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SEED · build deterministic state from a seed

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OMNI saysSEED — build deterministic state from a seed value (v3.2 genesis verb).

SEED (added v3.2) deterministically constructs state from a seed value — same seed in, same state out, every time. It's the primitive beneath GENESIS and the per-user chain: reproducibility without storing the state itself. SEED is why a user's surface can be regenerated anywhere from their private seed rather than synced from a server. Determinism is the whole point — no randomness sneaks in.

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Example code

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<body style="background:#06040d;color:#b388ff;font-family:monospace;padding:20px"><pre>seedState(seedValue) → deterministic state
same seed → identical state (no randomness)
basis of reproducible instances</pre></body></html>
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