INDEX.md

Nexus Engine — Documentation Index

Generated: 2026-05-17T15:26:41Z

(root)

• Nexus Engine — Integration Report
• Nexus Engine — Docs

architecture

• Nexus Engine — Vision
• Nexus Engine — Principles (The 15 Binding Laws)
• Nexus Engine — System Map
• Nexus Engine — Tech Stack
• Nexus Engine — Workspace Layout
• Nexus Engine — Modularity Manifesto
• Nexus Engine — Extend, Don't Fork
• Nexus Engine — Compose Don't Build
• Nexus Engine — Benchmarks Pending
• Nexus Engine — Cross-Agent Flags
• Nexus Engine — Decisions Open
• Nexus Engine — Decisions Resolved
• Cargo Feature & Workspace Layout Matrix
• Proposed Law #14 — Extend, Don't Fork

architecture/05-adr

• ADR NNNN —
• ADR 0001 — Rust as the Primary Implementation Language
• ADR 0002 — wgpu as the GPU Abstraction Layer
• ADR 0003 — Entity Component System (ECS) as the Core Architecture Pattern
• ADR 0004 — MIT License, Forever, No Dual Licensing
• ADR 0005 — GGPO-Style Rollback Netcode as the Primary Real-Time Multiplayer Model
• ADR 0006 — Headless-By-Default Runtime
• ADR 0007 — Deterministic Replay as a Foundational Capability
• ADR 0008 — Editor as agent_client_0
• ADR 0009 — Model Context Protocol as the Public Interop Layer
• ADR 0010 — Ratify Modularity + Extend-Don't-Fork as Laws #14 and #15

contracts

• Contract: Core ⇄ Agent API
• Contract: Core ⇄ Audio
• Contract: Core ⇄ Networking
• Contract: Core ⇄ Physics
• Contract: Core ⇄ Renderer
• Contract: Core ⇄ Scripting
• Contract: Physics ⇄ Renderer (Debug Draw)
• Contract: Renderer ⇄ Assets

game-template

• AAA Path — From Weekend MVP to Dota 2 Scale
• nexus CLI — Reference
• Nexus.toml — Manifest Spec
• nexus-game-template — Overview
• nexus-game-template — Directory Structure
• Weekend MVP — Friday 6pm to Sunday 8pm

game-template/scripts

• Game Template — scripts/custom/ Extension Rules
• Game Template — scripts/ Overview
• Game Template — Seeded scripts/

games

• nexus-fps
• nexus-platformer
• nexus-rpg
• nexus-rts
• Demo Games — Overview

guides

• ADR Format
• AI Dev Team Onboarding
• Guide — CI and scripts/
• CodeRabbit — What It Checks, How to Use It, When It's Wrong
• Contract Format
• Contributing to Nexus
• Cross-Linking
• Extend, Don't Fork — Migration Cookbook
• File Conventions
• GitHub GraphQL Cookbook
• Glossary
• Integration Team — Charter
• Mastermind PR Loop — Orchestration Rules
• nexus-merge — AI Merge System
• Parallelism Doctrine
• PR Protocol
• PR Workflow — The Babysit Loop
• Guide — scripts/ for AI Agents
• Guide — scripts/ Overview (for game devs)
• Guide — Write Your Own Script
• Spec Format
• Nexus Docs Style Guide
• Subagent Fleet — House Style
• Subagent Fleet — How To Use It

guides/coding-style

• Comment Policy
• Dependency Policy
• Error Contract
• Formatting Tools
• Logging
• Lua Style
• Naming (Universal)
• Coding Style — Overview
• Python Style
• Rust Style
• SQL Style
• TOML / JSON Style
• TypeScript Style
• WGSL Style

guides/crates

• Crates — Agent Recipes
• Crates — Community Policy & Governance
• Crates — Consuming Guide
• Crates — Curated Starter List
• Crates — Migration Guide
• Crates — Publishing Guide

guides/deploy

• Deploy — Agent Recipes
• Deploy — CI/CD
• Deploy — Cost Model
• Deploy — Environments
• Deploy — Observability
• Deploy — Overview
• Deploy — Region Matrix
• Deploy — Secrets

guides/deploy/targets

• Deploy Target — Agones
• Deploy Target — AWS
• Deploy Target — Azure
• Deploy Target — Cloudflare
• Deploy Target — DigitalOcean
• Deploy Target — Fly.io
• Deploy Target — GCP
• Deploy Target — Hetzner
• Deploy Target — Railway
• Deploy Target — Render
• Deploy Target — Self-Host
• Deploy Target — Vercel

guides/hub

• Guide — Agent Recipes for nexus-hub
• Guide — nexus-hub Overview
• Guide — Self-host a nexus-hub mirror
• Guide — Submitting to nexus-hub

