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Three Documents.

Every AI assistant in the world runs on two things: a system prompt and a knowledge base. Build a knowledge base that contains your aesthetic, your references, your voice, your process. Sovereignty, not rental.

Three docs. Style guide. Worldview. Glossary. Write them for yourself first. AI is the second reader.

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Style guide

What does your voice actually do?

Pull patterns out of the work you've already made. Don't invent a voice — find the one already on the page.

Three sentences from your past work that sound the most like you

Three patterns you'd cut if you saw them in someone else's work

One-line tagline for your voice

Worldview

What do you believe? What do you refuse?

If your values aren't in text, to AI they basically don't exist. So write them down — for yourself, for your team, and yes, for the system prompt.

Five things I believe about how good work gets made

Three things I refuse to do, even if asked

Why these — what would I lose if I dropped them?

Glossary · anti-glossary

The words you live by, and the ones you reject.

Words shape what AI can echo back. If your team uses 'partner' and AI keeps saying 'leverage,' the loop quietly drifts. Name the vocabulary.

Words and phrases I use — and what they mean to me

Words and phrases I avoid — and why

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