About this project

a composable web of knowledge · mimmsy

learn.mimmsy.com is an interactive textbook built as a web of knowledge. Small ideas are explained once and reused; larger ideas are assembled from them. The assembly is recorded as data you can navigate.

3 courses 5 live concepts 11 on the way

What it is

Knowledge here is compositional. A concept is a short, self-contained page that answers “what is X?”. Each one pairs a written explanation with an interactive demo, then checks your understanding with a few questions. A lesson is a step in a course that composes concepts toward a goal. Every page is a named node, and the prerequisites between nodes are explicit edges in a shared graph.

It is free and needs no account. Your progress lives only in your own browser.

How it's built

Contribute

This is open. The same contracts that keep the core honest apply to every contribution, so it is hard to break things by accident. You can write a new concept page, add a lesson to an existing course, or build an interactive widget.

Because the whole site is structured, AI agents do the mechanical work well. The repository ships Claude Code skills: /concept to author a page and /widget to build an interactive. They follow the rules and validate against the build. Describe what you want, and the agent scaffolds and writes it, then the build checks it.