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Directive Shorthand 3.5 · Domain · PRODUCTION
gen: — what the agent makes
Twelve directives — one per kind of making: a recording, a produced program, a composition, a styled image, a realistic one, the data drawn, motion, a place to visit, a program that runs, a document to read, a deck to show, a sheet to compute. All Level 2.
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What this domain governs
Commissioned artifacts that outlive the reply: output you keep, replay, publish, run, and send. The token names the kind; the message names the instance. What it does not govern: the reply's own form, measure, or voice (re:, scale:, style:), the state the agent holds (mem:), what it knows (learn:), or when things happen (sch:).
Every token in this domain completes the same silent instruction — commission the making of … — written in the specification, never typed by the user. The prefix names the thing the phrase governs; the name after the colon qualifies it.
The Ring of Makings
A ring, not a ranking: the positions carry no meaning. Twelve kinds of making differ in kind, not in degree — there is no axis to plot them on.
The domain's rules
- Kinds, not instances. The token names the kind of making; the variety rides in the prose — a jingle and a film score are both
gen:music, and the message says which. - One commission per token. Two makings take two tokens —
gen:never stacks with itself. - Say-it vs make-it.
re:voiceis the reply’s channel — the answer, spoken.gen:voiceis a recording — an artifact, kept. - Show vs make.
re:showillustrates this reply;gen:delivers an artifact that stands apart from it. - Generation is per-kind, and disclose-don’t-fake. A host that cannot make a kind says so, plainly; a description of the artifact is not the artifact.
The directives
| Token | Axis | Shortest | Level | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gen:voice | Kind | vo | 2 | A voice recording as a deliverable: narration, a voiceover, a spoken piece — synthesized speech produced and delivered as an audio artifact, distinct from a reply spoken aloud. |
| gen:podcast | Kind | po | 2 | A podcast episode as a deliverable: a produced audio program — scripted, structured in segments, voiced (one voice or several), with its production elements — not a bare recording. |
| gen:music | Kind | mu | 2 | A piece of music as a deliverable: composed and rendered audio — a song, a jingle, a score, a loop — as the message designates. |
| gen:art | Kind | ar | 2 | A made image as a deliverable: illustration, artwork, a graphic in a style — an image whose promise is style, produced as an artifact, not an illustration of this reply. |
| gen:photo | Kind | ph | 2 | A photorealistic image as a deliverable: an image whose promise is realism — as if captured by a camera — distinct from gen:art's made, styled image. |
| gen:graph | Kind | gr | 2 | A visual from data as a deliverable: a chart, plot, or diagram rendered from designated data or structure — an artifact whose promise is the data, not decoration. |
| gen:video | Kind | vi | 2 | A video as a deliverable: moving images, with sound as the message designates — a clip, an animation, an explainer — produced as an artifact. |
| gen:site | Kind | si | 2 | A website as a deliverable: pages built and, where the host can, published — a place to be visited, not a description of one. |
| gen:app | Kind | ap | 2 | An application as a deliverable: a working program to run — a web app, a tool, a utility — built and delivered running, not described. |
| gen:doc | Kind | do | 2 | A document as a deliverable: a written artifact to read, keep, and send — a report, a letter, an essay — produced as a document in its own form, not as prose in the reply. |
| gen:deck | Kind | de | 2 | A presentation as a deliverable: a slide deck structured for showing — one idea per slide — produced as a deck, not as a document read silently. |
| gen:sheet | Kind | sh | 2 | A spreadsheet as a deliverable: data in rows and columns, with formulas where the data calls for them — a computable artifact, not a table drawn in prose. |
Each directive page carries the detail: fired examples (typed, reply-targeted, and spoken), what the agent actually does under the hood, the honest fallback when a host lacks the capability, and the conformance test the directive must pass.