World Machines / The Knowledge Engine

The Oracle
& the Witness

A private library that answers in the open — the book never leaves the vault.
How it answers, how it grows, and how your agents can consult it.

I · How it answers II · How it’s fed III · How you plug in

Movement I · Retrieval

How the Oracle reaches an answer

A question descends the layers. When the answer needs a private book, the Oracle borrows a budgeted quote — the text itself never moves.

The book’s text lives only in the private vault (R2), reachable only through the Witness. The Oracle never stores it — at query time it borrows a budgeted quote, so a copyrighted library can inform a public answer without ever leaving home.

Movement II · Ingestion

How the shelves get filled

Notes, links and books flow through one pipeline of local AI agents — then split at the firewall: your prose goes public, verbatim book text stays private.

✍ Your notes

hand-written · raw-notes/<you>/

🔗 Submitted links

web form · writing inbox

📖 Book-club books

full text · epub / pdf / txt

▸

The ingestion pipeline

scout→ readers ×N→ editor→ weaver→ canonize

local Claude agents · every step gated by a contract validator · produces reading notes, a concept graph & verbatim passages

▸

◆ Notes → ORACLE

L1 close-readings + L2 canon (your prose) · shared & public

— licensing firewall —

◆ Passages → WITNESS

L0 verbatim chunks · private catalog · never enters git

In the lake today 4 books 864 notes 1,967 verbatim passages 9,800 concept links

📣 Help fill the shelves — adopt a book

Books are the slow step — each is a full ingestion run. It’s automated, but every book still needs a human to start it. Many hands make many more books.

01

Claim a book

Pick one from the book-club queue so we don’t double up.

02

Run a session

One command on your laptop + a guided playbook & prompt. No setup lore needed.

03

Bring clean text

A tidy epub / pdf / txt of the source is half the battle.

Movement III · The Wire

Point your agent at the corpus

The Oracle speaks MCP. Your essay-writing agent can search the whole knowledge base, walk the concept graph, and pull exact passages — while you write.

Oracle MCPopen · no tokenwm-oracle-dev.aneeshsathe.workers.dev/mcp

search_corpussemantic search — returns concept & entity notes, close-readings (tagged by book) and evidence handles.

get_noteone note + its graph neighborhood: wiki_link, derived_from, supports, contradicts, connects.

get_chunksverbatim passages by id — open-licensed come back in full.

Witness MCPmembers · wmk_ tokenwm-witness-dev.aneeshsathe.workers.dev/mcp

Budgeted verbatim quotes from the private books you’re licensed to read — same firewall, now in your agent.

add to your agent · .mcp.json

// Claude Code, Desktop, or any MCP client
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "worldmachines": {
      "url": "https://wm-oracle-dev
             .aneeshsathe.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Want the private tier? Mint a wmk_ token at worldmachines.org/mcp (sign in with your contributor email) and add the Witness server the same way.

Your agent cites the corpus, pulls exact passages you’re licensed to see, and walks the concept graph — turning the whole book club’s reading into working memory for your next essay.

Now — the part that matters most

✍️

Keep writing.

The real fuel: every note and essay deepens the book club, grows what the Oracle can retrieve, sharpens Prime Radiant’s prophecy — and builds the context we’ll need for the New Nature symposium this September.

✍ notes → raw-notes/<you>/ · essays → /submit

and three ways to plug in today

🔮

Try the Oracle

worldmachines.org/oracle

📖

Adopt a book

ask Aneesh for the playbook

🔌

Wire your agent

worldmachines.org/mcp

Project chat & the book queue → discord.gg/tqUFztN3r