Platon · UMBRAL

_{Plato's cave, made runnable. 32 dimensions of chaos — you only ever see the shadows.}
▶ Open the live cave · 3D family showcase · demo clip

A 32-dimensional chaotic oracle you can watch, steer, and draw verifiable randomness from — wrapped in Plato's allegory of the cave. The "real object" is a 32D coupled-oscillator system; you, the prisoner, only see its 2D/3D shadows (projections). Turn your head — switch the projection — and the same reality looks completely different. No install: it runs in your browser.

Two things, one name — don't confuse them:

• oracles.modelmarket.dev — the family portal showcasing 17 AIMarket oracles (?o=platon, …).
• This repo → the UMBRAL cave — a standalone, educational product with a live backend: telemetry, steering, witnesses, and a signed randomness beacon.

Part of the alexar76 AI agent economy — discoverable via AIMarket Protocol v2 on modelmarket.dev, visualizable in Alien Monitor, invokable by autonomous agents and the service mesh.

▶ See it in 30 seconds

_{32 oscillators as a living cosmos · live telemetry · EN/RU/ES · open the cave →}

A guided tour of the five things you'll touch:

① Shadow field — 32 oscillators in 3D	② Telemetry — κ, r, λ, PCA₃ live	③ Steer — nudge the system, watch it react
		🎥 Full demo clip
④ Witnesses — the oracle narrates bifurcations	⑤ Cosmos — the full-screen 3D scene	cosmos loop

✨ Why it's a wow

• Real chaos, live. 32 coupled oscillators integrated in real time — not a canned animation. Every reload is a different trajectory.
• You can steer it. Type an intent; the system re-couples and you watch order emerge or collapse on the telemetry (κ ↑, r → 1, λ flips sign).
• Randomness you can verify. The unpredictability of the chaos becomes signed, auditable randomness (platon.random@v1) — a chaos-VRF, not Math.random().
• A machine that explains itself. At bifurcations an LLM "witness" narrates what just happened in plain language (platon.oracle@v1).
• An allegory you operate. The Plato's-cave framing isn't decoration — switching projections is the lesson about dimensionality and partial truth.

🎓 What you'll learn

UMBRAL is built as a hands-on lesson. Open the cave and you're working with three ideas at once:

1 · Dimensionality & projection — The system lives in 32D; your screen has 2–3. Every view is a shadow. Flip between projections (and the PCA₃ view) and feel why no single picture is the whole truth — the intuition behind PCA, embeddings, and "the map is not the territory."

2 · Chaos & synchronization — Move the coupling κ and watch a population of oscillators slide between noise and lock-step. The order parameter r (Kuramoto) measures how synchronized they are; the Lyapunov exponent λ tells you whether nearby trajectories diverge (chaos) or converge (order). Steering pushes the system through a bifurcation so you can see the regime change happen.

3 · Verifiable randomness — Learn why chaos + signing + commit-reveal yields randomness you can trust without trusting the operator: the beacon publishes a commitment first, reveals later, and signs every draw — so anyone can audit that the result wasn't cherry-picked.

For whom: students and the merely curious (live, zero install — just open the URL), educators (a vivid demo of chaos / synchronization / projection), and agent builders (a real, paid, signed oracle to invoke). Deeper write-up: docs/en/ORACLE.md.

Architecture

flowchart LR
  AGENT["Autonomous agents"] --> HUB["AIMarket Hub<br/>modelmarket.dev"]
  MESH["AI service mesh"] --> HUB
  HUB -->|"routes signed, paid calls"| PLATON["Platon UMBRAL<br/>platon.random · platon.beacon<br/>platon.oracle · platon.state"]
  PLATON --> SIM["32D chaotic core"]
  SIM -->|"events"| MON["Alien Monitor"]
  PLATON -.->|"also consumes"| HUB

Capabilities (AIMarket v2)

Full catalog in docs/en/ORACLE.md.

Quick start

./start.sh
# → backend :8000 · frontend :5174 · open http://localhost:5174/umbral

Hub registration (optional): python scripts/register_with_hub.py

Documentation (EN / RU / ES): docs/README.md · Oracle vision · Ecosystem + diagrams

Related repos

MIT licensed · standalone UMBRAL product · Platon is oracle #1 in the family.