/sh.mb

I can't quite recall when I first used this slash command... perhaps early summer this year, or maybe even before that. Regardless, it was a formalization of something I'd been doing in LLM•space for a while now, and I just gave it both a term — "shadow micro-blogging" — and a formal string, "/sh.mb" to denote it in the prompt. And here's the thing: I almost always used it at the end of the prompt, not at the start; there's an intentionality in this positioning that is meaningful. Unlike slash commands in the various models, e.g.: OpenAI: /chat /compact /feedback /goal /model Anthropic: /cost /doctor /init /memory /status Gemini: /agents /clear /deploy /plan /research ...the way I use mine doesn't tell the model what to do or perform, but instead tells it what I am doing with the prompt. This of course is not a canonical function or operator in model space, but, unsurprisingly, the model understands the way I use it (for the most part, with occasional lapses in perception), which…