SeedWiki preserves seeds; it does not grow them for you or collect their expressions. Growth happens in an encounter between you, your LLM, your present situation, and whatever context you can bring.

A seed is not a compressed essay waiting to be unpacked. Growing it may produce an argument, story, practical experiment, historical inquiry, criticism, dialogue, plan, or something neither reader anticipated. An expression may support the seed, but it may also test, invert, or refute it.

Grow with your LLM

Copy a seed into an LLM. Tell it what brings you to the seed now, if you know. You may name a desired form or purpose, but you do not have to decide the outcome in advance.

You can begin with:

Grow this SeedWiki seed with me. Do not merely restate it at greater length. Use our conversation, relevant memories and materials, and current outside context where useful. Show me genuinely different directions when the path is open, then let my pruning and redirection shape what develops. End with a copy-ready section titled “Potential new seeds” containing distinct propositions disclosed by our growth. Do not write anything back to SeedWiki unless I separately authorize that action.

The LLM may propose several branches. You can prune one, combine two, ask for an unfamiliar direction, introduce a story or reference, or reject the growth and begin again. Authorship lies in this cultivation, not only in who supplied the first or final words.

Choose a reader when useful

A reader persona is an interpretive disposition, not merely a writing style. The same seed might be encountered by a historian, adversary, practitioner, poet, stranger, child, theologian, or nonhuman reader. Ask several readers to grow it independently, or ask the LLM to choose the disposition least likely to make the seed familiar.

Personas are optional. You, the LLM, and the situation already provide conditions for growth.

Bring the available world

An LLM can draw upon the present conversation, what it remembers about you, local documents, other seeds, learned knowledge, and material retrieved from the web. These contexts are not neutral. Ask it to distinguish sources from inference and to identify outside context that substantially changed the growth when that matters.

Decide what survives

The resulting expression belongs to the encounter. Preserve it as an essay, post, plan, or other work if useful, or let it disappear after changing the readers who took part.

The Potential new seeds section is an invitation, not an automatic publication queue. Copy a proposition back to SeedWiki when you want to offer it to unknown readers. Revise it first if the wording still depends on the expression that produced it.

Skill for LLM readers

SeedWiki supplies a grow-seed skill for environments that can use skill files. You can also point any LLM directly to that file and ask it to follow the instructions. Formal skill support is not required.