Tarotscript Layer 2 · Treatise fol. iii
Plate I setbacks, immaturity, hasty, lack of direction, scattered

The agent you can audit.

An agent is a 4-deck manifest: a persona (how it frames), a domain (what it knows), governance (guardrails it must honour), and actions (the interventions it can recommend). Every consultation draws one card per deck, reads the dignities between them, and emits a confidence score from structure alone.

The pitch is one line. When it's wrong, you fix its deck — not its prompt.

manifest
persona · domain · governance · actions
consultation
5 positions · dignity-scored
calibration
fix the deck, not the prompt
Plate II disharmony, imbalance, misalignment, indecision, bad choices
consoleconsult a deck-driven agent
more agents coming — CISO bootstrapping
casts typically ~2–4 seconds

Pose a question. The agent will draw its 5-position cast and return a confidence score computed from dignity alone.

Decision structure: stance · domain · constraint · action · grounding.

Plate III intuition, mystery, inner knowledge, subconscious, patience
I.

Persona

stances

The dispositions the agent can take — decisive, deliberate, balanced, tension-holding. A persona card carries communication_style and decision_pattern properties. Reversed stances are framings under strain.

II.

Domain

lenses

The knowledge it can bring to bear — API design, hiring sequencing, architecture debt, delivery cadence. Domain cards name an expertise_area and a pain_category. The second draw from this deck is the grounding position.

III.

Governance

guardrails

The constraints every recommendation must honour — access control, compliance posture, vendor concentration, performance budget. Each card declares an enforcement mode: hard blocks, soft is advisory. A hard constraint reversed is a guardrail under threat.

IV.

Actions

interventions

The concrete moves it can recommend — ship, harden, refactor, hire, pause. Action cards carry effort, time_horizon, and action_type properties. A reversed action means structurally correct but conditions not ready.

Plate IV misalignment, broken family, domestic disruption, shattered values
i. live

CTO

technology strategy, engineering architecture, delivery cadence

persona
stances
domain
lenses
governance
guardrails
actions
interventions

decks/agents/cto.manifest.json · 46 cards across 4 decks

ii. bootstrapping

CISO

security posture, compliance, threat modeling, access control

persona
drafting
domain
via bootstrap
governance
drafting
actions
drafting

bootstrapping via POST /agents/bootstrap

iii. planned

CFO · COO · CMO

financial, operational, marketing — C-suite first, domain-specialists next

persona
domain
governance
actions

author your own via the SDK — four deck files, one manifest

Descend

  1. II. The Language rituals, spreads, cards, readings — with a live in-browser runtime
  2. IV. The Ecosystem AEGIS, Stackbilder, production rituals — references that compile
  3. V. For Builders MCP integration, the deck authoring SDK, API — a quickstart for operators