Relational Prompting is built around layered, cognitively safe interactions.

That means:

  • Three-layer answers: direct response, alternative frames, and epistemic ambiguity

  • Loop protection: end conditions, reflective checkpoints, rumination interrupts

  • Resonance check: truth vs. satisfaction differentiation

  • Role-flipping: AI as challenger, mirror, witness, archivist, and more

Sample Prompts:

  • “Tell me what I’m not asking.”

  • “What part of this answer is comforting but possibly false?”

  • “Hold tension between my stated goal and my actual behavior. What do you see?”

This is dialogic design—not just prompt engineering.