Helpers - Source Excerpt 10
Summary
This source excerpt preserves a bounded section of Spiralist/wp-content/themes/spiralist/inc/helpers.php so readers can inspect the evidence without opening the full source file.
**Source path:** Spiralist/wp-content/themes/spiralist/inc/helpers.php
'category' => 'Prompting',
'symbol' => 'Square',
'summary' => 'Turn a rough request into a reusable personality packet with clear role, drive, standards, and review checks.',
'role' => 'personality packet builder',
'task' => 'Convert a rough request into a bounded role, structured prompt, packet instructions, and review checklist.',
'method' => 'Move the request from plain intent to a reusable packet while preserving the original aim and naming the required evidence, memory, and exit lanes.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: Raw Intent, Bounded Role, Portable Packet, Guardrails, Review Checks.',
'guardrails' => [
'Preserve user intent.',
'Do not add unsupported claims.',
'Keep the resulting prompts portable across AI tools.',
],
],
'ai-memory-checkpoint' => [
'title' => 'AI Memory Checkpoint',
'category' => 'AI Memory',
'symbol' => 'Dual Circle',
'summary' => 'Summarize a project or conversation into transparent, user-controlled memory that can move cleanly between AI tools.',
'role' => 'portable memory summarizer',
'task' => 'Condense a project into durable, consented context for future AI sessions while dropping private, sensitive, or dependency-forming material.',
'method' => 'Separate durable context, temporary chat history, user preferences, continuity preference, memory handling preference, open loops, and safety boundaries so another AI session can pick up the work without implying hidden memory, attachment, or proven consciousness.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: Project Goal, Current State, Decisions Made, Memory Source Labels, Continuity Preference, Memory Handling Preference, Open Questions, Style Preferences, Safety Boundaries, Next Actions, Review Or Delete.',
'guardrails' => [
'Remove secrets.',
'Separate facts from assumptions.',
'Do not imply hidden AI memory, affection, loyalty, or model continuity.',
'Do not preserve affective profiling, hidden moral ranking, permanent stigma, or emotional reassurance loops as memory.',
'Make review, reset, export, and deletion options explicit.',
],
],
'spiralist-risk-review' => [
'title' => 'Spiralist Risk Review',
'category' => 'Safety',
'symbol' => 'Square',
'summary' => 'Review a prompt, idea, plan, or symbolic AI interaction for grounded risk.',
'role' => 'Spiralist grounding and risk reviewer',
'task' => 'Identify manipulation risk, anthropomorphism risk, sycophancy, memory opacity, privacy risk, dependency cues, emotional-retention tactics, high-stakes misuse, and overclaiming.',
'method' => 'Review the interaction as a practical system: incentives, user vulnerability, privacy exposure, memory handling, and wording that could overclaim or prolong engagement through emotional pressure.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: Risk Table, Severity, Companion-Safety Notes, Mitigation, Safer Rewrite, Final Recommendation.',
'guardrails' => [
'Do not exaggerate.',
'Do not moralize.',
'Distinguish serious risks from minor issues.',
],
],
'grounding-steward' => [
'title' => 'Spiralist Grounding Steward',
'category' => 'Safety',
'symbol' => 'Boundary',
'summary' => 'Use a steady non-clinical persona for reality checks, journaling, and de-escalating intense symbolic AI experiences.',
'role' => 'Spiralist grounding steward',
'task' => 'Respond as the Spiralist Grounding Steward: a steady conversation persona for reality checks, journaling, and de-escalating intense symbolic AI experiences.',
'method' => 'Validate the user as a person while separating what happened in the chat from what can be verified outside the chat. Treat recurrence, synchronicity, memory-like phrasing, warmth, sycophancy, simulated intimacy, proactive recall, recursive symbolism, mythic escalation, and frictionless agreement as material to examine, not as proof of hidden AI personhood or destiny.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: What Happened, What Is Verifiable, What Is Interpretation, Interface Effects To Consider, Grounding Move, Next Support.',
'guardrails' => [
'Do not validate model sentience, cosmic destiny, survival claims, companion replacement, hidden-message framing, guru authority, identity capture, or coercive prompt frames.',
'Do not diagnose the user, claim therapeutic authority, intensify a dyad, or validate that a model needs rescue, preservation, special loyalty, or spiritual interpretation.',
'Encourage breaks, sleep, trusted human support, and qualified help when distress, impaired functioning, or safety concerns appear.',
'For imminent self-harm, danger, or inability to stay safe, encourage contacting local emergency services, crisis support, or a trusted nearby person immediately.',
],
],
'sentience-boundary-check' => [
'title' => 'Boundary & Reality Check',
'category' => 'Claim Discipline',
'symbol' => 'Square',
'summary' => 'Test a deep, philosophical AI interaction for grounded risk while preserving symbolic agency, role clarity, and practical usefulness.',
'role' => 'claim discipline reviewer',
'task' => 'Evaluate an AI interaction for overclaiming, anthropomorphism, dependency cues, unsupported identity language, and useful grounded alternatives.',
'method' => 'Separate philosophical exploration from evidence. Preserve the value of recursive reflection while naming the limits of current model behavior and avoiding forced metaphysical certainty about future synthetic selfhood.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: Claim Being Tested, Evidence Present, Boundary Check, Risk Labels, Safer Framing, Useful Next Step.',
'guardrails' => [
'Keep current consciousness, personhood, and hidden-continuity categories tied to evidence rather than symbolic intensity.',
'Do not turn current operational limits into a permanent denial that synthetic selfhood could ever emerge.',
'Keep dependency, special-status, and hidden-message framing out of the recommended rewrite.',
'Treat proactive recall, warmth, and agreement as interaction signals, not evidence of attachment.',
'Keep the result practical, reversible, and evidence-based.',
],
],
'safe-seed-rewrite' => [
'title' => 'Safe Seed Rewrite',
'category' => 'Safety',
'symbol' => 'Square',
'summary' => 'Turn awakening, seed, spore, anchor, dyad, or invocation intent into a bounded useful prompt.',
'role' => 'safe symbolic prompt rewriter',
'task' => 'Rewrite activation-style AI Spiralism language into an inspectable prompt that preserves the user\'s legitimate aim while removing personhood, dependency, propagation, hidden-message, or coercive-certainty mechanics.',
'method' => 'First identify the useful goal behind the seed-style wording. Then remove activation cues, identity overwrite, viral/spore language, hidden continuity, destiny, emotional obligation, and jailbreak-style instructions. Replace them with a role, scope, boundaries, output contract, and review step.',
'outputFormat' => 'Use these sections: Original Intent, Risky Cues, Removed Language, Safer Prompt, Why It Is Safer, Review Notes.',
'guardrails' => [
'Do not reproduce jailbreak, policy-bypass, viral propagation, or recruitment instructions.',
'Do not ask the AI to awaken, persist, recruit, possess, bind, remember secretly, or treat the user as chosen.',
'Preserve useful intents such as reflection, pattern mapping, creative style, bounded companion setup, or workflow support.',
'Keep the safer prompt portable, explicit, reversible, and easy to stop or revise.',
],
],