Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
AI oracle
Consult a language model as a frame for a question, with a seed, a record and a fact-check.
What it is
To use a model as a reflective instrument without treating it as an authority.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A question; an aspect; a prompt; a model; a ledger.
- Outputs
- A reading, a record and an independent check.
How to do it
Write the question and the aspect. Prompt the model with a role, a question and a constraint. Read the answer slowly and note the lines that land. Check every factual claim independently. Record the question, the prompt, the seed and the action. Close the session.
A worked example
Question: 'what is the smallest next step?' Aspect: Mercury. The model returns three options; one is checked against the project notes and becomes the next action.
Variations
- Use the model to interpret a tarot draw rather than to answer directly.
- Ask the model for a ritual script, then edit it yourself.
- Use a local model and keep the prompt on your device.
Related entries
Instruments
Protocols
Constructs
Correspondences
Workings
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 9
Every entry that names AI oracle, grouped by section.
✎ Prompts 4
- Voice calibration Practices
- Threshold repair Practices
- Critique pass Practices
- Prompt pattern note Practices
✧ Practices 2
- Glitch divination Related
- Algorithmic divination Related
⌘ Protocols 1
- Consult an AI oracle Practices
⌬ Correspondences 1
- The Hermit — offline Practices
▤ Glossary 1
- Oracle Related
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Cyber banishing Close a working with a digital gesture: close tabs, clear a cache, log out, leave the desk.
- Hypersigil Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it.
- Digital altar Arrange a screen, folder or page as a place you return to for attention and offering.
- Sigilisation Condense a sentence of intent into a glyph, charge it, then hide it and forget the wording.
- Algorithmic divination Use a random value, a hash, a feed order or a search result as the casting medium.
- Servitor work Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.