Seeing Free

Learn to See

Before you can build well, you must perceive well.

Seeing teaches the Subtractive Triad — three questions that reveal duplication, excess, and disconnection in any codebase. Free. In your terminal.

Install for Gemini CLI Learn the Journey

The Journey: Seeing → Dwelling

CREATE SOMETHING education has two tiers. Master perception first, then tools recede into transparent use.

Seeing

You are here
Free

Vorhandenheit — Present-at-hand. You notice the tools, study the patterns, learn to perceive.

  • Philosophy lessons
  • Triad commands (/dry, /rams, /heidegger)
  • Self-assessed reflections
  • Progress tracking
  • Gemini CLI (1,000 free/day)
Gemini CLI
Graduate

Dwelling

Mastery
Pro

Zuhandenheit — Ready-to-hand. Tools recede into transparent use. You don't notice the infrastructure—only the work.

  • Everything in Seeing, plus:
  • Automated praxis with code audits
  • Personal ethos layer
  • Full MCP skills & tools
  • Harness/Ralph/Gastown patterns
Claude Code

The Subtractive Triad

Three questions, asked in order, that reveal what obscures your code.

Level 1

DRY

"Have I built this before?"

Action: Unify

Find duplication. Same concept, multiple expressions. Unify to reveal the underlying abstraction.

Level 2

Rams

"Does this earn its existence?"

Action: Remove

Weniger, aber besser. Less, but better. Every feature must justify its place or be removed.

Level 3

Heidegger

"Does this serve the whole?"

Action: Reconnect

The hermeneutic circle. Parts serve the whole, the whole gives meaning to parts. Reconnect what fragments.

Seeing Curriculum

Seven lessons that build toward automation infrastructure. Philosophy first, then patterns, then practice.

01

Setting Up

Install Gemini CLI and the Seeing extension. Five minutes to your first practice.

5 min
02

What Is Creation?

The meta-principle: creation as the discipline of removing what obscures.

10 min
03

The Automation Layer

What sits between intention and execution. The infrastructure you're learning to build.

15 min
04

The Subtractive Triad

Three questions that guide every decision: DRY, Rams, Heidegger.

20 min
05

External Memory

How automation systems remember. Persistence patterns for agents.

15 min
06

Agent-Native Tools

Designing tools for AI agents, not humans. Different inputs, different outputs.

15 min
07

Capstone: Simple Loom

Build a Task Tracker MCP server. Apply everything you've learned.

60 min

Cost Transparency

Seeing is free. Dwelling requires a Claude subscription.

Seeing

$0 /month
  • Gemini CLI free tier
  • 1,000 requests/day
  • Google account only
  • No credit card required

Sufficient for all philosophy lessons and practice

Dwelling

~$100 /month
  • Claude Max subscription
  • Higher usage limits for Claude Code
  • Full MCP tool access
  • Automated praxis & audits

Recommended for production-grade execution

Start free. Graduate when you're ready. The philosophy costs nothing to learn.

Start Seeing

Install the Gemini CLI extension and begin your journey.

1

Install Gemini CLI

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli
2

Add Seeing Extension

gemini extensions install @createsomething/seeing
3

Begin Learning

/lesson what-is-creation

Or install via npm:

npx @createsomething/seeing init

When to Graduate

You're ready for Dwelling when the questions become automatic.

Ask the three questions without prompting
Identify duplication before building
Question whether features earn existence
Map how changes serve the whole
"You've learned to see. Now learn to dwell."

When ready, run /graduate in Gemini CLI, then:

npx @createsomething/learn init