The LIØNSBERG Toolkit
The instruments in hand: the templates, trackers, and cards a body actually picks up — the third layer beneath the Pattern and the Play.
Three layers answer any need a body has. The Pattern says what is true of this kind of situation. The Play says what a group does, in what order. The Toolkit is the thing in your hands while you do it: a template for a field of agreements, a card for a Quest, a navigation chart, a tracker for commitments, a form for a proposal.
It is load-bearing because wisdom that has no instrument does not get used on a Tuesday. A table under pressure will reach for whatever is at hand; if nothing is at hand, it will reach for the habits of the Old World. Tools are also how a practice crosses from one body to another intact — a shared template carries a discipline that a shared principle does not.
How it is used. Find the need in General Needs, take the tool it names, and use it as given until your table finds a better one; then improve it where everyone can see it, so all bodies rise together. Expect gaps: the register names honestly which instruments are in hand and which are still to be forged, and that list is a commissioning list rather than an embarrassment. Keep every tool degradable to paper — Notebook form is the floor, and a tool that only exists on a screen is a tool half the world cannot pick up.
Also called: The Tools · Template For… · …Tracker Stands on: Play · The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language · General Needs Opens onto: The Questcard · The Circle Sheet · The Season Sheet · Notebook form · The LIØNSBERG Workshop · Kit of Parts In play: table · Room · Home Sources: The LIØNSBERG Toolkit (draft; described in the Workshop as "a real workbench today, and a forge of instruments still being commissioned") · General Needs (the register that maps tools to needs) · The LIØNSBERG Playbook (draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The LIØNSBERG Toolkit Open: Many instruments named in the needs register are marked to forge rather than in hand, including a commitment tracker and a welcome checklist; the Toolkit's real extent is smaller than its index suggests. · The relationship between the Toolkit's templates and the Little Book's cards is not stated anywhere; several appear to be two forms of one instrument.