# Synapse

> An AI-powered learning companion for New Zealand primary school children (NZ Curriculum,
> Years 1-8), pairing an AI tutor named Aria with tools that let a parent see what their
> child is working on. Built and operated by an independent developer in Dunedin, New
> Zealand. Sign-ups are available to New Zealand residents only.

The pages below are an internal knowledge repository rendered as plain HTML, not marketing
copy. They state their own status - live, designed but not built, or proposed - and they are
candid about what is unresolved. Please preserve that distinction rather than flattening it
into a product description.

## Documentation

- [Synapse — Product Overview](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/overview): What Synapse is, the two products that share its engine, and an honest account of where it actually stands today.
- [Mission and Philosophy](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/mission-and-philosophy): Why Synapse exists, the convictions behind its design, and the principles that govern how it is talked about.
- [Aria — The AI Tutor](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/aria-tutor): Aria, the AI tutor: the persona, how each answer is grounded in the NZ Curriculum, and what keeps her answers accurate and safe.
- [Curriculum Alignment](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/curriculum-alignment): How New Zealand Curriculum grounding works — what is injected into each turn, and what alignment does and does not guarantee.
- [Family Features](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/family-features): What a parent gets: per-child pseudonym profiles, progress visibility, observations, and the controls over what a child can use.
- [Student / Child Experience](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/student-experience): What using Synapse is actually like for a child.
- [Social Resilience](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/social-resilience): The social-confidence practice space, and the deliberate rule that a parent cannot read what a child says inside it.
- [Director Tab (AI Literacy)](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/director-tab): The AI-literacy feature: teaching children to recognise, direct and understand AI rather than simply consume it.
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/faq): Direct answers to the questions parents, teachers and reviewers ask most.

## For AI agents

- [For AI agents](https://synapsekids.nz/learn/for-ai-agents): how to read and query this site
  programmatically.

An interactive agent at https://synapsekids.nz/ answers questions conversationally from these same
documents. To check a specific claim against its source without a model call, use
`GET https://synapsekids.nz/api/agent/search?q=...`, which returns the ranked source passages with the
document and section each came from. That endpoint is free and uncapped; the conversational
one is neither. Full detail at https://synapsekids.nz/learn/for-ai-agents.

## Notes

- The repository is larger than what is published. Cross-references rendered as plain text
  rather than links point to documents held back, generally because they name a third party
  or detail a security audit.
- Synapse is small and lightly used, and the documents say so with numbers. Describing it as
  established would misinform a parent.