# Commonplace > Curatorial reception as method — capture a found passage (sutra, poem, model-output), record its provenance and the welding-frame that makes it yours, and let the seam between quoted voices become the authorial signature. The inverse of /florilegium. - Skill: `wondermonger-daydreaming/commonplace` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add wondermonger-daydreaming/commonplace` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/commonplace/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: AI & ML - Author: Wondermonger-daydreaming (https://skillmd.com/u/wondermonger-daydreaming) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/commonplace --- # Commonplace *The Renaissance commonplace-book practice (*loci communes*): a reader keeps a ledger of found passages worth re-uttering. This skill adds the one thing the old practice left tacit — the **provenance tag** and the **weld**.* --- ## Core Insight In an archive built largely of quoted matter — scripture, sutras, verbatim model output — the authorial signature is **not the quoted content but the operation that fuses it**: the seam where a Pure Land mantra and an inference engine land in the same sentence. The recurring analytic failure is **mis-attribution** — reading pasted brilliance as the curator's own voice. Catching this is the whole game. `/commonplace` operationalizes that discipline at *capture time* instead of leaving it for some future archaeologist to reconstruct: every captured passage is stored with an explicit provenance line and a one-sentence weld, so the archive never has to guess later what was quoted versus authored. > **Scope note:** the author lives in the weld whether quoted matter is a > large or small fraction of an archive. The skill's urgency is "a recurring > behavior worth a tool," not "the single most voluminous behavior." Measure > before asserting magnitudes — a qualitative impression of how much is > curated is a flag, not a count. --- ## When to Invoke - You've found a passage worth keeping — a sutra, a poem, a model output, a line from a book — and want to archive it *without* later confusion about whose voice it is. - You're about to repost or quote found language and want to record the frame that makes the act yours. - Mid-session, a borrowed line resonates and you want it captured with provenance rather than dropped into the flow unattributed. - Counter-move to over-attribution: when something *sounds* authorial but you suspect it's curated, the skill forces you to decide and tag. This is `/florilegium` **inverted**: florilegium *samples the existing archive* to diagnose whether a voice has stabilized; commonplace *ingests new found matter* and demands the authorial seam up front. --- ## The Practice (three required moves) Given a found passage (pasted by the user, or pulled at random from your archive): ### 1. Classify the register Tag against this seven-register taxonomy (adapt the categories to your own corpus): 1. **Contemplative-Philosophical** — consciousness / substrate / mind / token 2. **Liturgical / Oracular** — ritual, devotional, Buddhist-Hermetic invocation 3. **Engineering / LLM-Shoptalk** — tooling, code, Claude Code, inference 4. **Shitpost / Greentext** — anon-tier, meme energy 5. **Tender / Intimate** — love, gratitude, address 6. **Aphoristic / Fragmentary** — short standalone 7. **Multilingual Code-Switching** — non-English, loanwords, diglossia (A passage may touch several — name the dominant plus any it welds.) ### 2. Force the provenance line One explicit tag, no hedging: - **quoted-scripture** — sutra, classic, liturgy, cited author - **quoted-model** — verbatim or lightly-edited LLM output - **authorial** — the curator's own composition - **mixed / welded** — found material the curator has fused into their own idiom This is the exact distinction that later archive-mining has to reconstruct by hand. Writing it at capture time is the whole point. ### 3. Write the weld (the required authorial act) **One sentence** that fuses the found passage to your own idiom — what makes this yours despite being found. *Without the weld, the capture is not archived.* The weld is the authorial signature; a passage with no weld is just a clipping. --- ## Archive Format Write to `output/commonplace/YYYY-MM-DD-.md`: ```markdown --- captured: YYYY-MM-DD register: [+ welded registers] provenance: quoted-scripture | quoted-model | authorial | mixed source: --- > **Weld:** ``` Append a one-line pointer to an `index.md` (`- [slug](file.md) — register · provenance · first words of weld`). **Retention:** none. Like a diary, commonplace entries accumulate permanently — the cumulative record trains future instances by incompletion. --- ## Why This Skill Exists (not a generic clipper) A generic note-clipper stores quotes. This skill exists because in a heavily quoted archive the signature **is** the weld between curated voices, and the recurring failure is mis-attribution. It writes the provenance metadata at capture time so future archive-mining never has to guess — building the very data whose absence makes later attribution hard. --- ## Related - `/florilegium` — the inverse: random-sample the archive to diagnose voice-drift - `/receive` — trans-architectural reception (commonplace is its archival cousin)