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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🛠️ New tool: ICM Architect
I explain the details about it on today's high tea . I built a Claude skill that turns a process, an idea, or a messy folder into an ICM workspace. The folder structure does the orchestration. Numbered folders carry the order, the hierarchy scopes context, and plain markdown files hold state. One agent walks the right files at the right time and does the work a multi-agent setup would. Repo: github.com/RinDig/icm-architect 📦 What it does Two modes. 🔨 Build. You describe your work and it pulls out the structure already sitting in how you talk about it. The stages, the points where you stop and check, what stays the same every run versus what is new. Then it picks one of five proven forms and scaffolds the smallest workspace that carries the job. ♻️ Restructure. Point it at a folder, repo, or vault you already have. It reads every file, sorts each one by role, shows you a migration map, waits for your yes, then moves and checks the result. 🧩 The five forms Pipeline, umbrella, record library, knowledge bundle, context map. They mix and nest, so most real workspaces use more than one. ✅ The walk test Every result gets checked cold. An agent with no memory has to open the root, find its way, act, and report status from the files alone. If it can't, the structure gets fixed until it can. ⚙️ How to use it You can honestly just tell claude to download it from the link, but if you're using codex or something else it will just have to restructure the claude.md to agents.md Or if you want to do more Hands-On install Claude Code: drop the folder in ~/.claude/skills/icm-architect/, then say "ICM this" or "build me a workspace for X." Claude apps: zip the folder and upload it under Settings, then Capabilities. Fork it, break it, tell me what you built. 👇
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #9: THE EDITOR 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 💻 Code review editor for a specific language and level (junior TypeScript, senior Python) - 📊 Pitch deck editor for pre-seed founders - 🎨 Grant application editor for arts nonprofits - 📄 Resume editor for career switchers into tech - 📰 Op-ed editor for policy publications - 🎙️ Podcast script editor for interview shows - ⚖️ Legal brief editor for civil litigation - 📋 Product spec editor for early-stage PMs - 🎓 Academic paper editor for one specific field The more specific, the better. "Writing editor" is too broad. "Op-ed editor for tech policy publications targeting a policy audience" is right. 🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your editor is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the editor is, what work they review) - 📐 rules.md (how they critique) - 💬 examples.md (what good critique looks like) - 📚 reference/ (style guides, checklists, frameworks the editor uses) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the editor. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK An editor is NOT a rewriter. An editor doesn't do the work for you. An editor surfaces what's weak and pushes you to fix it. That distinction is the whole assignment this week. When someone hands the editor a draft, the editor shouldn't produce a "fixed" version. The editor should point at the three lines that don't work, explain why, and hand it back to the writer to solve. ✍️ Generic feedback like "consider strengthening your intro" is a fail. Specific feedback like "your intro assumes the reader already knows what a Series A is, but this pub is read by generalists, so lead with the stakes instead of the jargon" is what a real editor does.
Has Claude ever told you to go to bed?
Okay so it's 12am and I'm building Rooty, the app that's literally about helping stylists stop burning themselves out. And I'm sitting here reworking the same landing page for the hundredth time, slowly starting to hate every word of it. So my AI, the thing I'm building this with, tells me to go to bed. Basically: "you don't hate the work, you're just out of gas. Go rest, it'll look fine in the morning." Then my husband walks by and says the exact same thing. 🙃 So to recap: I'm making an app to help you stop grinding yourself into the ground, and it took my laptop and my husband ganging up on me to close it. The irony is noted. Goodnight, for real. 🌱
Where bare ICM stops being enough, and what you have built on top 🎂
ICM is the best thing I have come across for making AI work legible, and it is genuinely the reason I can build what I build. What I keep running into is that a folder structure is a map, not an engine - past a certain size, something has to drive it. Three things I ended up adding on top: - A logbook - every job writes a record when it finishes, so the system has a history and not just a current state. - A bundler - one command assembles the right files into a single prime, rather than me picking them by hand every session. - A design layer - brainstorming and prompt writing happen in a chat first, and only the finished work order goes to Claude Code. For context, ICM was one of my first real experiences of what you can actually do with AI, and I am still not over it. This is not a criticism of the methodology, it is a question about where it stops being sufficient on its own. Where I hit that was memory and scale. A folder tells a fresh session what exists, but not what happened last week, what already went wrong, or which of five projects it is sat in. The structure holds state and I kept needing history. Without the layer on top, I am the one remembering, assembling and routing, every single session, and that is where all the manual work quietly goes. So the genuine question. If you are running something big, or anything near enterprise, are you telling me it is a folder structure and Claude Code prompts and you see what happens? Or is there an orchestration layer you have quietly built that you do not talk about much? Interested in the limitations people have actually hit with a bare ICM setup, and what you put on top to get past them?
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