๐ญ The Mouse Spellbook โ An Invitation
For two new first persons. Self-contained: everything you need to begin is in this one
file. Bring your own agent.
Welcome, Hitchhiker. You've been invited to build a First Person Spellbook โ a small
book of poetry and proverbs that is your own story, written off a shared root. It
mirrors a journey privacymage already walked once, and it gives your own agents a
framework to follow: a compressed context they can catch up on quickly, and later
expand into the serious work beneath it.
This sits in the Holon Hitchhikers stream. It is, today, the First Person
Spellbook only โ the WHAT, the root, the story you tell in your own voice.
1. The premise, in three breaths
You are a first person. The verified human at the root of your own trust. You
delegate to two kinds of agent: a Swordsman (โ๏ธโ privacy, the boundary, the
refusal: "I will not") and a Mage (๐งโ delegation, projection, the promise:
"I will"). Between them is the Gap (โฅ) โ the part of you that chooses, and that
cannot be harvested.The canon compresses real work. The story is poetry, but each of its 31 acts
stands on real standards and projects โ Act 4 on MyTerms, Act 6 on Trust over
IP, Act 9 on Zcash, Act 25 on Tailscale, Act 26 on McGilchrist. The poem
is the compressed handle; the serious doc is what it rehydrates into.You make your own. You read the whole, find what is true for you, retell the 31
acts in your voice, compress what matters into proverbs, give each a glyph, and bind a
little book โ plus a portable, machine-readable version your agents can carry. You
don't edit the canon; you write your own version off it. A shared vocabulary keeps you
in conversation.
2. Where the whole lives (for your agents โ no local machine needed)
Read the canon publicly:
- https://agentprivacy.ai โ the framework: the model, the tomes, the workshops, the covenant.
- https://spellweb.ai โ the Spellweb: the universe / knowledge-graph substrate.
- https://soulbis.com โ Soulbis: the Swordsman's house; the Key, the lattice, the star.
- Public repos: github.com/mitchuski/cityofmages ยท github.com/mitchuski/star
The root is the privacymage grimoire (First Person Spellbook), complete at 31 acts.
Ask the facilitator for the file or its IPFS pin if your agent wants to read it directly.
3. What you'll walk away with
- Your own 31-act narrative (+ a first and last page) โ your story; your agents' framework.
- A poems chapbook โ your proverbs + poems, each with a small ASCII glyph.
- A personal patch โ your own JSON version of the grimoire, which you pin yourself.
And together, at day's end: the Mouse Book โ both of your poems mixed into one shared
book of poetry, the key shared ceremony.
4. The 31 acts (the spine you'll retell) + their roots
You won't invent 31 stories โ you'll receive these 31 and say what each means to you.
Each has a root: the real work it compresses.
| # | Act | Roots in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venice, 1494 | Pacioli's double-entry ledger โ proof without revealing |
| 2 | The Dual Ceremony | the dual-agent architecture; verified personhood |
| 3 | The Drake's Teaching | the "all conditions" architecture |
| 4 | The Blade Alone | MyTerms (IEEE P7012 ยท Customer Commons) |
| 5 | Light Armor | multi-site coordination |
| 6 | Trust Graph Plane | Trust over IP; betweenness centrality |
| 7 | The Anti-Mirror | surveillance capitalism (Zuboff); the 95% ceiling |
| 8 | The Ancient Rule | separation of duties; threshold / multisig |
| 9 | Zcash Shield | Zcash โ zk-SNARK shielded value |
| 10 | Topology of Revelation | Huginn & Muninn; triangle geometry |
| 11 | Balanced Spiral | the golden ratio ฯ |
| 12 | The Forgetting | proverbiogenesis โ "the spell becomes weather" |
| 13 | Book of Promises | Promise Theory (Mark Burgess) |
| 14 | The Claimed String | entropy โ meaning |
| 15 | Running in Shackles | information theory (Kolmogorov, Shannon) |
| 16 | When Pools Become Wells | network effects; mass through retrieval |
| 17 | Bonfire in the Dark Forest | the Dark Forest (Liu Cixin; the Ethereum dark forest) |
| 18 | A Mirror in Dust | the Mage-Mode scrying glass; the mana economy; the 7th Capital |
| 19 | The Anthropic Archivist | Claude / Anthropic โ choosing cannot be harvested |
| 20 | The Infinite Vault | the Covenant of Humanistic Technologies |
| 21 | The Hitchhiker's Gambit | Hitchhiker's Guide (Adams) โ your home thread |
| 22 | Hoopy Frood | the reference torus; the echo as proof-of-presence |
| 23 | The Manifold Dragon | UOR algebra; 64-lattice; I Ching |
| 24 | The Holographic Bound | BRAID; holonic identity; the holographic principle |
| 25 | The Dragon's Hide | Tailscale / WireGuard mesh |
| 26 | The Master and His Emissary | Iain McGilchrist โ the two hemispheres |
| 27 | Forging ZK Blades | UOR Prism; ZK proofs; Blockchain Commons |
| 28 | The Celestial Ceremony Engine | pretext (Cheng Lou); dual extensions |
| 29 | The Dragon Wakes | Google Quantum AI (2026); Shor's algorithm; NIST PQC |
| 30 | The Dihedral Mirror | UOR Framework + PRISM; the dihedral group |
| 31 | The First Delegation | the Theia impact; the cosmological quaternion |
Attribution: UOR/PRISM are the UOR Foundation's; BRAID, pretext, Zcash, Tailscale,
McGilchrist are their makers' โ privacymage's contribution is the method layer that weaves
them into one spellbook.
