logic-engine-experiment

“Cyclops Storm” Prolog

Prolog (PROgrammation en LOGique, “programming in logic”).

Open lab notes on using AI (mostly Claude Code) to help build a logic engine for science-fiction worlds. This is an ongoing attempt to “meet minds” with an AI over a sprawling logic-programming codebase and an unreasonable amount of coffee.
Aaron A. Reed: 50 Years of Text Games
Featured big idea: “Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of AI”
Reference: BSF2-IF Knowledge Base Engine repo (coming)

Docs:

Architectural comparison with SWI Prolog: a compare and contrast. Updated 03/13/2026.
KB Engine API and Design Document. Updated 03/13/2026.

Unit Tests:

Update 03/11/2026

Status (Highlights):

Feb, 17, 2025: “My Brief History of AI Coding,”. Medium.
Nov 14, 2025: “Marching to Nines with a Robot,”. Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Oct 17, 2025: “When Heuristics Bite Back,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Sept 28, 2025: “Fly-By-Wire Debugging,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Sept 18, 2025: “The Death of Prompt Engineering And Was Carl the Murderer?” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Aug 22, 2025: “Fly-By-Wire Coding with AI,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.

Harriet AI:

Oct 24, 2025: “Harriet’s Field Guide to Loops,”
Sept 26, 2025: “When Penelope Code Learned to Build,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Jul 18, 2025: “Firewalls and Kerosene,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
Jul 8, 2025: “Friends in Low Places,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.
June 23, 2025: “Vacancy.exe, Akiya.exe,” Nate’s AI-ish Substack.

(Featured tool:) The Spider

The Spider is a Claude Code implemented toolset that builds a representation of storyline by stepping from one event to another gleaned from prolog “databases.” The “spider’s eye” is a tool that reads the same event data and renders an interactive graph that lets you see which events in the story connect, how they cluster, and where the weakly connected gaps are. Here is an example prolog datafile that is also generated using scripts.

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Updated 12/28/2025.

Codebase Metadata Resources:

Source code metadata “codepack” Updated 01/09/2026.
The codepack file contains a distillation of the codebase generated by a python utility that Claude Code implemented. Think metadata. The algorithm and schema used is described in this document. Updated 12/14/2025.
The codepack feeds visualizations and analysis. The most recent quad-chart stack was generated from the codepack by another Python script we collaborated on together. Updated 01/09/2026:
The quad charts slice these metrics in different ways; see the “algorithm and schema” document for definitions (mentioned earlier). A sample Javascript quad chart stack is here. Updated 01/09/2026.