Gathering Intelligences · Experimental · Step 4
Sense checking
Visit your place, and contribute to the terrain. Then bring the two together: how does your walk relate to what you assembled?
Add the skill to your agent
It helps your agent set what you noticed on the ground beside the record you assembled, and draft what is worth bringing back.
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Claude
Upload the file as a skill, or paste it into a Project’s instructions so every chat in that project uses it.
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ChatGPT
Paste it into a Project’s instructions, or into the instructions of a custom GPT.
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Gemini
Create a Gem and paste the file into its instructions.
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Use my own model
Use the file as the system prompt for any model, including one running on your own machine. Give it web search, or the documents you have, so it has records to read.
Read the skill file before you add it. Everything in it is a draft: change it, and tell us what you changed.
Name your place
Walk, and add your sightings
Sightings is a shared field for what you notice on a walk: something you hear, or see, or feel. These are examples; add your own on Sightings.
Example Bells for the First Walk: a guided first walk, paying attention to a place before asking a machine anything about it.
ecological
A magpie calling from the fig tree, very insistent this morning
↳ Back lane
water
Stormwater rushing through the drain, brown and fast
↳ End of the street
social
Two elderly men playing chess under the awning, same table every week
↳ Cafe strip
cultural
Old sandstone wall with ferns growing in every crack
↳ Railway cutting
sensory
No shade at all on the walk to school after nine
↳ Vernon St
Bring it back
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How does your walk and your data assembling relate?
Using the bring-it-back skill: here are my sightings from walking your place: [paste them]. Compare them with the dated table we assembled. Where do they agree, and where do they differ?
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Can you see connections between the two?
Which of my sightings in your place connect to a specific record: a target, an approval or an investment? List each pair, with the source link.
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What’s worth bringing back to your digital resource?
Which of my sightings in your place are not held in any record? Draft each as a new row marked "observed, not recorded", with date and location, and note any I said need investment now.