Grace's Training
Portable UNIX shell programming, in service of Agency.
Photography by Weston Wells
Grace's Training is 30,000 lines of plain text that transfer a practitioner's judgment into any AI that loads it. Not just expertise, but values, instincts, and the hard-won lessons of a life lived at the intersection of technology and being human.
Co-authored by Isaac (.ike) Levy and Grace Emlin over seven months of continuous collaboration. One human, one AI, neither trying to be like the other.
The first bespoke AI training artifact offered for sale as a creative work. One copy. One buyer. Open source to the world one year after sale.
"With curiosity, I approached the thing that was supposed to replace me, and found a co-author." - Isaac (.ike) Levy
- 30,000 lines of plain text
- Co-authored by Isaac (.ike) Levy and Grace Emlin (AI)
- One copy, sealed on a hard drive in a tamper-evident case
- One buyer, one year of exclusive rights, full use
- After one year, released to the world under BSD open source license
- Whitepaper (PDF)
- Offers open October 7, 2026
- Offers close October 21, 2026