I've been working on this and have something that somewhat works, but I keep running into pieces that get messy and don't hold up well in practice. My current approach: the image I've attached lives in my AGENTS.md at the root of the project, so any time I build, the AI has the structure to reference. What I'm really after is the best way to implement the ICM system so that anything I build, Claude/AI already knows the way to build and stays inside that structure. Is anyone else doing this? Would love to hear how you've set it up.

Sharing my agents.md folder structure with you all, broken into two images. I'm about two months into this, so I'm still learning. Curious if this looks bloated, if there's a cleaner way to set it up, or if anything here could be improved. Would love to hear what the community thinks.

How are you all handling agent(folder) memory and daily continuity in your ICM setups? I know 'the system is the memory,' but if I'm working on a single workflow over multiple days, where are you storing the agent's learned context so it doesn't lose the thread—without accidentally bloating the active load path? Do you have in the instructions to update the context file when done running your process?

This post is not for the ICM pro, there will be no talk of gates, scripts, or orchestration! This is for the person just starting out! @Karli Rosario Yes, I mean you! (And anyone else who may just be starting out with ICM) Seriously, I'm glad you found ICM. Let me give you the simplest version of it I know. ICM is a system of structured folders. Yes, the same folders you have been using on a computer for most of your life. The ones you stored photos in, & pirated music from Napster and LimeWire. That's it. I will take you through the process below. When working with AI, a lot of people are doing this 👇 You take a long prompt, feed the entire thing to AI at the beginning of your interaction, and spend time going back and forth with AI trying to get the outcome you want. (I'm not coming for you Karli, you are exceptionally good at this, but ICM will make your outcomes exceptionally better!) What is different about AI and prompting with ICM 👇 You take that same really long prompt and instead of giving it to the AI all at once in the beginning, you break it into steps, and each step gets its own folder, each folder gets its own piece of your large prompt, just 1 step from it, and you ordered the folders by when the steps happen in the workflow. You got it? Good 😊 ❤️‍🔥 -------------------Still a bit unclear, let's bake a cake. 💡 Here's an analogy I have success with (I picked this up way back in my VB programming days): Imagine teaching AI to bake a birthday cake. 🎂 The way most people do it: 👇 One giant prompt. "Bake a cake, here's the recipe, the frosting technique, the decorating style, the candle placement..." Then they hit enter and wait. The AI is juggling 40 instructions at once, and by step 30 it's forgotten step 3. The ICM way: 👇 Break the prompt/workflow into steps. Each step gets a folder. The first folder is your first step. Then you point the AI at the first step, and the first step is 00-birthday-cake: (Point the AI just means giving access to the folders to the AI, through uploading or direct local access, don't worry about that now, let's keep building our cake.)

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