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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.
Tried to convince a business owner that folder structure is the whole game. New video.
New long video is up, and it's basically me trying to convince someone who's never heard of any of this that giving your AI a folder structure makes sense. The way in is a client story. A business owner running about thirty automations, almost all quietly broken the same way. One had been emailing a report to a dead inbox every day, for months. No error, no warning. The AI kept one copy of a fact in its memory, he kept another in his files, the two couldn't see each other, and they drifted until his setup was confidently doing last year's work. The fix is the rule this community already lives by: every fact lives in exactly one place, and everything else points at it. If it only points, there's nothing to drift. The part for this room is what I found when I checked how each tool actually assembles context from the folder. Both walk the same chain: a global file read first on every single run, and invisible from inside your project, then the project root, then the folder you're working in, closest file wins. But they fail in opposite directions. ChatGPT caps the whole chain at 32K and past that it silently drops the deepest files first, the exact ones that were supposed to win. Claude reads everything and just listens worse as it bloats. Different failure, same cure: every instruction file stays a thin router. https://youtu.be/df6JbGqquNU Curious how you all pitch this to people who haven't felt the pain yet. The story did more convincing than any diagram ever has for me.
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I almost never run out of tokens
Hi everyone, I have the Claude Pro subscription and I rarely run out of tokens. It feels like I’m doing not doing enough, but I do work the entire day (with some breaks inbetween). Here’s what I do: 1. Spend most of my time planning the workflow, creating the PRD and iterating over it by chatting with Claude (usually in layer 1, to not spend unnecessary tokens on Claude code). When I’m satisfied, I have it generate markdown files for Claude code. 2. In Claude code I let fable 5 read the markdown files. After that, it has a step by step plan for me on how to create my end product. I use plan mode to plan through each step and I account for verification steps on the way 3. When executing tasks, I use Sonnet 5. I use fable 5 to find gaps or possibilities for where it could go wrong and proposing solutions. I rarely use Opus anymore, it feels like I’m going in circles when I’m talking to Opus. 4. I spend most of my time trying to understand what Claude is telling me. I don’t want to be mindless about my project but it gets really exhausting to read and understand everything it’s doing (It already knows I don’t like technical jargon thanks to the personal assistant that I created🤣). 5. I keep asking for clarification. I spend most of my time learning while doing. I’m wondering how everyone else experiences it or has experienced it? I’m quite a noob when it comes to Claude code, but I know quite some things about AI fundamentals such as how context works and how it can waste tokens, as well as how different models work and where they shine (cost-benefit ratio). But I cannot shake the feeling that something must be wrong, because I keep hearing complaints online about people hitting their limits on Max subscriptions whereas I’m fine with Pro😅
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