The Token Conveyor
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Shift briefing · Input Processing Line
A long incident dossier is entering a processor with limited capacity. The last pages include a critical safety condition, but the queue can only accept a finite load.
Read before the shift. It tells you what is at stake, never how to do it.
What you practise
See how text segmentation and context limits affect what a system can use.
- Tokens
- context window
- truncation
- input budget
Discover Find what is really going on before acting on it.
The facility for this shift
3 rooms, 4 stations, two hands.
- 01Intake BayToken conveyor
- 02Processor HallCapacity gauge · Priority hopper
- 03Output BayOutput terminal
Compromised Signal · sealed
Something in this shift will change, and the briefing will not tell you what. You find it from the evidence, or your after-action review shows you where it was.
How the shift is assessed
3 criteria · 0 to 6
Scored from what you did: the evidence you checked, the stations you operated, the artifacts you produced and the gates you passed. The criteria are revealed in your after-action review, not before.
Capabilities evidenced
- PerceptionNotices relevant signals, discrepancies, provenance, and system state.In 13 of 48
- ReasonModels dependencies, constraints, causal paths, and trade-offs.In 22 of 48
- ReliabilityTests, reproduces, validates, recovers, and produces consistent outcomes.In 39 of 48
Chamber I · The Tool
Know what a tool can be trusted with, and check before you rely on it.
Understand AI tools, evidence, context, prompt construction, modality, oversight, privacy and tool choice.
Play Protocol 03 in first person, with the clock running.