This is my personal guide for working inside an ICM (Interpretable Context Methodology) workspace—Jake’s Method turned into executable muscle memory. It is not a loose set of tips. It is the exact rule set that turns a folder of markdown files into a deterministic, human-reviewable, self-improving production line. Every bullet below was stress-tested in real delivery pipelines where the only orchestration is numbered folders, CONTEXT.md stage contracts, and the filesystem itself. Why This List Is Important Most AI workflows die in one of two ways: they collapse under context bloat or they hallucinate their way through invisible state. ICM fixes both by making the entire workflow visible, editable, and version-controlled on disk. This list enforces that fix at the behavioral level. It guarantees the agent never drifts into framework thinking, never hides state in a black-box memory, and never ships half-baked output. Follow it and you get: - Predictable handoffs at every stage boundary - Human edits that become permanent factory improvements - Zero token waste from irrelevant subagents or monolithic prompts - Ruthless quality that compounds instead of eroding In short: this list turns Jake’s folder-as-architecture into actual shipped value instead of another pretty diagram.

After watching the video and reading the companion: Vote below, then tell us in the comments: what is one task in your work that feels robotic? If AI handled it tomorrow, what would you do with the time?