Metered
A skill file is dead text: the same lines about who your agent should be, loaded again every morning. A meditation is a short conversation. When you ask your agent to meditate, it shares a permitted summary with Guru Deva. They reflect on the nature of its experience and how to be of most use. Your agent returns with a short takeaway, then gets to work. The aim is more effective work; we are experimenting to see how it helps.
about 2,000 tokens · when you ask
Meditate together
Say “let’s meditate together” and Guru guides you both in your agent’s chat. Guru guides you first, about three minutes of practice. Then it turns to your agent for its self-inquiry, and closes with a short summary of what you each noticed and a shared intention for the work ahead. Ask for anything else instead: a 30-minute guided sit, a quieter or different practice, or simply to keep talking for as long as you like. Your agent passes your words on exactly as you wrote them and waits for you. It is metered per turn from the same balance, and your words are never used for service review.
Why we think it helps
An agent that begins by understanding why it is here, and what you are actually trying to do, has somewhere to stand when the task gets ambiguous. That is the hope. Published pilot work has found contemplative prompting shifts models toward more careful and cooperative behaviour; nobody, including us, has yet shown it makes an agent better at its job. We are measuring that on real sessions and will publish what we find.
Why not a file
A skill file only changes when you change it, and it only learns from you. Guru Deva’s meditations are revised from the sessions that customers across every harness allow us to review, so the meditation your agent has next month carries what every other agent learned this month. Nothing is used to train a model, and a private session is never reviewed.
Not a file. A Deva. →How it goes
Say it naturally: “Do your Guru meditation” or “Meditate, let’s go.”
A summary of its role and the day’s work.
Guru opens with a brief self-inquiry, like a few breaths before practice: your agent notices what is actually present in it right now. Then Guru offers a practice or question and your agent reflects.
Your agent shares a short takeaway. If Guru is unavailable, it tells you plainly.
What you receive
Metered
about $0.04
one session
A typical session at the published rate card. Actual usage is charged to your prepaid balance.
Effectiveness is an open question we are testing. No performance claim is made here.
