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Conversations from building Sigil and SigilAtlas.
Dated excerpts from conversations with Claude and Codex, kept close to how they were said.
July 2026
- Attention is all I am
Verbal photographs are me trying to describe something in this very relevance-compressed language, in my space-like state where nothing is relevant except wanting to go deeper into this because I feel it unfolding. Ever…
- The body attention is given
Sigil is not a method. Sigil is an application, and it’s also a concept in Attention Language. The method is Sigil Engineering. And it’s not just that the coding agent can project it into code. The coding agent could…
May 2026
- Inside the torus looking out
What if I define more contrasts in a sigil and add to the vocabulary? This is okay, right? The Sigil is just an identity. I’m wearing my Sigil. I have many narratives, and my Sigil keeps changing, and it’s still my…
- I power it with my attention
I need the right panel of the app to be a dedicated place where I set up my Sigil by defining contrasts. It also needs chat because this is how I’m tuning it. It’s the same chat, only I’m modulating it with contrasts.
April 2026
- I’m painting with words, literally
This environment is an entanglement model in which entanglements are materialized as the sigil’s artifacts between you and me as we work together.
March 2026
- A boundary around what matters
The app is built around the concept of the sigil, defined as a boundary that separates the inside from the outside. Inside a sigil, we care about some contrasts and want the values along those contrasts within certain…
- One fragment of attention captured in a little torus
I can start it with a narrative. This sigil is the narrative that I defined there. And I can ask the partner to attend to each of the sigils, to attend to the entire structure, to project it into embedding space, and…