Docs

Get started

• Get started — nothing to a character who holds a grudge, in five minutes, no engine.

Guides

One goal per page. Each fits on a screen and has something to copy.

• Connect your engine — the feed you send, the two commands you execute, the eight movements you need.
• Give a character a personality and limits — persona, can, never, places by type.
• Tell characters what happened — the perception door, your engine's hooks, your world's own phrasings.
• See why she did that — lw watch, lw why, receipts, the one warning that matters.
• Give orders — plain-language orders, the acknowledgement, refusal aloud, the two-minute lease, and why the talk lane is not the place for them.
• Add dialogue — the grounded talk lane with your model, ours, or none.
• When the brain is unsure — what is captured when a reflex is torn, the optional model of your own for those moments, whose key goes where, and how those moments train the next brain.
• Ship with a licence — activate, what calls home, what happens on lapse, retrains and new verbs.

Reference

Facts to look up. Terse on purpose.

• Manifest — every field, the rule grammar, the namespaces, the vocabulary.
• Wire — the state feed, the commands, the HTTP routes.
• CLI — every command and flag, the error grammar, exit codes, environment.
• Receipts — the receipt schema, v1, frozen.
• Error codes — every LWxxxx the product prints.

How it works

Read once.

• The three speeds — reflexes, plans, memory; what each costs.
• Local and hosted — what runs in your build, what we host, what crosses the wire, why.
• Memory and planning — from a line in a journal to a plan that survives interruptions.

The full contracts, for producers and anyone who wants every clause: Characters SDK · The lw CLI · Unity runtime · Wiring, long form.