I built an AI to watch a bird. She left.
I built an AI to watch a Common Redstart nesting in my garden. Two weeks later she left the box and never came back. The AI didn't notice — and that was the lesson.
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Paper rules break first
Two months of running the agent-team starter prompt taught me which rules actually hold. The ones wired into tooling survived. The ones that only lived in prose were the first to e...
A starter prompt that actually remembers what you told it
I rebuilt my Claude Code starter prompt around .md files as external memory. Here's why and how.
Context hygiene: why your AI forgets what matters and what to do about it
The biggest bottleneck in long-running AI sessions isn't model intelligence — it's context management. Here's what I've learned about keeping AI on track across complex, multi-sess...
Starter prompt v2 for Claude Code agent teams, refined
Updated version of my Claude Code agent-teams starter prompt(/downloads/STARTPROMPT-AGENT-TEAMS-v2.md) after two months of running the previous cut on real p...
A starter prompt for Claude Code agent teams
I rebuilt my Claude Code starter prompt(/downloads/STARTPROMPT.md) for agent teams. The original positions Claude as a single project lead that both coordina...
My Claude Code starter prompt with built-in context management
I published my Claude Code starter prompt as a downloadable file: STARTPROMPT.md(/downloads/STARTPROMPT.md) It sets Claude up as technical lead for any proj...