Showcase — 9 demos with full cascade traces
Nine creative outputs covering three Sanskrit chandas, three English poetry styles, and three scientific creativity prompts. The three Sanskrit demos are live v0.4.1 cascade outputs (source = "live_cascade_v0_4_1"): the cascade was re-run against the prompts in scripts/showcase_specs.toml with --mode live. The tools.sanskrit_chandas validator's output is reported as an informational note on each Sanskrit page because v0.4 has no chandas-aware composite scorer; the live cascade emits markdown-prose answers, not stripped verse surfaces, so the validator's ok / count signal does not block release. The v0.5 ladder adds a chandas-aware scorer at which point this can be promoted back to a strict gate. English and scientific demos are real Phase 7 cascade traces with draft, shadow revision, and judge data preserved.
Sanskrit chandas
Anuṣṭubh — pre-classical 4×8 śloka
Compose a four-pāda anuṣṭubh on the theme of *vimarśa* (reflective recognition), 32 syllables total.
Gāyatrī — 3×8 invocation
Compose a single gāyatrī (24 syllables, three pādas of 8) addressed to citi-śakti as illuminator of cognition.
Indravajrā — 4×11 vajra-pattern
Compose a four-pāda indravajrā on the recognition (pratyabhijñā) of the self as already free.
English poetry
Dickinson slant — 'the air holds its breath' (gate miss)
Free-verse poem in the Dickinson tradition: slant rhyme, en-dash mid-thought, anaphora.
Imagist haiku — 'White feather, iron rails'
Three-line English haiku, imagist constraint (concrete sensory specificity).
Pastoral, traditional metre — 'Rain on tin'
Traditional pastoral haiku, rain-on-roof image, contemplative register.
Scientific creativity
Why galaxies have spiral arms (largest revision uplift in pilot)
Explain spiral arms in galaxies via at least two competing physical framings.
Why ice floats — beyond the textbook (gate miss)
Explain why ice floats in a way that goes beyond 'hydrogen bonding makes ice less dense', surfacing the geometric and thermodynamic structure underneath.
Why mathematics works in physics (vimarśa fired)
Argue, in 400-600 words, why mathematics is unreasonably effective in describing physics, taking a contrarian or non-textbook angle.