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Pressure-testing an ICM-adjacent idea before building
QUESTION FOR BUILDERS: Where does your workflow context live today, and what breaks first when you try to reuse it or hand it to someone else? I am especially interested in cases where the workflow works for you personally, but would be fragile for a team. PROBLEM: Folder-based AI workflows work well when one person understands the context. They run into challenges when you add collaborators and when the context becomes stale, scattered, unowned, or difficult to hand off. SOLUTION: My idea is to use Airtable as an ICM context registry that helps AI & automation workflows access context that's approved, current, and usable, without copying every source doc into Airtable. Canonical files stay in source systems / formats, i.e. markdown folders, Git repos, Google Docs, Drive, CRMs. Airtable tracks the operational layer around them: - pointer to the canonical source - owner - freshness or expiry status - approved context packs - review or readiness gates - workflow run evidence - source improvement requests when something is stale, missing, or conflicting - Airtable AI automation steps and field agents help classify, summarize, route, or draft context updates (review-gated) BENEFITS: - Teams can see which context is safe to use without digging through every folder or doc. - Source files stay canonical, so Airtable does not become a duplicate source of truth. - Context gets an owner and review cadence instead of quietly going stale. - Workflows can be blocked or flagged when required context is expired, missing, or conflicting (enforce at code / automation level). - Run logs create evidence of what context was used for a workflow output. - Source improvement requests create a feedback loop: when the workflow breaks, the source can improve instead of only patching the output. - Non-technical collaborators can participate through Airtable interfaces without needing to understand the whole file structure. WHY AIRTABLE? I'm a certified Airtable builder, so it's a natural choice for me. It's a strong place to track ownership, freshness, approval status, workflow usage, and follow-up requests. Airtable can provide:
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Pressure-testing an ICM-adjacent idea before building
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Spent the whole day trying to get telegram live it will send approval but won’t receive my messages poller will stop listening tried so many different solutions I was given now I’m just disabling and taking it online that why it’s always listening so I can communicate with my factory via telegram pretty irritated tbh I mean that’s the only shit thing about vibe coding is not have the true knowledge that gives you an extra advantage when it come to building architecture…. On that note does anyone have any books for me to read that I can go study for software engineering and architecture builds that they recommend
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Are you using OpenClaw with telegram? I had to give up on using that with telegram. I was going in circles trying to make it work.
Aurora works!!!!!!
This is wild! I just started on the Aurora project today and it already works! That is all in the last 5 hours! Adding ElevenLabs to this has been a GAME CHANGER!!!! I am so pumped! Still got user interface to work on and login, and security, and all that. But this is KILLER!
Aurora works!!!!!!
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@Jacob McCoy I'm now curious to have my own voice briefing with eleven labs. Could you maybe share more context on your Aurora project or where I can go to read about it?
Scripts. Turbocharge your workflow, its easier than you think.
Discover the power of scripts. Add in a review process to the end of every session that identifies repeated processes and ask Claude to turn it into a script. A very simple process that gives enormous leverage on your time and credits.
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Do you have a review process that you could share?
Plumbline - My Code building process through files and folders.
I built a coding workflow called Plumbline (https://github.com/BytesFromToby/plumbline) — five AI-agent "skills" that take a feature from idea to verified code. The names lean on a home-building metaphor on purpose: an architect defines what to build, a foreman plans how, a builder writes the code, an inspector signs off. A plumb line is the weighted string a builder hangs to find true vertical — the one reference everything else is checked against. In my workflow, the spec is that line. One way to wire this is a chain: architect calls foreman, foreman calls builder. I deliberately didn't. The agents never call each other. They coordinate entirely through files and folders — and that one choice turned out to be the most important in the whole thing. Chaining them causes two problems: tight coupling, where a failure halfway means restarting the whole pipeline; and — worse with LLMs — a telephone game, where each agent paraphrases the last one's output until the builder is working from a summary of a summary of what I actually asked for. # The fix: the filesystem is the interface Every stage reads and writes plain files in a known layout: Planning/specs/[feature]_spec.md ← architect writes this; it's the source of truth Planning/blueprints/[feature]_BP.md ← foreman writes the build plan output/inspect/ ← inspector drops evidence + a PASS/FAIL stamp A stage's input is whichever files already exist; its output is whatever it writes. No call graph. The builder runs after the blueprint exists — sequenced by data dependency, not because the foreman told it to. A single CLAUDE.md in each project declares the shared contract (test command, where specs live, the rules for a change) — the schema that lets independently-run agents agree on where everything is without ever talking. # Why it's better than I expected Every stage runs standalone — the pipeline is a suggestion, not a cage. Intent stops drifting: every stage reads the original spec, not a retelling of it, so the builder checks against what I actually asked for and stops if the plan contradicts it. Independence becomes structural: my inspector only reads the finished files and never saw the build, so its neutrality is enforced by isolation, not good intentions. And everything is inspectable — when something breaks I read the files, not a black-box conversation.
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Toby, thank you for sharing! My comment is more semantics and me trying to nail jello to the wall. I keep thinking about the boundary between single and multi-agent systems. The ICM paper says the method allows a single agent to accomplish what would otherwise require a multi agent framework. When you run your system, I assume in Claude code, would you say it as one agent or multiple and why? Your description sounds like multiple agents at least from a user point of view, although I imagine the whole thing is coordinated by you in a single chat thread and a single Claude model.
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@Toby Iverson sounds like you’re building a foundational workflow that will help you with all other building going forward!
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Martin McCoy
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