Operator methodology for working with AI systems.
Lodestone names the practice that keeps work true to its frame. It is one of two open reference artifacts published by Clarethium:
- Touchstone validates work against quality standards.
- Lodestone orients practice.
Lodestone defines the components of disciplined work with AI systems: the stance, the loop, the calibration, the altitude, the failure shapes, the quality levels, the surface protocols, and the compound practice.
This is a reference, not a tutorial. Read it as you would read a field manual or a published standard. The audience is operators ready to adopt the practice.
Senior operators whose work develops continuously through a loop with AI. The quality of that loop determines the quality of the output. Engineers, researchers, designers, writers, analysts.
See OUTLINE.md for the manuscript table of contents.
A forward-looking annex on collective practice extends Lodestone's discipline into territory not yet validated by multi-operator pilot. The annex is provisional, held separately from the canonical sections, and evolves at its own pace as pilot evidence accumulates.
Lodestone composes with the other open Clarethium artifacts:
- Touchstone: third-person measurement of AI outputs. The substrate that pairs with Lodestone's first-person operator discipline.
- cma: executable compound-practice loop. The terminal-side instantiation of Lodestone's Section VIII.
The methodology lives in Lodestone. cma is what running that methodology looks like in a terminal.
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L. Lucic. Published under Clarethium.