Status: Accepted
Date: 2026-05-25
Context#
The Mind Palace provides deduction, evidence chains, and accusation logic that connect cases and clues across all V5 cells. Treating it as a sixth cell would split ownership and dilute the five-cell product structure.
Decision#
Mind Palace is a cross-cell layer, not a sixth ruleset cell. It owns evidence graphs, deduction state, accusation gates, and cross-era linkage while consuming clues from Urban, Period, Frontier, Hunter, and Sci-Fi content.
Consequences#
- Mind Palace data persists across all per-cell save slots.
- Cell plugins can emit evidence without taking ownership of the global deduction graph.
- Product and test reporting keep the launch scope at five cells plus one cross-cell layer.