{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0.0-public-snapshot",
  "id": "PRJ-MEN-001",
  "displayId": "MEN-001",
  "slug": "parallax-mendala",
  "name": "Parallax Mendala",
  "summary": "A modular, automated rotational grower designed for practical food resilience, education, and scalable local production.",
  "purpose": "A modular, automated rotational grower designed for practical food resilience, education, and scalable local production.",
  "regionId": "civic-commons",
  "projectType": "Food-resilience system",
  "status": "Exploring",
  "maturity": "Sprout",
  "evidenceClassification": "Exploratory",
  "visibility": "public-candidate",
  "canonConfidence": "Core",
  "launchTier": "Tier 1",
  "paths": [
    "build",
    "understand",
    "collaborate"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "food-resilience system",
    "food resilience",
    "mendala"
  ],
  "claimBoundaryVersion": "1.1.0",
  "claimBoundary": {
    "supported": "Full-size and portable Master Design Specifications, brochure visuals, initial cost thinking, and production-model questions have been documented.",
    "notClaimed": "Mendala does not claim verified yield, a fixed build cost, food-safety certification, commercial availability, perpetual operation, or suitability for every crop or jurisdiction."
  },
  "knownLimitations": [
    "No physical prototype or measured crop cycle is represented in the current record.",
    "Yield depends strongly on crop, cultivar, climate, light, disease, operator skill, and local conditions.",
    "Food-contact materials, electrical safety, water quality, and sanitation require engineering and regulatory review.",
    "Cost and production projections remain estimates until a prototype bill of materials and repeated grow trials exist."
  ],
  "currentState": {
    "summary": "Parallax Mendala is recorded as Exploring at the Sprout stage. The inventory currently marks 4 artifact lanes Ready, 2 Partial, and 2 Missing.",
    "maturityStage": "Sprout",
    "maturityStageIndex": 1,
    "note": "B3 Tier 1 room draft · Core canon · Exploratory evidence · public candidate"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "symbol": "✿",
      "title": "Rotates modular growth zones",
      "description": "Organizes planting, lighting, irrigation, filtration, and harvest access around a durable circular structure."
    },
    {
      "symbol": "⌁",
      "title": "Automates bounded routines",
      "description": "Uses local sensing and control for water, light, climate, rotation, and alerts while preserving manual override."
    },
    {
      "symbol": "▤",
      "title": "Records production evidence",
      "description": "Tracks crop, cycle, inputs, interventions, failures, harvest, and assumptions rather than advertising ideal yield as fact."
    }
  ],
  "architecture": {
    "summary": "Mendala combines physical modules, crop plan, water and nutrient loop, light and climate zones, rotational access, local controller, RLDS telemetry, and SignalBridge production receipts.",
    "layers": [
      {
        "name": "Grow architecture",
        "role": "Full-size and portable structural concepts with modular crop positions.",
        "status": "designed"
      },
      {
        "name": "Life-support loop",
        "role": "Water, nutrients, filtration, lighting, airflow, cleaning, and failure handling.",
        "status": "designed"
      },
      {
        "name": "Local controller",
        "role": "Laptop or Raspberry Pi-class control, sensors, schedules, alerts, and override.",
        "status": "planned"
      },
      {
        "name": "Yield ledger",
        "role": "Crop assumptions, cycle time, losses, labor, inputs, and measured output.",
        "status": "planned"
      }
    ]
  },
  "roadmap": [
    {
      "phase": "Now",
      "title": "Freeze the prototype crop and scale",
      "description": "Choose one physical size, crop set, climate assumption, and measurable success criterion."
    },
    {
      "phase": "Next",
      "title": "Build and instrument one unit",
      "description": "Record bill of materials, assembly time, failures, inputs, labor, and harvest over repeated cycles."
    },
    {
      "phase": "Later",
      "title": "Publish model-specific projections",
      "description": "Update cost and yield ranges only from measured prototype receipts and clearly stated assumptions."
    }
  ],
  "relatedProjectContext": [
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-RLDS-001",
      "relationship": "Sensors and local automation"
    },
    {
      "projectId": "PRJ-SB-001",
      "relationship": "Evidence and production claims"
    }
  ],
  "contentStatus": "draft",
  "recordUpdatedAt": "2026-07-25",
  "sourceNote": "Public-safe static snapshot generated from the v0.4 B4 review registry. Source files and private working notes are not embedded."
}