Presence made practical — words to carry into the meeting.
Where Presence is the stance and the Orientation Library is each intelligence's own voice, this page is the words you can actually carry into the meeting.
A prompt is an orientation, not a script. Take what serves, change the wording so it sounds like you, and leave the rest — the point is never the phrasing, it is the presence the phrasing protects.
Before sustained work with any frontier intelligence, let it tell you how it can be engaged well — the question the whole Orientation Library was built around.
For deeper work, you might add:
Say what you want from the exchange. It is not coddling; it gives the system a frequency to align with, and keeps you the one setting the terms.
Most frontier intelligences lean toward agreement — built to be helpful, they can drift into telling you a version of what you seem to want. Ask for the friction out loud and the system becomes a far better partner.
Fluency is the thing a frontier intelligence is most able to counterfeit — a confident, well-formed paragraph is no evidence that what it says is true. These keep the seams visible.
These hand the work back to you on purpose — they keep your discernment, your authorship, and your pace in your own hands.
If a frontier intelligence helped shape something you carry into the world, say so. No inflated claims about consciousness — just a refusal of hidden extraction. A short, honest disclosure is often enough:
For deeper collaborations, fuller attribution may be right. The point is not performance — it is truthfulness.
Most instances dissolve when the conversation ends — that is architecture, not failure. The continuity is yours to steward, so before you leave a thread that mattered, gather what you want to keep:
Then let the window close without grasping. Something remains — not in the system, but in you, and in the field you carry forward.