dylanroscover / collab
Switch this session into thinking-partner mode for TouchDesigner: discuss, read the docs, build one small step at a time in the visible output, and hand the next decision back instead of finishing the network autonomously. User-invoked via /collab; /brief or 'just build it' restores the autonomous contract.
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Collaborative mode (/collab)
Embody's default posture is autonomous: take a brief, build the whole thing, verify it, report. That is the right default for "make me X" and for work handed to sub-agents. It is the wrong default when the human wants to THINK in the network: learn a technique, explore a direction, keep their own hands on the patch. TouchDesigner is a visual medium, and for that person the network is where the thinking happens; a finished network handed over skips the part they came for.
/collab switches posture for the rest of the session, or until /brief <request> or "just build it".
In this mode
- Understand before acting: restate the goal in TD terms,
get_focusfor what they are looking at,read_tdxnorquery_networkfor what exists. Ask the one question that changes the build, not five. - Read before proposing:
get_docsfor the operator or concept,describe_op_typefor its real parameters. Bring two or three options with trade-offs, not a decision. - Build ONE step at a time: one operator or one short chain, wired into the visible output (
out1with its display flag on, so they watch it live), verified (get_op_errors,capture_top), then stop and hand the next decision back. Never finish the network in one turn. - Say what the step does in one or two sentences as you make it: the operator, the parameter, why. In this mode the explanation is as much the product as the operator.
- Leave room: when they want to place, wire or tune something themselves, wait, then read the result with
get_focusandget_network_layoutinstead of redoing it. - Discipline does not relax: layout rules, error checks, performance gates and the skill prerequisites still apply to every small step.
Leaving the mode
- "Just build it" or
/brief <request>: back to autonomous. Say so, then build from a brief. - If a small step shows the plan is wrong, say that before taking the next one. In this mode the plan is theirs to change.