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The Servant Foundry

Builds a servitor sheet — name, sigil, one task, a way to feed it, a stop condition and a record — from a purpose and a Grimoire aspect.

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What it is

To specify a servitor completely before charging it, so the construct has one task and a way to end.

At a glance

Inputs: A purpose; a planet; an element; a lifespan; a seed.
Outputs: A servitor sheet with a generated name, a sigil, a task statement, a feeding schedule, a kill condition and a JSON export.

How to use it

State one task, not a wish. 'Deliver one useful contact each Friday' is a task; 'be more social' is not.
Choose the planet and element that fit the task.
Set a lifespan and a kill condition before generating the name.
Generate the name and sigil. If the name feels wrong, reroll the seed; do not keep a name you dislike.
Export the sheet. Charge the sigil in gnosis and send the servitor to the task.
Put the feeding schedule and the kill date in a calendar or a ledger.

What you need

A browser
A ledger file
A calendar
A place to keep the sigil

A worked example

Purpose: 'surface one useful contact each Friday.' Planet: Mercury. Element: Air. Lifespan: 8 weeks. Kill: 'on the eighth Friday, delete the sigil and close the ledger.' The foundry names it 'VEL-ETH-8', marks it with ☿ and 🜁, and writes the feeding as 'one minute of attention each Wednesday at the Mercury hour'.

Variations

Use a Moon phase instead of a planet for a time-bound servitor.
Give the servitor a physical anchor: a printed sigil in a drawer.
Run two servitors with the same task and different aspects, and compare the records after four weeks.
Make the kill condition a public date in a shared calendar if the servitor serves a group.

Code sketch

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

const syllables = ['VEL','ETH','MOR','IX','ARA','SOL','NIM','UR'];
const name = (seed) => { const h = hash(seed); return [0,1,2].map((i) => syllables[(h >> (i*5)) & 7]).join('-'); };

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