Servitors, egregores, tulpas and daemons: what each is, how it is made, fed and ended.
A construct
Daemon
A background process that tends a working without being watched.
What it is
To keep a working alive between sessions: a timer, a watcher, a small service.
How to make it
Write the smallest process that does one thing. Give it a name, a log and a stop. Start it as a cron job, a launch agent or a small server.
A worked example
A Saturday cron job that reads a list of open loops, prints the three oldest and writes a log line.
Background
A start command, a stop command, a log, a schedule or trigger, and a way to find it again.
Keeping it fed
The process's own runtime is its feeding; the practitioner's attention is the weekly log review.
Ending it
Stop the process, remove the schedule, archive the log and note the close.
Keeping a record
The process file, the log and a weekly review line.
Related entries
Instruments
Practices
Protocols
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 28
Every entry that names Daemon, grouped by section.
⌬ Correspondences 7
- Mars — firewall Constructs
- Saturn — scheduled job Constructs
- Moon — feed Constructs
- Fire — event listener Constructs
- The Tower — crash Constructs
- The Hermit — offline Constructs
- Tuesday — Mars Constructs
✧ Practices 6
- Dismissing a construct Constructs
- Planetary timing Constructs
- Glitch divination Constructs
- Algorithmic divination Constructs
- Cyber banishing Constructs
- AI oracle Constructs
⚙ Instruments 5
- The Instrument Workshop Constructs
- The Glitch Oracle Constructs
- The Planetary Hour Daemon Constructs
- The Servitor Ledger Constructs
- The Correspondence Engine Constructs
⌘ Protocols 4
- Cast a glitch oracle Constructs
- Work by planetary hour Constructs
- Digital banishing Constructs
- Consult an AI oracle Constructs
❖ Workings 3
- The Lunar Glitch Oracle Constructs
- The Mars Firewall Ward Constructs
- The Mercury Hour Daemon Constructs
◈ Constructs 1
- Servitor Related
▤ Glossary 1
- Daemon Related
⌁ Currents 1
- Cybermagic Constructs
More in Constructs
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Tulpa A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.
- Genius loci The nature of a place or platform, treated as a presence with its own temperament.
- Egregore A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
- Living work A long work — a comic, a record, a series — treated as a construct with a life and a close.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a sigil, 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.