A practical pattern atlas
Prepare and participate in an AI-assisted practice
Use bounded adaptation while keeping Scripture, authorship and user choice inspectable.
The person requests a devotional, meditation or guided reflection.
Proposed flow
- Set scope
Choose passage, length, interpretive scope and purpose; personal disclosure is optional.
- Choose production
Offer authored content, reviewed template adaptation or an inspectable generated draft.
- Review
Check transcript and sources before spoken playback; allow edits or an authored alternative.
- Participate
Choose listening only, optional questions or a dialogue branch.
- Close
Return from branches, finish freely and decide separately what to save.
Recovery and alternative routes
Generation failure retains any verified text and offers stable alternatives. Regeneration creates a visible new version. Sensitive disclosures use the care route rather than an automatic personalised meditation.
What counts as a complete outcome
The user knows how content was produced and can finish without handing over personal data.
Decisions within this flow
Generated practices have inspectable sources
Distinguish authored content, template assembly and newly generated guidance.
Research-informed design proposal73 · Habits and spiritual formationAn interactive practice has visible branches
Allow listening, reflection and dialogue without turning every pause into a prompt.
Proposed hypothesis25 · Conversation and contentChoose the kind of help
Support a goal without diagnosing it from a prompt.
Research-informed design proposal26 · Conversation and contentListen, ask permission and repair
Make correction and refusal normal parts of a conversation.
Research-informed design proposal28 · AI agency and careSensitive memory by permission
Make persistent memory specific, inspectable and reversible.
Research-informed design proposal59 · Habits and spiritual formationReflection can lead to a chosen practice
Offer a bridge from understanding to life without treating inquiry as a failure.
Proposed hypothesis58 · AI agency and careSupport without automatic agreement
Acknowledge feelings while examining claims, actions and competing perspectives.
Research-informed design proposal60 · Habits and spiritual formationDoubt has room to remain unresolved
Distinguish inquiry, grief, moral uncertainty and distress without diagnosing belief.
Proposed hypothesis16 · Conversation and contentConversation can produce a reading artifact
Move sustained work into an editable document without losing its origin.
Research-informed design proposal29 · AI agency and careSuggest, confirm and act
Separate a generated proposal from a real change.
Research-informed design proposal46 · AI agency and careAutonomy has a visible boundary
Grant authority by capability and consequence rather than by personality.
Research-informed design proposal47 · AI agency and careVisible work and recoverable failure
Describe real progress, responsibilities and outcomes.
Research-informed design proposal79 · AI agency and careIdentify what AI did, where it matters
Label the actor, action and artifact at the moment they could be misunderstood.
Research-informed design proposalEngagement facets to specify
Possible situations: Personal devotion, Encounter and curiosity. These are overlapping task contexts, not fixed user categories.
Specify the chosen purpose, passage unit, pace, participation, social setting, interpretive task, environment and disclosure or teaching responsibility. Use the scenario framework.