WORLD.md

Your world, remembered everywhere.

AI can generate anything. It just can’t remember what it made yesterday. WORLD.md gives your characters, places, and style a memory that works across every tool.

The problem

Generative AI is brilliant at the first image and hopeless at the fortieth. Make a series — a short film, a campaign, a comic, a game’s concept art — and your world drifts. The character’s face shifts, the scar disappears, the product in shot three is last month’s design. Every session starts from amnesia, and the tools forget the moment you switch from one to the next.

The hard part was never making the image. It’s keeping the world consistent behind all of them.

The idea

Describe your world once, in plain files you own. Characters, objects, locations, the way it all looks, and the rules that must never break — each one a small Markdown file: exact facts on top, the feel in prose below. Any AI tool reads them; git remembers every version. Think of it as a design system, but for a world instead of an interface.

How it works

• Start in any AI chat — nothing to install. Paste one primer file into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Starting fresh? It interviews you and writes your world as you answer. Already have a script, notes, or a brief? Drop your material in and it drafts the world in one pass, flagging what it guessed.
• Compose per shot, not per world. A prompt takes the style, the canon, and only the entities this shot needs — plus one line of direction: “Mara at Pier 7 at blue hour, tightening a winch.” Tight profiles for Midjourney and image tools; the full world for long-context chat.
• When something drifts, fix the world — not the prompt. Spot the missing scar, tighten one canon line, commit. Every future prompt, in every tool, inherits the fix. The world gets stronger with every generation you run.
• Rules that never break. Mark a fact as canon — “the silver streak is always visible” — and it ships in every prompt at every compression level, in every tool.

Why it’s different

Your world doesn’t belong to any AI vendor. It’s plain text, in your repo, portable across every tool — the ones you use today and the ones that ship next year. Own your world, not a subscription to someone else’s copy of it.

Where it’s at

Alpha, and honestly so. The format, a read-only viewer, and per-tool composition work today; a CLI is planned, and the format will change. This is being tested against one question: do people making real creative work put their own projects into it and keep using them?

If that’s you — making an AI film, a series, a campaign, a world — the most useful thing you can send is what broke: what you re-explained, what drifted anyway, where you gave up. Blunt beats polite.