Week of 8 Dec 2025¶

Dates are approximate.

What happened¶

The discussion introduces a new contributor, [name withheld], who will work on uncovering the Dhamma meaning in musical tracks for the Inner Realm project. The team reviews progress with [name withheld] on video animation blending and frame-to-frame prompt generation using vision and LLM models. [name withheld] discusses progress on the Cittakara project, which models cittas and cetasikas, and addresses difficulties with OCR on a 900-page Dhamma book by Maggavihari Thero. [name withheld] also shares the status of the front-end visualisation and discusses issues with Cursor token limits and Playwright MCP bugs alongside [name withheld]'s payment inquiries. The lead speaker recommends moving towards direct API usage (e.g., Claude Code, Qwen, or DeepSeek) within a monthly budget of around $40 instead of hitting IDE subscription limits. Finally, [name withheld] is assigned to extract Dhamma meanings and musical patterns across approximately 220–230 tracks using fine-tuned system prompts in Claude, and [names withheld] are asked to teach [name withheld] basic Git workflow.

Key points¶

Said to exist · [name withheld] implemented navigation linking the 89 cittas back to the Citta-Cetasika table on the site.
Planned · [name withheld] will contact [name withheld] to ask Venerable Maggavihari Thero for the original digital text of his 900-page book.
Planned · [name withheld] will generate English and Sinhala Dhamma analyses and musical descriptions for approximately 220 to 230 songs using Claude prompts.
Planned · [name withheld] or [name withheld] will schedule a screen-sharing session to teach [name withheld] basic Git and repository commit workflows.

Ideas and open questions¶

Decided · Sinhala Unicode text extraction from the PDF fails across multiple OCR solutions and vision models.
Decided · A bug in Playwright MCP currently disrupts the ability to read browser or Drive content via Cursor.
Decided · Cursor locked access to premium models despite a recent payment, claiming token limits were exceeded until the cycle resets on the 22nd.
Idea · Set up a centralized API token pool with a $40 monthly budget and shift to tools like Claude Code, DeepSeek, or Qwen models rather than paying for Cursor seats.

All details (6 topics, 4 more points)

Onboarding of [name withheld] and Team Roles: Speaker 1 introduces [name withheld] to the team, explaining his role in extracting Dhamma meanings from songs. He outlines the responsibilities of [name withheld] (visualisation/AI), [name withheld] (Cittakara / Abhidhamma visualisations), and [name withheld] (system engineering / Inner Realm).
Animation Blending and Video Generation Workflow: [name withheld] and Speaker 1 discuss video transitions and frame blending using tools like Veo. They discuss structuring multi-dimensional prompts (frame transitions, headers, color variations) and using advanced models like Claude Opus 4.5 or MCP tools.
Abhidhamma Data Ingestion and OCR Challenges: [name withheld] reports on converting a Dhamma book authored by Maggavihari Thero into text for the Cittakara project. Due to poor OCR results with Unicode and vision models on 900 pages, they plan to ask [name withheld] to obtain the original digital copy from the author monk.
Cittakara Interactive Visualisation and Cursor/API Pricing: [name withheld] presents updates on the 89 cittas visualisation. They discuss showing cause-and-effect (paccaya) relationships and cetasikas interactively, followed by troubleshooting Cursor token limits, Playwright MCP issues, and alternative API budgets ($40/month via DeepSeek, Qwen, or Claude Code).
LLM Prompting Strategy and Abhidhamma Specificity: Speaker 1 explains that prompting an LLM on Abhidhamma requires domain-specific terminology and precise conceptual framing to avoid hallucinations and maintain high output accuracy.
Inner Realm Track Analysis and Git Workflow for [name withheld]: Speaker 1 assigns [name withheld] to process roughly 220-230 songs, generating both Dhamma meaning interpretations and musicological pattern descriptions using system prompts in Claude. [name withheld] will receive Git training from [name withheld] or [name withheld] to commit his work to the repository.
Idea · Prompts for video animation transitions should define multiple dimensions including start-to-end frame transition, header shifts, and color variation mappings.
Idea · Claude Opus 4.5 is recommended for writing consistent model prompts.
Idea · The visualisation should dynamically highlight causal antecedent factors and subsequent resultant cittas when a user selects a specific mind state.
Idea · Qwen 4.2 is noted as a strong model alternative.