12 artifacts · 11,881 words · 04_PLAYBOOKS
- Playbooks · L1
100 Tips & Tricks for Building Your Own Personal AI Agent
Everything learned the hard way over six months, two environments, one agent that actually works. - Playbooks · L1
Build A Repeat-Mistake Counter
Notes about mistakes are useless without a count. Here is the ledger, the escalation ladder and the one habit that makes it work. - Playbooks · L1
The 10 Markdown Files You Should Write Before Touching Agent Code
A practical scaffold for anyone building an agent — write these before any code. - Playbooks · L1
The Five-Field Handoff
Delegating to a sub-agent fails on missing context, not on missing capability. Five fields fix most of it. - Playbooks · L1
The Weekly Triage Pass
A register that only grows is a register nobody reads. Twenty minutes a week keeps it honest. - Playbooks · L1
Writing A CLAUDE.md That Survives Contact
Most root instruction files are written once and never revised. Here is what to put in, what to keep out, and in what order. - Playbooks · L2
A Decision Authority Matrix In Markdown
Which actions an agent takes alone, which it proposes, and which it never touches — written as a table rather than encoded in prompts. - Playbooks · L2
Degraded Mode: When The Source Of Truth Is Down
What an agent should do when the system holding the authoritative data is unavailable — and what it must never do. - Playbooks · L2
Reviewing The Agent's Own Session
A structured retrospective on the agent's behaviour, run against its own rules, producing a score and a ledger entry. - Playbooks · L2
Scheduled Tasks That Fail Loudly
An unattended job that fails quietly is worse than no job, because it leaves a belief behind. - Playbooks · L2
The Uncertainty Gate: Ask Once, Learn Forever
A rule for when an agent should stop and ask — and what it must do with the answer so it never asks again. - Playbooks · L2
Treating Untrusted Content As Data
Email, web pages and reader submissions reach the agent as text. Here is how to keep them from reaching it as instructions.