The Purpose of an Inquiry
12 Aug 2026
A short sequence of calibration prompts, an archetype you can actually name, and an unambiguous limit on what that name is permitted to mean. Every inquiry in the Codex is built to exactly that specification, and none of them is built to be more.
A sequence of prompts
Most diagnostics in the Codex run to six calibration prompts. You mark how true each one reads, from disagree to agree. The broader inquiry into your five standing dispositions runs longer. No account is required to begin, nor to see your archetype and your complete vector alignment.
The prompts concern ordinary territory: how you cross the threshold into work, how you forge a decision, how you decode an unfamiliar craft, how you hold your focus, and how you conduct yourself among other people. If a prompt does not fit, the center of the scale is a genuine answer.
An archetype you can name
What the page returns is a vector given a name—The Candid Challenger, say, or The Monastic Deep-Diver. It is a reading of this sitting. It is not a four-letter type, and it is not a cage you are expected to live inside.
The point is recognition. You already begin your drafts a particular way. The inquiry gives that way a name and shows you precisely what else scored.
Where it stops
A reading is not a diagnosis, a hiring screen, or a measure of your worth. Two published instruments on this site are scored strictly to their authors’ specifications: the PHQ-9 and the GAD-7, both in the public domain. Neither one is a diagnosis.
The inquiries into autism traits, ADHD patterns, bipolar patterns, borderline traits, trauma and stress, and narcissism traits are original reflections written for this site. They are not those copyrighted clinical questionnaires. They cannot detect, screen for, or rule out any condition. If a score worries you, talk with a clinician. If you might act on thoughts of suicide, or you are in immediate danger, call or text 988 in the US, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 in Australia, or find a helpline for your country at findahelpline.com.