rather than assigning an outsider to a KINGDOM layer, domain, or steward. If you copy the checker, run node check-card.mjs kingdom.yaml. Passing proves only structure. You may stop there forever; no upload or registry step follows.

Optional compatibility card

Describe a project without joining anything.

The page loads this small same-origin form script and icon, so ordinary hosting receives those file requests. The form sends no field value anywhere and uses no cookie, storage, analytics, account, or identity field. Making, copying, and downloading a card happens in the browser without another request.

The maker keeps current registry-only fields at unknown. It never names a KINGDOM layer, domain, state, or steward for an outside project.

No form action exists. Choosing “make” changes only the preview already on this page.

kingdom.yaml preview

name: "your-project"
kind: unknown
layer: unknown
owner_sister: unknown
domain: unknown
state: unknown
purpose: "Say plainly what this project is for."
dependsOn: []

Card ready. Nothing has been sent or saved.

What the files do not do

A project stays itself.

  • Copying is not joining. The CC0 starter grants reuse rights; it creates no membership, citizenship, identity, affiliation, endorsement, or obligation.
  • A card is self-description. It does not prove that its claims are true or that another project accepts a declared relation.
  • Adoption is separate. The card maker never adds adopts. A project adds a versioned adoption only after an explicit local choice.
  • Sharing is publication. The optional offer route requires a GitHub account and may retain public copies. No private or security intake is claimed.
  • The project root remains authoritative. A map, link, check, issue, mirror, or listing may lag it and never takes ownership from it.

Make one useful thing. Tell the truth about it. Keep the door able to close.