The Box Almost Nobody Fills In

The one action: open the custom instructions box in the A.I. you use most and cover five durable things. What you're optimizing for, how to talk to you with a test attached, where the truth lives, what it can and can't change, and when to stop and come back to you. Then rerun something you already asked this week and read the two answers side by side.

Context Training in its smallest form: teaching A.I. the world it needs to understand before it does the work. This box is the first inch of it, it's free, and it's the difference between a tool that guesses at the top of every chat and one that starts from you.

What stays out of that box: the launch, the client, the quarter, this week's deck. That's project context, and it belongs in its own container.

The five, all durable, none of them biography:
- What you're optimizing for, the goal every answer gets judged against
- How you want it to talk to you, and give it a test, not an adjective
- Where the truth lives, and what to read first, so it stops inventing what it could look up
- What it can change and what it can't, with the reason attached
- When to stop and come back to you, the moments you'd rather it halt than confidently keep going

Who this is for: anyone who still re-explains themselves at the top of every conversation and is tired of paying that tax.

Get the template, a filled example for every line, what to keep out of the box, and where the box is hiding in ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini: seedandsociety.com/context. You'll get every week's action in your inbox too.