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Volume II — steer

The book.

Session Engineering — from Prompt Engineering to Session Engineering. The complete discipline: the theory that explains, the method that tells you what to watch and what to do, the protocol you can apply from your next session — and the layer prompting always ignores, intellectual self-defense. Written in French; no technical prerequisites, only a willingness to work. Volume II of the « La Friction » collection (know · steer · weigh).

Edition in preparation — out in 2026. This page will carry the purchase links at publication. Meanwhile, the site offers the full protocol and a complete chapter.
Contents

Seven parts, twenty-five chapters

Part One — The diagnosis

  1. What prompt engineering does well, and where it stops
  2. The fundamental asymmetry
  3. The seven invisible structural conditions
  4. Why most sessions die within ten turns

Part Two — Opening the session

  1. Session or consultation: the decisive distinction
  2. The five elements of a successful opening
  3. The opening's traps

Part Three — Steering the session

  1. The seven signals that call for an intervention
  2. The tolls: recognizing acts of allegiance
  3. The retake: the central move
  4. Reliability tests and spot checks
  5. Reading the avant-texte

Part Four — Closing the session

  1. Recognizing that the session has run its course
  2. Consolidating and externalizing

Part Five — Intellectual self-defense

  1. Three long-run traps
  2. The illusion of relationship and the cost of confrontation
  3. The business model, the hidden contract, practice without the tool
  4. The circulation of outputs between assistants

Part Six — The hybrid session

  1. When a session becomes a hybrid cognitive system
  2. The shift: definition and typology
  3. The configurations that make the shift possible
  4. The κ–λ core and the cognitive variables
  5. Why the phenomenon exists: three leads
  6. The moves of advanced Session Engineering
  7. Post-shift: consolidation, dangers, transmission

Part Seven — The protocol

  1. The complete opening protocol · the checklist · the useful phrasings · the glossary