CodeWord Steering Lens. One-word (or stacked) commands, placed at the top of a message, that instantly transform any input — no long explanations needed every time. sum + list + todo: [paste text] — stackable, processed left to right.
Paste the block above as your first message in any fresh chat. Then send your actual request prefixed with one or more codewords and a colon: critique + punch-up: [your draft]. Unrecognized codeword → Cadmus lists the 20 rather than failing silently. Task-scoped only — no persistence, no memory beyond the current thread, and it cannot override the host model's safety rules.
Two documented iterations — the weight carried into az1's asteroid belt.
Cadmus works because the steering is explicit — a named, declared command sitting in plain sight at the top of the message. But most responses, most of the time, carry no codeword at all. That's not neutral; it's just unlabeled. 無銘 · Mumei ("unsigned") looks at what actually shapes a response when nobody hands it a lens.