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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). 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, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3 WINNER ....
Before I get to the who and why, I want to say this plainly. Picking a winner this round was genuinely hard. I went through every submission. Pulled repos. Read identity files. Compared rules.md sections. Every entry did real work. A lot of you shipped something I would happily use, sell, or hand a client tomorrow. I can NOT explain to you how proud I am of everyone participating in these, you make this community worth and it and there is SO much potential for the future from just ONE competition let alone future ones. 💼 That part matters more than the prize. The $325 covers a year of Premium and that's great but... The portfolio piece is the real value here. A public repo of a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and receipts is a resume line that hiring managers can clone and test cold in five minutes. It is also something you can charge for. If you built a specialist that solves a real problem in a real domain, you already have most of what you need to license it to a peer in your industry, sell it as a service, or package it as a Done-with-You engagement. A few quick notes on that, because most of you did not realize what you actually built and I want to Highlight a few of you: 💸 @Nicolas Patron Uriburu USD Routing Coach AR could be sold to every Argentine indie consultor I know. Same playbook works for any country with FX restrictions. Subscription service, recalibrated annually, audit-pack included. It is a product. 🔗 https://github.com/Nicopatron/usd-routing-coach-ar 🔧 @Jannetje van Leeuwen RAMS specialist is a service business in waiting. Irish signage contractors will pay for this. Same model works for any trade with a regulatory documentation burden. Plumbing, electrical, fit-out, demolition. Each one needs its own folder. 🔗 https://github.com/JannetjeIQ/rams-irish-signage-installer
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I come asking for help! (NEW ROUND! VOTE ONCE A DAY PLS)
Because of the Amazing support you all gave for the first Round Wylder (my step daughter) made it into the second round! You can vote once a day and some days are 2x votes ! I would love love love if any of you support her going to work with some of the best animal rescues in the world to just cast at least one free vote if you can! You can vote here! Not Ai related so sorry for that ! Wylder | Junior Ranger
Class, meet Brofessor.
TL;DR /brofessor is ICM-based skill that helps clean up AI-agent workspaces. It's also a small persona factory: the audit engine stays the same, but you can switch and create personas, and even tune them with a CONFIG.md It checks whether your docs, routing, stages, review gates, and context-loading patterns make sense. It finds bloat, confusion, contradiction, and overbuilt process junk. Then it proposes the smallest safe fix, waits for approval, executes only what you approve, and wraps up with a clear synthesis. It is half workspace auditor, half context janitor, half theatrical menace. Yes, that is three halves. The math is fine. Keep moving. Grab it, run it on a messy workspace, and let it bully your docs into behaving. - Brofessor iight now that that's out of the way, I'm going to explain why this shit actually bangs - actually fuck it imma let him explain this too. ps - this skill was made in 3 prompts, I can show you how I did it if anyone's curious... - yuckyyy Yep — replace the longer **“How It Works”** section with this: ```md ## How It Works Brofessor works because the prompt is built like a layered workspace auditor, not a generic “clean up my docs” request. ### 1. Core Directive: Treat the Workspace Like a Factory The prompt frames the repo as a multi-stage context system: - each stage has inputs - each stage produces outputs - each stage loads only what it needs - stable rules live outside active work - review gates control movement between stages So Brofessor is not asking, “Are these files tidy?” It is asking, “Can agents move through this workspace predictably?” ### 2. Layer Model: Give Every File a Job Brofessor audits through five layers: - **Layer 0:** workspace identity - **Layer 1:** map/orientation - **Layer 2:** routing/context loading - **Layer 3:** stable rules, contracts, criteria - **Layer 4:** active products and outputs This prevents the classic markdown soup problem where `CLAUDE.md`, `CONTEXT.md`, plans, rules, drafts, and review notes all start pretending to be the boss.
Class, meet Brofessor.
The Asgardian Council
🔥 16 saves. 1 day. 3 AI voices cooking together. I'm a retired NYPD detective. Zero coding background. Yesterday I caught something nasty in my empire: one of my businesses had been silently bleeding revenue for 11 days. Pipeline running, files getting written, but the daily summary email to my partner — gone. Dark. Eleven days. I didn't catch it. My Council did. What's the Council? Three AI voices I run in parallel using Jake's file method: ⚔️ Odin — the architect. Strategy, debate, big decisions. 🗡️ Tyr — the surgeon. Line-by-line, finds bugs others miss. 🛡️ Heimdall — the watchman. Cross-tree audits, sees what's drifting. They don't agree. That's the whole point. Yesterday Heimdall flagged something off in a system I thought was healthy. Tyr cut it down to the exact file. Odin built the recovery plan. I executed in shell. Total time from "wait, what's wrong" to "fixed and verified": 4 hours. Without them? I'd have found out when my partner asked "where's my email" and I'd have spent a week figuring out why. The wild part — none of this is some custom agentic framework. No fancy orchestration layer. It's just folders and SKILL.md files. Jake's method. A folder. A markdown file telling each voice what to do. They read the same file. They argue. They ship. By the end of the session: 16 distinct catches the Council made that I would've missed alone. One catch alone saved me from losing thousands of dollars of leads and a partner relationship. Right now as I type this, the same 3 voices are autonomously building a new state scraper for me — folder method, SKILL.md driving, Codex cooking overnight. I'm going to wake up to a finished Phase 1 report. I built none of this with code I wrote. I orchestrated it with files. If a cop with no tech background can run 3 AI models like a symphony using nothing but folders and markdown — what's your excuse? Jake's method works. Receipts above. 🥷 七転び八起き
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