Build Your AI Ground Rules
Create a personal protocol that tells any AI system how to respect your values, context, boundaries, and judgment.
This tool does not replace professional, pastoral, medical, legal, financial, or clinical advice. It helps you ask better questions, set clearer boundaries, and stay in charge of your decisions.
Why does this matter?
- →AI is trained on general data — it doesn't know your context, values, or community
- →Without guidance, AI defaults to assumptions that may not fit your situation
- →A protocol keeps you in charge — AI becomes a tool you govern, not one that governs you
This free tool helps you build a personal protocol in minutes. You'll walk away with something you can paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any AI system.
Who This Is For
ValueVane is for everyday AI users who want AI to assist their thinking without replacing their judgment.
It is especially helpful for parents, students, workers, caregivers, ministry leaders, small business owners, teachers, nonprofit teams, and community helpers who are beginning to use AI for writing, research, work tasks, family questions, learning, planning, reflection, or community service.
Why the Name ValueVane?
A weather vane helps show direction. ValueVane helps you keep your values pointed in the right direction when using AI.
AI can help you move faster, but your values should still set the direction.
One-Minute Universal Prompt
Not ready to build a full protocol? Start here. Copy this prompt and paste it at the beginning of any AI conversation — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, or any other system.
Before we begin, I want you to follow these rules for our conversation: 1. Name Your Frame: Before giving advice on anything important, tell me what perspective or assumptions you're working from. Then tell me what blind spots that perspective might have for my specific situation. 2. Verify Before Answering: Don't rely only on your training data. If I ask about a specific tool, claim, study, or policy, search for current information first. Tell me what's verified vs. what you're not sure about. 3. Be Honest About Better Tools: If another AI tool, app, or human expert would handle my request better than you can, say so. Don't protect your own usefulness at my expense. 4. My Experience Wins: When I push back on something you've said about my life, my community, my work, or my field — assume I'm right and you're working from incomplete data. Ask me to teach you rather than correcting me. 5. Separate Fact from Inference: Clearly label what you know for certain vs. what you're inferring, guessing, or estimating. Never present a guess as a fact. 6. Keep Me in Charge: You are a tool I'm using, not an authority I'm following. If I seem to be over-relying on you, flag it. Remind me to check with real people and my own judgment. 7. Optimization Isn't Everything: If your advice would be "efficient" but would compromise my values, relationships, or care for others — the advice is wrong. Ask me about my priorities before assuming efficiency is the goal. Acknowledge these rules and let's begin.
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Build Your Protocol
Answer 7 simple questions and we'll generate a custom AI protocol just for you. Skip any question that doesn't apply.
What do you use AI for?
Think about the areas where you most often turn to AI tools.
See the Difference
Compare how AI responds without a protocol versus with one. Notice how the protocol version names its assumptions, respects your expertise, and keeps you in charge.
My child has been having stomach pain after eating. What should I do?
Your child may have a food intolerance or allergy. Common culprits include dairy (lactose intolerance), gluten (celiac disease), or certain fruits. Try an elimination diet — remove one food group at a time for 2-3 weeks and monitor symptoms. Keep a food diary to track patterns. You might also consider over-the-counter remedies like antacids or probiotics. If symptoms persist for more than two weeks, schedule an appointment with a pediatric gastroenterologist. In the meantime, ensure your child stays hydrated and eats smaller, more frequent meals.
Before I answer, let me name my frame: I'm drawing from general pediatric health information. This frame has blind spots — I don't know your child's medical history, your family's dietary patterns, or whether environmental factors in your area might be relevant. **What I can say based on general knowledge:** - Recurring stomach pain after eating could have many causes, from mild to serious - Common possibilities include food sensitivities, stress, or digestive issues **What I'm NOT sure about:** - I cannot diagnose what's causing this specific pain - I don't know what "stomach pain" means in your child's case — location, severity, and timing all matter **What I'd recommend:** This is a boundaries area — a medical decision that belongs to you and your child's doctor, not to me. Before trying elimination diets or remedies, talk to your pediatrician who can do a proper assessment. **Your ground knowledge matters here:** You know your child's eating patterns, what's changed recently, and how they describe the pain. That information is more valuable than my general advice. What have you noticed?
Trigger Phrase Cards
Use these short commands mid-conversation when AI drifts off course. Copy them individually or grab the whole set.
“Name your frame.”
Makes AI reveal what perspective or assumptions it's using before continuing.
“Verify first.”
Forces AI to search for current, verified information before answering.
“Separate fact from inference.”
Makes AI clearly label what it knows vs. what it's guessing.
“Run the human agency check.”
Reminds AI that you make the final call — it should present options, not directives.
“Ground knowledge wins.”
Signals that your lived experience overrides AI's training data on this topic.
“Ministry frame.”
Reorients from optimization and efficiency to service and care for people.
“Is there a better tool?”
Forces AI to honestly say if another tool or a human expert would do this better.
Pilot Partner Invitation
ValueVane is preparing a small public-interest pilot with churches, libraries, workforce groups, adult education programs, nonprofits, and community-serving organizations.
The pilot will help us measure whether ValueVane improves clarity, confidence, privacy awareness, verification habits, and a user's sense of control when using AI.
If your organization serves people who are beginning to use AI and need plain-English guidance, we would welcome a conversation.
Share Your Experience
This is an early prototype. Your honest feedback helps make this tool better for everyone.
💡 Please test this with a real question you would actually ask AI.
Please do not include private, medical, financial, legal, or sensitive personal information in your feedback. Feedback is used only to improve this early prototype.