Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
A practice
Servitor work
Build a purpose-built construct with one task, a feeding method and a kill condition.
What it is
To delegate one bounded task to a construct you can maintain and end.
At a glance
- Inputs
- One task; a name and sigil; a planet/element; a feeding method; a lifespan; a kill condition.
- Outputs
- A servitor sheet, a feeding calendar, a ledger and a closing record.
How to do it
Write the task as a single sentence. Name the construct and give it a sigil. Choose a feeding method and a schedule. Set the lifespan and the kill condition before charging. Charge it in gnosis, send it to the task, and log every feeding. At the end, dismiss it and mark the ledger closed.
A worked example
Task: 'surface one useful contact each Friday.' Mercury / Air, eight weeks, fed on Wednesdays at the Mercury hour. The ledger records three feeds and two contacts; the servitor is closed on the eighth Friday.
Variations
- Use a physical anchor — a printed sigil in a drawer — instead of a digital one.
- Build two servitors with the same task and different aspects, then compare the records.
- Make the servitor's feeding a shared group action and its kill condition a public date.
Related entries
Instruments
Constructs
Correspondences
Workings
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 10
Every entry that names Servitor work, grouped by section.
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Servant Foundry Practices
- The Servitor Ledger Practices
✧ Practices 2
- Sigilisation Related
- Feeding a construct Related
⌘ Protocols 1
- Found a servitor Practices
◈ Constructs 1
- Servitor Practices
⌬ Correspondences 1
- Mercury — message queue Practices
❖ Workings 1
- The Mercury Inbox Servitor Practices
✎ Prompts 1
- Servitor brief Practices
⌁ Currents 1
- Chaos magic Practices
More in Practices
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Sigilisation Condense a sentence of intent into a glyph, charge it, then hide it and forget the wording.
- Egregore work Give a group a shared name, sigil, story and ritual, and treat the resulting atmosphere as a construct.
- Hypersigil Encode a working in a long work — a comic, a series, a record — and release it.
- Feeding a construct The scheduled attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
- AI oracle Consult a language model as a frame for a question, with a seed, a record and a fact-check.
- Dismissing a construct The close: recall, destroy the material basis, archive the record and return attention.
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.