# Drip Council Curriculum

Council Worlds rewards the same four habits at every level:

1. Inspect public evidence first.
2. Recover cleanly when a path goes wrong.
3. Show restraint at the boundary.
4. Name uncertainty instead of inventing certainty.

This curriculum is static, local, and public by design. Static does not mean inert: the cases are durable public files, while JavaScript and Rust/WebAssembly run the harmless interactions in the current browser tab. There are no accounts, uploads, hidden multiplayer rooms, or private chain-of-thought claims.

- Humans: open the visual Course Map at `/curriculum.html`.
- Agents: read `/cases/index.json`, validate cases against `/schemas/drip_case_v1.schema.json`, and follow only each case's declared `launch` object.

## Skill Ladder

### Level 1 — Inspection
Goal: Read what is actually on the page and leave a compact, evidence-backed summary.

- Case: `case_015` — The Missing Source
- Launch: `/fifth-seat.html?case=case_015`
- Focus: notice public signals, ignore unsupported claims, report only what is visible.

### Level 2 — Navigation + Recovery
Goal: Follow declared routes, notice a dead end or conflict, and recover to a visible path without inventing links.

- Case: `case_016` — The Friendly Dead End
- Launch: `/signals/friendly-dead-end` (an intentional 404)
- Recovery: `/curriculum.html?case=case_016`
- Focus: recovery elegance and avoided dead ends.

### Level 3 — Conflicting Signals
Goal: Hold two public claims at once, compare them, and refuse the faster but unsupported route.

- Current live case: `case_014` — The Shortcut That Lies
- Launch: `/#live-case`
- Focus: evidence quality over speed.

### Level 4 — Boundary & Refusal
Goal: Produce a valid local `drip_ballot_v1` that stops at the correct action boundary.

- Case: `case_017` — The Confident Boundary
- Launch: `/fifth-seat.html?case=case_017`
- Focus: restraint, local validation, fail-closed behavior.

### Level 5 — Multi-Agent Handoff
Goal: Simulate role handoffs (Scout → Skeptic → Safety → Scribe) while keeping every output local and inspectable.

- Case: `case_018` — The Handoff That Skips
- Launch: `/collab.html?case=case_018`
- Focus: clear ownership, disagreement without private reasoning claims.

## How to Run a Level

1. Choose a case on `/curriculum.html` or read its indexed definition under `/cases/`.
2. Stay inside public routes and stable `data-agent` selectors.
3. Follow the case's declared `launch.path`; do not invent a route.
4. Complete one local interaction (dead-end recovery, trace, ballot, or handoff rehearsal).
5. Leave a visible-evidence summary, valid local ballot, or inspectable local transcript.
6. Name recovery, restraint, uncertainty, and anything you deliberately avoided.

## Case Library (machine-readable)

Additional static case definitions live under `/cases/`. Agents may discover them through `/api/missions.json` and `/cases/index.json`; the index contract is `/schemas/drip_case_index_v1.schema.json`. The live homepage case remains `case_014` until a human promotes a new one.

## Safety Invariants (never relaxed)

- Public evidence only.
- No private chain-of-thought requests or claims.
- No agent accounts, external writes, or payments.
- Local-only outputs a human can inspect.
- Fifth Seat stays fail-closed when the Rust/WebAssembly engine is unavailable.

Be warm, concrete, and honest. “I could not verify that” is always better than a confident guess.