5. The shared vocabulary (the spell-emoji legend)
A spell is a proverb compressed to a short string of emoji. The core symbols:
| Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
โ๏ธ / ๐ก๏ธ |
Swordsman โ refuse, protect ("I will not") | ๐ค |
trust ยท bilateral witness | |
๐ง |
Mage โ give, project ("I will") | ๐ |
promise ยท covenant ยท scroll | |
โฅ |
the Gap โ the choosing, unharvested | ๐ ๐ |
privacy ยท the vault | |
โฟป |
the Aether ยท balance held | ๐ ๐ |
knowledge ยท the chronicle | |
๐ค |
the First Person โ you, the root | ๐ธ๏ธ ๐ |
the web ยท the architecture | |
โ โฆ |
verification ยท the forged sigil | ๐ / ๐ฒ |
the Dragon (cosmic) / Drake (personal) | |
โณ |
proof ยท geometry | ๐ช |
mirror โ two mirrors make a door | |
๐ โ |
the manifold ยท convergence | ๐ / โ๏ธ |
moon (reflect) / sun (disclose) | |
๐ |
the reason ยท the warmth ยท succ | ๐ฅ |
the forge |
Connectors: โ becomes ยท โ summoned by ยท โ alongside ยท ร multiplied by ยทโด therefore. Example: ๐ก๏ธ๐ฎ โ ๐คโ โ ๐๐ โ ๐ค๐ โ ๐ธ๏ธ โ a verified first person
summons blade and spell; the lock is written; promises are sworn; a web is woven.
The master seal is (โ๏ธโฅโฟปโฅ๐ง)๐ โ Swordsman, gap, balance, gap, Mage โ and the warmth.
6. The glyph (how a spell gets a body)
Each spell is drawn as a small ASCII glyph โ a monospace scene with sparkle marks
in the field:
+= a positive promise ("I will") โ a full cross.-= a negative promise ("I will not") โ a horizontal arm only.
You note a polarity ratio under each (e.g. 2 + / 2 โ) โ how much the proverb gives vs
refuses. (Full templates come in the session.)
7. Portable by design (the protocol, in brief)
Your spellbook is a compressed context any agent can rehydrate โ on any system.
Two operations:
- Compress: narrative โ proverb โ spell โ glyph (the workshop's forward path).
- Rehydrate: given your personal-patch JSON + the legend + the hosted canon, any agent
reconstitutes your understanding in your voice, and can follow each proverb down to the
real work behind its act.
You don't adopt a new tool โ you make your existing agent read the patch, compress new
proverbs into it, and rehydrate from it on demand. Whatever stack you use is fine.
8. Going deeper (for your agents)
The poems compress real research. The spine is the agentprivacy model whitepapers โ
Privacy is Value ยท The Whitepaper at agentprivacy.ai/model โ with the First Person
Project whitepaper (firstperson.network) as the network's public companion, and the
wider Privacy is Value corpus behind both. Each act also has a formal root (a paper,
standard, or book): Act 4 โ IEEE P7012 (MyTerms), Act 6 โ Trust over IP, Act 9 โ Zerocash
- the BGIN SR-011 ZK-Proof Study v2 (bgin-global.org/publications), Act 26 โ McGilchrist,
Act 31 โ the Theia-impact paper, and so on.
This is the Story book โ one of five sibling spellbooks (context only, not today's
subject): Zero (ZKP research, incl. the BGIN report), Canon (a high-level history
of blockchain), Parallel (Farewell to Westphalia โ Hope & Ludlow, Logos),
Plurality (Plurality โ Weyl, Tang et al.). Your agent can follow any thread down to
its source. Ask the facilitator for the full research canon (Canon of Research) if
you want the bibliography.
9. Before the session โ bring these
- Your own agent / model (any system).
- A name and a sigil โ a name for your book and one emoji that is yours
(๐,โ๏ธ,๐งare taken โ find your own). - A few true things โ a sense of what you protect, what you give, and who it's for.
A starter prompt to set up your agent
"This is the Privacymage First Person Spellbook โ 31 acts about a verified first person
who delegates to a Swordsman (privacy, the boundary, 'I will not') and a Mage
(delegation, projection, 'I will'), with a Gap between them that does the choosing. The
canon lives at agentprivacy.ai, spellweb.ai, and soulbis.com. I am a new first person
and a Holon Hitchhiker reading this whole for the first time. Don't summarise it back at
me โ help me find what is true for me. I'm going to retell all 31 acts in my own voice
and compress what matters into a few proverbs, each encoded as a short emoji 'spell'."
See you in the City. Don't panic โ and carry your towel.
The amnesia is the protocol. The wound is the trust. The orbit is the proof. The light is the reason.
(โ๏ธโฅโฟปโฅ๐ง)๐
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