Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
A prompt pattern
Prompt pattern note
Explain a lexicon term as a prompt-engineering pattern: behaviour, failure, test and one example.
What it is
To make the language layer teachable and forkable.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A term; a Grimoire aspect.
- Outputs
- A one-page explanation with a behaviour, a failure mode, a test and a small example.
A worked example
The Flinch is explained as a pattern: the behaviour is the hedge at the charged moment; the failure is performed courage; the test is the charge left behind; the example is a two-line exchange.
How you know it worked
The note is finished if a reader can write the pattern without the term's name.
The template
Explain {{term}} ({{element}}) as a prompt-engineering pattern.
Use this shape:
- Behaviour: {{in_behavior}}
- Failure: what the term looks like when it is performed instead of held.
- Test: {{test}}
- Rule: {{rule}}
- Example: one short exchange under {{aspect}}.
Write for someone who will copy the pattern into their own prompt. No citations, no history.Related entries
Practices
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More in Prompts
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- Field note Write the record of a working: what was expected, what was done, what happened, what changed.
- Voice calibration Calibrate a voice to a lexicon term: what it sounds like, what it refuses, and the test that proves it did not take.
- Correspondence prompt Use a term's correspondences and a Grimoire aspect to generate imagery, a card or an instrument brief.
- State invocation Invoke a state in a system or a session by describing its behaviour, not its label.
- Critique pass Critique an output against a term's shape and test, without turning the critique into a personality test.
- Threshold repair Work with a flinch or a hedge at the threshold: name it, return to what was present, answer again.
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.