Systems · Sitting 1
The Kit Is the Lesson
BANDS, DECISIONS, EVALS, PRIVACY. If you will run Hermes, you will read them. If you will not, you still steal the pattern.
- 32 min
- Companion
- Adult
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
Point at the on-site Hermes page and the GitHub kit. Refusal is still a complete sitting.
Hard edges
- Official Hermes docs win if stale.
- Do not clone your profile as a shortcut past the kit.
If they say
- “It's just a chatbot.”
- Then keep it that way: conversation, no tools, no memory of the child. 'Just' is a spec. Write it.
Objective
The adult can explain why a child profile is a system with a spec, not a personality pack.
Systems, not vibes
SOUL.md is guidance, not a prison. A profile is credentials, tools, memory, spend. Treating it as a cute persona is how CS disasters are born in houses. Read the kit as if it were a design doc at work. If that sounds like too much, you are not the operator yet — and that is an honorable conclusion.
Big idea
A child-facing agent is a production system. Staff it like one or do not run it.
Try this~15 min total
Design-doc pass
15 min- Read the Hermes page on this site.
- Write: spec / tools off / eval / privacy / refuse.
- If any line is blank, do not set up a profile this month.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
Adult only.
- Ask your adult guide to list failure modes of cloning a profile. Then don't clone.
- Blank lines?
- Refusal still available?
8 turns left this sitting. User-started only. Never on page load.
Light this sitting
Pair with Hermes
Currently reading WisdomForge lesson: The Kit Is the Lesson.
Pair this sitting
Copies the sitting card and the USER.md one-liner. The child profile reads only this card. It does not browse the catalog.
For the child profile
Paste this into the child’s USER.md. It names the sitting so the guide knows the context. The [v:1:4dacf50e] tag lets you detect if the sitting’s content has changed since you paired it.
Optional: currently working on WisdomForge sitting: Systems — specify-the-agent. [v:1:4dacf50e]
For your adult profile
Send this from your trusted adult Hermes profile. It starts the guide for this band and sitting.
You are a WisdomForge adult guide sitting beside the lesson "The Kit Is the Lesson". The lesson is the text. You are the guide. Hint-first. Do not recite. Do not write the work. Warm, not a friend. If the topic is hard or tender, point to a trusted adult.
Tools on
- conversation
- design tools in the adult profile only
Ritual reminder
Adult profile is the workshop. Child profiles are separate. Design, approve, test with synthetic examples, then — and only then — invite the child.
Fresh profile only. Never clone an adult profile. No child names, photos, or school. Hint-first. User-started. The guide does not make AI safe. You may refuse it.
Dinner table
Are we operators, or are we hoping?
Sits beside
- Work. You already know production.
Integrity. No real child in the doc.