Academics
CommonsForge
Design the rules of a shared-resource community — then watch them work or break. For teens: give a village hidden appetites, set a quota, enforcement, penalties and a stewardship reward, run a season, and see the commons sustain or collapse (and a proxy metric beat the real goal). Computed on-device; nothing leaves your device.
#059669 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
CommonsForge is an older-teen app, so its cast are realistic text case personas (no illustrations, R-OLDER-TEEN-DN-ADAPTED). They ask the designer's questions before you trust a rule.
Ada
The community-rules designer — rules are not wishes, they are incentives: given how people actually behave, what does this rule make them do?
Boaz
The moderation-appeals reviewer — every metric can be gamed and every sanction can be unjust; what are we really protecting, and who does this rule cost?
What's inside
Learning goal
Design the rules of a shared-resource community — then watch them work or break. For teens: give a village hidden appetites, set a quota, enforcement, penalties and a stewardship reward, run a season, and see the commons sustain or collapse (and a proxy metric beat the real goal). Computed on-device; nothing leaves your device.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Ada — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How CommonsForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
CommonsForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
CommonsForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
Email me at launch