Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
A prompt pattern
Oracle frame
Frame a reading with a lexicon term and a Grimoire aspect, then ask for one action.
What it is
To make an oracle session that returns a frame and a record, not a prophecy.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A term; a Grimoire aspect; a question; the draw.
- Outputs
- A reading frame, a caution, and one action.
A worked example
Question: what should I stop maintaining? Draw: The Flinch with Saturn. The reading names the hedge around an abandoned project and asks for one clean close.
How you know it worked
The reading is finished if it names one action and one thing to leave alone.
The template
Question: {{task}}
Draw: {{term}} ({{element}}) with {{aspect}}.
What the term is: {{description}}
How it shows up: {{in_systems}}
Test: {{test}}
Rule: {{rule}}
Read the draw against the question. Do not predict. Name one pattern, one caution and one action. End with the record line: question, term, aspect, action.Related entries
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- Servitor brief Turn a lexicon term into a servitor brief: one task, a feeding, a kill condition and a test.
- Charter clause Write a group charter clause from a term: the behaviour, the boundary and the way out.
- Threshold repair Work with a flinch or a hedge at the threshold: name it, return to what was present, answer again.
- Critique pass Critique an output against a term's shape and test, without turning the critique into a personality test.
- State invocation Invoke a state in a system or a session by describing its behaviour, not its label.
- Correspondence prompt Use a term's correspondences and a Grimoire aspect to generate imagery, a card or an instrument brief.
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