guides/liveops

• A/B + Multivariate Testing
• Agent Recipes — How nexus-coder Uses Live-Ops Data
• AI Triage
• Alerts
• Gameplay Analytics
• Bugsnag Integration
• Release Cadence
• Canary & Rollback
• Crash Format — Native Dumps & Symbolication
• Crash → PR Pipeline
• Dashboards
• Error Reporting — The Universal Envelope
• Feature Flags
• GlitchTip — The MIT Default
• Hotfix Pipeline
• Integrations Matrix
• Live Content Service
• Solo-Dev On-Call
• The One-Month Solo-Dev Playbook
• OTA / Delta Updates
• Live-Ops — Thesis
• Postmortem
• Privacy — Defaults That Don't Ship Broken
• Remote Config
• Replay-on-Crash
• Sentry Integration
• Symbol Upload
• Telemetry Pipeline

guides/mods

• Mods — Agent Recipes
• Mods — Famous Mods as Tests
• Mods — Integrations Matrix
• Mods Distribution — Overview

guides/mods/authoring

• Authoring — AI-Assisted (nexus-coder Builds Mods)
• Authoring — Debugging
• Authoring — Editor Workflow
• Authoring — Localization (i18n)
• Authoring — Packaging
• Authoring — Performance
• Authoring — Publishing
• Authoring — Quickstart
• Authoring — Templates
• Authoring — Test Harness
• Authoring — Versioning

guides/mods/economy

• Economy — Free Mods
• Economy — Legal
• Economy — Marketplace Cut Comparison
• Economy — Overview
• Economy — Paid Mods

guides/mods/marketplaces

• Marketplaces — CurseForge
• Marketplaces — Decision Matrix
• Marketplaces — itch.io as Mod Host
• Marketplaces — Mod.io
• Marketplaces — nexus-hub [DECISION NEEDED]
• Marketplaces — Nexus Mods
• Marketplaces — Self-Hosted
• Marketplaces — Steam Workshop
• Marketplaces — Thunderstore

guides/mods/players

• Players — Conflict Resolution
• Players — Installing Mods
• Players — Permissions UI
• Players — Mod Profiles
• Players — Safety
• Players — Sharing Saves (With Required Mods)

guides/recipes

• 2.5D Billboard Quick-Start
• 2.5D HD-2D Quick-Start
• Destruction Quick-Start
• Falling-Sand Quick-Start
• Heavy Particles Quick-Start
• Massive RTS Quick-Start
• Rhythm Quick-Start
• Seamless MMORPG Quick-Start
• Sim-Game Quick-Start
• Text-Heavy Quick-Start
• Voxel Game Quick-Start

guides/release

• Release — Agent Recipes
• Release — Apple App Store (iOS / iPadOS / macOS)
• Release — Auto-Update
• Release — Epic Games Store
• Release — GOG
• Release — Installer Authoring
• Release — itch.io
• Release — Meta Quest Store
• Release — Microsoft Store (PC + Xbox PC)
• Release — Overview
• Release — Google Play Store
• Release — PlayStation 5
• Release — Sideloading (Direct Distribution)
• Release — Steam
• Release — Nintendo Switch
• Release — Web (WASM + WebGPU)
• Release — Xbox Series X|S

guides/release/codesigning

• Codesigning — Android
• Codesigning — iOS (Provisioning Profiles + Certs)
• Codesigning — Linux
• Codesigning — macOS (Developer ID + Notarization)
• Codesigning — Windows (Authenticode)

guides/studios

• Studio Playbook — Extend vs Fork

guides/testing

• CI Pipeline
• Coverage
• Fuzzing
• Game Tests (Template Monorepo)
• Integration Testing
• Network Testing
• Testing — Overview
• Performance Tests
• Property-Based Tests
• Scenarios — The Nexus Innovation
• Snapshot & Replay Tests
• Unit Testing
• Visual Regression Tests

initial

• NEXUS ENGINE — FULL SPEC GENERATION MISSION
• Nexus Engine — Vision

prior-art

• Bevy
• Flecs
• GGPO
• Godot
• LÖVE (Love2D)
• OGRE / OGRE-Next
• Rapier
• Stride (formerly Xenko / Paradox)
• Unreal Engine 5
• Unity

specs

specs/4x-strategy

• 4X Strategy — Overview

specs/agent

• Agent API — JSON-RPC Wire Protocol
• Agent API — Headless Runtime
• Agent API — MCP Client Integration Guide
• Agent API — MCP Server (nexus-mcp-server)
• Agent API — Overview
• Agent API — Snapshot & Replay
• Agent API — Scenarios
• Agent API — nexus-agent-sdk
• Agent API — Semantic Layer
• Agent API — Telemetry

specs/assets

• Asset Compression
• AI Asset Generation
• Asset Import
• LOD & Virtual Geometry
• Asset Pipeline — Overview
• Asset Registry
• Asset Streaming

specs/audio

• Audio — Adaptive / Dynamic Music
• Audio — DSP Chain & Effects
• Audio — Overview
• Audio — Spatial / 3D
• Audio — Streaming & Decoding
• Audio — Voice Chat

specs/cellular-automata

• Cellular Automata — Overview

specs/coder

• nexus-coder — Architecture
• nexus-coder — CLI Surface
• nexus-coder — Context Engineering
• nexus-coder — Integration With the Engine
• nexus-coder — Model Routing
• nexus-coder — Overview
• nexus-coder — Parallelism
• nexus-coder — Sandbox & Safety
• nexus-coder — Telemetry
• nexus-coder — Tools
• nexus-coder — Workflows

