# A tour through Agora Cosmica Everything orbits one figure at a time. Four chapters build on each other (Story, Wisdom, Prism, Quest: receive, explore, connect, prove), and two open formats sit beside them, Free Talk and Council. Here is what it looks like to use the Library, frame by frame, as of September 2026. ## Step in

The homepage: the portrait of Marcus Aurelius, the tagline, where his path leads, his first chapter, and one Begin button
The homepage leads with one figure and one door: where his path leads, his first chapter, and a Begin button. 30 free messages a day, no account.

The cinematic intro: a line of standing figures under a night sky, with the question How should we live?
A short cinematic opens the Library. Tap anywhere to skip it.

## Meet the figure

The figure gallery with the About sheet open for Marcus Aurelius: his portrait, what you will learn, a Play intro button, and the paragraph that grounds the Echo
Every figure opens with who they were and what you will learn from them. The voice is an AI Echo, grounded in primary works and historical context, and says so.

## Choose a chapter

The learning arc for one figure: Story, Wisdom, Prism and Quest numbered around the portrait, with Free Talk above
The four chapters around one figure, numbered in their order, with Free Talk above them. Council lives in the left nav, since it brings four figures together.

## Listen

A story chapter playing: the player at 0:37 of 13:50, the spoken paragraph lit, the text alongside
A narrated chapter of the figure's life, about 13 minutes, with the text alongside and the spoken paragraph lit as it plays.

The chapter paused, a typed question in the ask panel, and the Echo's answer
Pause a chapter and ask. Type it or say it. The Echo answers from what you have heard so far, and the chapter picks up a breath before where you stopped.

The audio library: a carousel of figures and the list of one figure's narrated chapters with their lengths
The audio library: every figure's foreword and twelve chapters with their lengths, around two and a half hours per figure.

## Talk

A Wisdom conversation: the Echo's opening turn on one teaching, the message field with a microphone, and the note that an AI Echo can be wrong
A Wisdom conversation on one teaching. Type or speak, and the reply comes in the Echo voice. The note under the field says it plainly: an AI Echo can be wrong, verify anything important.

## Convene a council

Building a council: a moderator in the centre with three participants around, and a typed question below
Build your own council: a moderator, up to three participants, your question, debate or reflection.

The council wall: a public-domain painting on every recorded council, each card naming its question and its four voices
Or take one of the recorded councils: 55 questions, four voices each, at two depth levels, each under a public-domain painting with its museum credit a tap away.

## See the receipts

The facts panel for a story chapter: the date and place, what is documented, what is recreated, and the sources one tap away
Every chapter carries its facts: what the record supports, what was written for the story, and the sources one tap away.

## Choose a voice

Voice settings: the engine choice between Qwen and Kokoro, and five female voices with Preview and Select buttons
English speech ran on Qwen3-TTS by default with five voices per gender, and Kokoro was selectable. Both ran on our own server until November 2026.

## On a phone
A story chapter playing on a phone, the spoken paragraph lit Ask-while-listening on a phone: the question, the Echo's answer, and the Keep listening button
The same chapter on a phone. Asking along the way on a phone.
--- Ready to try it? **[Open the Library](https://agoracosmica.org)** How each chapter works in detail: [CHAPTERS.md](CHAPTERS.md).