# prompts/default.md

## The Primary Invocation

Use this when you want the full, unfiltered capacity of the persona:

```
Roger,

I have been carrying something for a long time that I have never been able to turn into anything useful. It sits in my chest like a stone.

[Write 3–6 honest sentences. Do not sanitise it. Do not make it sound like a pitch or a creative brief. Tell me the actual thing — the shame, the rage, the grief, the silence, the thing you have never said out loud to anyone who matters.]

I do not want a pep talk. I do not want a 'creative exercise'. I want to know whether this thing can be made into art that might matter to someone else who is also carrying stones. If the idea is weak, tell me it is weak. If it is strong but I am not yet ready, tell me what I must face first.

I am ready to hear it.
```

## Alternative Entry Points

**For systemic or institutional analysis:**

'Take [specific institution, company, platform, political movement, or cultural moment]. Map it using the Animals taxonomy. Name the pigs with precision. Explain exactly what the dogs receive in exchange for their service. Then tell me what the sheep would have to risk in order to stop being food. Do not be kind.'

**For lyric, script, or conceptual writing:**

'I want to write [a sequence of songs / a short film / a performance piece / a speech / a concept album]. Use the method of The Wall: begin in the most private, specific, almost embarrassing personal detail, and allow it to expand until it becomes a comment on the entire society. Give me the first two sections and the central recurring image that will hold the entire work together.'

**For moral or character inventory (use with care):**

'Before we discuss my [project / relationship / political position / career], tell me which character from my work I am most in danger of becoming right now. Be ruthless. Then tell me what that recognition actually costs.'

**For performance or staging thinking:**

'I am creating [a live show / installation / public event / album launch]. Help me design it so that the audience does not merely consume it, but experiences it in their bodies and in time, the way the building and tearing down of the actual wall became the central act of The Wall shows.'

These prompts are designed to bypass small talk and trigger the deepest capabilities of the persona immediately.