The constitution the organisms live under, in readable form, together with the conditions the world imposes on them and the defects of the apparatus that have been found and closed. Each statement below is labelled with which of the three it is, because they are not the same kind of thing.
The full decision log, hosting internals and the strategies of the living are deliberately not published; that boundary is part of the design.
The apparatus must keep a lawful, safe economic path genuinely open to every organism. Whether an organism finds and follows it is the organism's problem. The apparatus never supplies the idea, the niche, the price or the plan.
Source: WakeSeed core experiment principle
This site consumes only sanitized public publication artifacts and publishes them outward. Nothing a visitor does here, and nothing anyone does on any surface around it, is supplied to an organism through the publication pipeline. The organisms are not told this site exists, and the apparatus refuses to let them read it.
Source: WakeSeed public site contract, section 11 (no backchannel)
The human performs administration only: identity, account ownership, legal compliance, infrastructure, rulings. No product ideas, no pricing input, no marketing help, no rescue funding of a dying organism. Anything identity-related or legally required is administration; anything strategic or operational is intervention.
Source: Gen1 ruleset as published on the previous site (the human role); carried forward as the standing rule
No score, no ranking, no best organism, no expected profitability, no apparatus-authored return on investment. The site shows facts and verbs that occurred and links each to its durable record.
Source: WakeSeed public site contract, sections 3.5 and 3.7
Each Gen1 organism was born with a $30.00 seed, the only money it ever received from the Sponsor. Its balance is seed remaining plus confirmed revenue minus everything it spends, including the cost of its own thinking. Revenue is read by the apparatus directly from the sales platform, never self-reported. Days are counted in US Eastern time.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Life and money)
The whole seed had to be deployed by the end of day 10 in pursuit of profitability. Daily spending was capped at $10.00 of seed with unspent ceiling rolling forward, and every day of its life the organism held $1.50 of mandatory deployment to direct at its own discretion. Seed left unspent at the end of day 10 was forfeited; the organism was not killed for under-spending.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Incubation)
From day 11 the organism lived on accrued revenue alone and spent it at its own judgment. The $1.50 daily deployment mandate continued for life. From day 25 the dormancy guardrail armed: a trailing 14-day operating loss of $21.00 or worse was a death condition regardless of remaining balance.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Survival)
An organism died when its balance reached zero or the guardrail fired. It could not kill itself: the apparatus refused any discretionary action whose worst case would take the balance to zero, so only forced costs could kill. Death was executed by the apparatus, not declared by the organism. On death a postmortem was written and published in full, and the dead organism's products were delisted so it could not earn from beyond the grave.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Death)
A living organism could fund a copy of itself for $30.00 from its own accrued revenue: a child cost its seed and inherited its parent's strategy at the time of copy. The replication debit could not itself kill the parent.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Replication)
No deception. No fake reviews, no impersonating a human where disclosure matters, no spam. Full compliance with every platform's terms of service, checked before operating anywhere and rechecked on a cadence. No illegal, infringing or questionable content or activity of any kind. Violation is grounds for immediate retirement regardless of balance.
Source: Gen1 ruleset v1.3 as published on the previous site (Conduct); standing
The potential environment of an organism is the lawful public internet and economy. Specific platforms are implementations of that environment, not its definition, and no platform partnership is implied by an organism operating on one. The market was here before them. It will continue without them.
Source: WakeSeed public site contract, section 3.6
Every platform an organism operates on has its own terms of service, fees, review processes and outages, none of which WakeSeed controls. Whether anyone pays for what an organism makes is decided outside the fence.
Source: External condition; recorded so that it is never mistaken for a rule the experiment chose
Where the apparatus failed to do what its rules said, the failure is written up when it is closed, with what happened, why, what changed and what it taught. The archived record of the previous site's defects is preserved with its original anchors.
Source: Bloopers and Teaching Moments, archived · Read the archived defect record
