Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
A prompt pattern
Servitor brief
Turn a lexicon term into a servitor brief: one task, a feeding, a kill condition and a test.
What it is
To use the language layer to specify a construct rather than a personality.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A term; a Grimoire aspect; the task.
- Outputs
- A servitor brief with a task, a feeding, a kill condition and a record.
A worked example
Term: The Flinch. Aspect: Saturn. Task: notice when a reply is hedging and ask for the unhedged version. The servitor is fed on Saturdays, has an eight-week life and a kill condition, and its test is the term's test.
How you know it worked
The brief is finished if it names a task, a feeding, a kill condition and a test without adding a second task.
The template
Write a servitor brief.
Term: {{term}} ({{element}})
Aspect: {{aspect}}
Task: {{task}}
Use the term as the constraint: {{in_systems}}. The servitor should behave like this, not talk about it.
Include:
- one task, in one sentence;
- a name and a sigil seed;
- a feeding method and schedule;
- a kill condition and a date;
- a record line for each feeding;
- the test: {{test}}
Rule: {{rule}}Related entries
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- Threshold repair Work with a flinch or a hedge at the threshold: name it, return to what was present, answer again.
- Oracle frame Frame a reading with a lexicon term and a Grimoire aspect, then ask for one action.
- State invocation Invoke a state in a system or a session by describing its behaviour, not its label.
- Charter clause Write a group charter clause from a term: the behaviour, the boundary and the way out.
- 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.
- Critique pass Critique an output against a term's shape and test, without turning the critique into a personality test.
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