A resource I bring to my ICM work - It helps me, hope it helps you 😅

Hey everyone 👋 Bas here. I wanted to share something that's been a foundational tool in my toolkit, especially when I'm working with ICM (Interpretable Context Methodology). I had someone asked me about this in the community and it helps me, hope it can help you too.

Full transparency: I built this. It's called Praxis Library 📚 (praxislibrary.com/learn/index.html), a free, open knowledge platform covering 177 AI communication frameworks and techniques with a 5,324-term glossary and 254 academically sourced citations.

Why I'm sharing it here: 🤔

When I'm building with ICM, structuring context files, designing coaching systems, writing identity docs, or really whenever I am planning or interactive with AI, I find that understanding the fundamental architecture behind how AI processes input and generates output makes my work sharper.

The examples are the vocabulary and mental models I bring to the table when I sit down to build. 🧠

A few examples of what's in there and how I use them: 👇

🌟 CO-STAR Framework breaks prompting into Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, and Response. When I'm writing an identity.md or rules.md for an ICM project, I'm thinking through these same dimensions. CO-STAR gave me the language for what I was already doing intuitively, which made me more deliberate about it.

🏎️ RACE Framework is Role, Action, Context, Expected Output. Before I write a single line in a CLAUDE.md file, I'm running RACE in my head: what role is this system playing, what actions does it take, what context does it need, what should the output look like? It's a quick sanity check that catches gaps before they become problems.

🔗 Chain-of-Thought / Few-Shot / Zero-Shot Techniques help me design better examples.md files. When I write worked dialogues for an ICM project, I'm essentially building few-shot examples. Knowing the research behind why that works makes me more intentional about which examples I include and how I structure them.

Everything on the site is free, zero dependencies, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Just the content. ✅

If any of these frameworks or techniques help sharpen how you think about your own builds, that's a win. Happy to answer questions about any of them. 💬

Have a great day and keep believing in yourself, keep dreaming of the future, keep building it! 🫡 Bas

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