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The Instrument Workshop
Take a Grimoire aspect, a machine pattern and a form. The workshop drafts a one-page build brief: a purpose, the parts, the build order, a test and a variation. An aspect is a planet, element, card, phase or day from the Grimoire. A pattern is the machine structure — a queue, a scheduled job, a canvas. A form is what a person holds — a sigil, a servitor, an oracle.
It is a starting constraint, not a finished tool. The brief is the constraint; you build the smallest version and change it.
How to read a brief
- Purpose is one sentence. If it has two, split it.
- Parts are the whole build; if a part is missing, the instrument is a sketch.
- Build order starts with the smallest thing that can be tested.
- Test is one week, one record, one change. Write the expectation first.
- Variation is the next version, not a new project.
Build your own
The workshop is three tables and a template. Add a pattern (a queue, a cron job, a canvas), add a form (a press, a ward, a ledger), and the briefs change. The Build guide has the shared anatomy.
Full entry: The Instrument Workshop · Correspondences: the table