Showcase Worlds¶
ChemWorld presents a family of interoperable experimental worlds rather than fifteen isolated simulators. Tasks select different slices of one typed operation language and compose the apparatus, material, instrument and scoring capabilities they need.
World families¶
| Family | Public tasks and questions |
|---|---|
| Reaction and assay | reaction-to-assay, standard optimization, safety-constrained optimization, mechanism explanation |
| Separation and purification | partition discovery, reaction-to-purification, purity–yield trade-off |
| Crystallization | seeded cooling, isolation, purity, yield and particle-size trade-offs |
| Distillation | volatile-product recovery after reaction |
| Flow | geometry-resolved PFR optimization under bounded process controls |
| Electrochemistry | solvent/electrolyte choice and selective charge- and energy-efficient conversion |
| Characterization and planning | equilibrium characterization, low-budget characterization and tool-agent planning |
The registered Public v0.4 task census is 15. “Showcase” means platform breadth and teaching value; it does not grant every task a formal Agent-comparison claim.
Shared experimental language¶
Depending on the task, the same runtime can expose:
- material operations such as adding solvents, reagents, catalysts, phases or extractants;
- process operations such as heat, mix, settle, crystallize, distill, run flow or electrolyze;
- workup operations such as separate, wash, dry, evaporate and collect;
- public instruments such as HPLC, GC, spectroscopy, voltammetry and final assay;
- lifecycle operations including termination and contract-valid closeout.
available_actions() and the action schemas are state-dependent. A world is not a menu of always-valid buttons: apparatus, materials, task permissions and budget determine what can commit next.
Composition qualification¶
The release qualifies 64 reference task–world units and 52 generated compositions. Qualification checks interface compatibility, deterministic replay, bounded response, conservation and task-level execution. These counts are coverage evidence for the software composition system, not 116 independent chemical validations.
Explore the world capability map, composition examples, or operate them in the Student Lab.