Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
A prompt pattern
Correspondence prompt
Use a term's correspondences and a Grimoire aspect to generate imagery, a card or an instrument brief.
What it is
To let the symbolic layer supply the image rather than inventing one.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A term; a Grimoire aspect; the task.
- Outputs
- A prompt for an image, a card or a build brief with a stated symbolic source.
A worked example
Term: Beacon, aspect: Sun. The brief describes a lighthouse lens, a card with one bright circle, and a line about orientation; the test is whether a reader can name the term from the image.
How you know it worked
If the image needs the label to work, the correspondence did not land.
The template
Build a symbolic brief for {{task}}.
Term: {{term}} ({{element}})
Aspect: {{aspect}}
The term's correspondences: {{correspondences}}
What it is: {{description}}
Generate:
- one image, described in concrete nouns;
- one instrument form (a card, a sigil, a small tool);
- one sentence of copy that a person could read without the system prompt;
- one test: does the image carry the term without the label?
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- Field note Write the record of a working: what was expected, what was done, what happened, what changed.
- Charter clause Write a group charter clause from a term: the behaviour, the boundary and the way out.
- Prompt pattern note Explain a lexicon term as a prompt-engineering pattern: behaviour, failure, test and one example.
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