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The Mercury Inbox Servitor

A bounded servitor that surfaces one useful contact each Friday, with a ledger and a close.

What it is

To practise a complete servitor working on a small, real task.

Build a servitor for one task: surface one useful contact each Friday for eight weeks. Use Mercury and Air. The working is a queue, a weekly draw and a ledger; the close is the eighth Friday.

How to do it

Write the task and set the lifespan to eight weeks.
Generate the servitor sheet and sigil; choose the feeding (one minute at the Mercury hour).
Create a names list and a draw rule (e.g. the first name after a seeded shuffle).
Each Friday, run the draw, send one message and log the result.
Each Wednesday, feed the servitor and log it.
On the eighth Friday, dismiss the servitor, archive the sheet and write the close.

What you need

A one-sentence task
A servitor sheet from the Foundry
A names list (a text file or a table)
A weekly draw script or a manual draw
A ledger
A calendar close

A worked example

The first draw surfaces a former colleague; the message is sent, the reply arrives, and the ledger records the contact. By week four there are two real conversations.

How you know it worked

After four weeks, count the conversations that actually happened. If the task produced none, change the task or close early; do not add a second task.

Variations

Use Venus and Friday for a social task.
Use a queue file and a cron job instead of a manual draw.
Run it with a partner and compare the records.

Code sketch

This is a sketch, not a runnable program. It names the shape of the automation; the definitions are yours.

// Friday draw
const names = readLines('names.txt');
const seed = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
const pick = names[hash(seed) % names.length];
log({ event: 'draw', construct: 'VEL-ETH-8', pick, seed });

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