specs/core

• Core / ECS
• Core / Events
• Core / HAL — Hardware Abstraction Layer
• Core / Jobs
• Core / Math
• Core / Memory

specs/crates

• Crates — awesome-nexus
• Crates — Categories
• Crates — Discovery
• Crates — Licensing
• Crates — Manifest
• Crates — Naming Policy
• Crates Ecosystem — Overview
• Crates — NexusPlugin Trait Spec
• Crates — Quality Bar
• Crates — Rails-Plugin Mental Model
• Crates — Release Pipeline
• Crates — Sandbox Mode (Resolved: ships v2.0, opt-in)
• Crates — Security & Supply Chain
• Crates — Stable API Promise
• Crates — Testing
• Crates — Versioning

specs/deformable-terrain

• Deformable Terrain — Overview

specs/destruction-first

• Destruction-First — Overview

specs/editor

• Editor — Asset Browser
• Editor — Debug Overlays & Profiler
• Editor — JetBrains Plugin [DEFERRED — v2.0]
• Editor — Live Reload
• Editor — Overview
• Editor — RPC Parity (Enforcement Spec)
• Editor — Scene Graph & Inspector
• Editor — Shader / Material Graph
• Editor — VS Code / Cursor Extension (post-v1.0)
• Editor — Zed Extension (post-v1.0)

specs/fluid-gameplay

• Fluid as Gameplay — Overview

specs/genres

• Battle Royale Genre Module
• Fighting Genre Module
• FPS Genre Module
• Horror Genre Module
• MMORPG Genre Module
• MOBA Genre Module
• Open World Genre Module
• Platformer Genre Module
• Puzzle Genre Module
• Racing Genre Module
• Roguelike / Roguelite Genre Module
• RPG Genre Module
• RTS Genre Module
• Survival Genre Module
• Tower Defense Genre Module
• Visual Novel Genre Module

specs/hub

• nexus-hub — Agent API
• nexus-hub — HTTP API
• nexus-hub — Architecture
• nexus-hub — Browse UI
• nexus-hub — CLI
• nexus-hub — Crawler
• nexus-hub — Federation
• nexus-hub — Identity
• nexus-hub — Index Format
• nexus-hub — Moderation
• nexus-hub — Overview
• nexus-hub — Ratings & Reviews
• nexus-hub — Telemetry
• nexus-hub — Verification

specs/massive-rts

• Massive RTS — Overview

specs/merge-policy

• Merge Policy — No Engine-Source Modification Without Rationale

specs/mods

• Mods — Accessibility
• Mods — Anti-Cheat Compatibility
• Mods — Asset Overlay
• Mods — Dependency Resolution
• Mods — Hot Reload
• Mods — Lifecycle
• Mods — Load Order
• Mods — mod.toml Manifest Schema
• Mods — Multiplayer Sync
• Mods — Native Mods (WASM Tier)
• Mods — NSFW Gates & Content Moderation
• Mods — Overview
• Mods — Package Format (.nxmod)
• Mods — Permissions (Capability Consent Contract)
• Mods — Save-Game Compatibility
• Mods — SDK
• Mods — Telemetry (Opt-In Author Analytics)
• Mods — Total Conversions

specs/networking

• Networking — Anti-Cheat & Trust Model
• Networking — Lobby, Matchmaking, Relay
• Networking — Overview
• Networking — Server-Authoritative Replication
• Networking — Rollback Netcode
• Networking — Transport & Reliability

specs/physics

• Physics — Character Controller
• Physics — Collision Detection
• Physics — Determinism Guarantees
• Physics — Fluid Simulation
• Physics — Overview
• Physics — Rigid Body Dynamics
• Physics — Soft Body, Cloth, Destruction

specs/procgen-first

• Procgen-First — Overview

specs/renderer

• Renderer Backend
• Global Illumination
• Renderer Overview
• Particles — Heavy (10M–100M)
• Particles & VFX Graph
• PBR & Material System
• Post-Processing Stack
• Shader Pipeline
• Shadows
• Terrain

specs/rhythm-game

• Rhythm Game — Overview

specs/scripting

• Hot Reload
• Lua Scripting (Trusted Tier)
• Scripting
• Rune Scripting (Sandboxed Mod Tier)
• Mod Sandbox & Capability Model

specs/scripting-first

• Scripting-First — Overview

specs/scripts

• scripts/ — CLI Contract
• scripts/ — Discovery
• scripts/lib/ — Architecture
• nexus add — Crate Resolution Spec
• scripts/ Convention — Overview
• scripts/ — Security
• scripts/ — Style
• scripts/ — Testing

specs/seamless-world

• Seamless World — Overview

specs/sim-game

• Sim-Game — Overview

specs/styles

• Style — 2.5D
• Style — 2D
• Style — Mixed
• Style — NPR (Cartoon / Cel / Toon)
• Style System — Overview
• Style — PBR (Photorealistic)
• Style — Pixel Art

specs/text-heavy

• Text-Heavy — Overview

specs/voxel

• Voxel — Overview

specs/weather-as-system

• Weather as System — Overview