Start Here | Updated June 2026

A practical path into the Fractalish workbench.

If you are new to Fractalish, start with the public vocabulary, then move into the tools, examples, study guides, and working papers. Documents explain the framework. Traces, tools, datasets, and comparisons test it.

StatusEntry guide
AudienceNew readers, reviewers, contributors
PurposeReading and testing order
Core ruleEvery claim must travel with its trace.

Recommended order

  1. MCVA / AMCVA / HOLD for the core vocabulary and guardrails.
  2. Natural Math for the forward or generative layer.
  3. Tom Wessels study guide for a public-facing example of process memory preserved in form.
  4. Recovery Wake for a concrete candidate descriptor family.
  5. Reference Library and Commons for evidence packages, examples, and comparison lanes.
  6. Documents and Working Papers for the longer specifications, notes, and white papers.

What to look for

Look for cases where visible form preserves enough structure to support cautious comparison, descriptor extraction, and process-memory hypotheses. Also look for the cases where the honest output is AMCVA or HOLD instead of over-reading.

How to help

The best early contributions are clear proof-positive cases, proof-negative cases, better source metadata, sharper guardrails, cleaner study guides, and more traceable comparison bundles.

Contribute Documents and working papers