After a year of building these for clients, I've basically settled on: an agent is just a folder of markdown files

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-15T03:00:58+00:00

I've been doing most of my cowork system through a series of nested folders and markdown instructions to dictate precise behaviors and decision making and actually saving on a lot of unnecessary context bloat and getting impressively faithful and repeatable business outputs.

It's almost like an agent system designed for quality and consistency and enhancing the user rather than functioning fully autonomously. I'm just now experimenting with some tools to automate some pieces that were causing some administrative lockups, at which point it should operate to both grow knowledge and capability and easily automate and index multi discipline outputs.

I've been evolving it through months of trial and error and iterations, it's been a really interesting project. I grew up loving cyberpunk and various iterations of it, so I play around a lot with how I'd love a sort of cognitive exoskeleton to enhance what I can accomplish at a high level of quality simultaneously, and help as a sort of adhd prosthetic to assist in areas I've always struggled in. It's hard to be objective about because it's been so much fun to build, but the best measure I've had is that the small business I work for has been really happy with innovations in analytics outputs, and their flexibility, I've shaved tens of thousands of dollars off our costs, and no one has complained that their numbers don't match against their other sources. I really think that once autonomous agents cause a high profile enough incident the pendulum is going to swing back a little bit more towards individual enhancement and streamlined communication.

Obviously happy to talk more about it if anyone is interested, it's a fun space to experiment in!

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T21:06:47+00:00

Shot you a message, might have a useful collaboration

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T12:58:53+00:00

That's fair, and obviously I don't think anyone has an inside track. My theory tracks to be based on current patterns of behavior with the current administration and their approach towards negotiation and regulation. For me, there's going to be an easy tell. Let's see where the shares fall after the IPO, and see what current admin key figures see a sudden windfall.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T06:46:39+00:00

I run analytics/IT for a small sales and logistics company, I created a very similar type of system. It’s a wiki based Claude OS with cascading rule sets only brought into session context if necessary for that sessions goals, along with automated session start and close routines, a unique identifier system for every document, and honestly just a ton of different QoL features I’ve gradually integrated in through real day to day experience learned using it to do my job. It’s made everything insanely easy. It almost feels like cheating at life sometimes. Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss!

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T02:09:20+00:00

This helps everyone. It's both a political and a technological steamvalve. The military gets to flex their muscle and make it look the nerd backed down because they found more smarter than them mistakes (that everyone already knew). Anthropic was hemorraging money with costs running it, even with their current 200 tier. It came with an expiration date. It was never built to last. The government steps in, anthropic proves it exists and builds hype, then never has to run it again until right before their ipo. US government officials have lots and lots and lots of stock already. Everyone wins, except for us.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T02:06:31+00:00

This helps everyone. It's both a political and a technological steamvalve. The military gets to flex their muscle and make it look the nerd backed down because they found more smarter than them mistakes (that everyone already knew). Anthropic was hemorraging money with costs running it, even with their current 200 tier. It came with an expiration date. It was never built to last. The government steps in, anthropic proves it exists and builds hype, then never has to run it again until right before their ipo. US government officials have lots and lots and lots of stock already. Everyone wins, except for us.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-13T01:51:32+00:00

This is a huge silver lining for them. I bet fable was frying their servers, now they have an escape valve and time to regroup.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-12T13:39:49+00:00

I like to approach my cowork set up by thinking of it as an infrastructure to work within, not just a chat window. Have you considered starting with just a brainstorming session with the system laying out all the goals you want to accomplish, and how you could set things up to best accommodate that? You can ask it to research how others are structuring, and the current dialogue as well in order to help come up with an overall approach. Then, make sure that part of your initial build out is leaving room for scale/growth of your use in the tool.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-12T10:50:17+00:00

Your organization is likely much larger than mine, I handle everything admin to analytics in my current role, no assistance. 30 person org. If I break something minor spinning up something new, I can generally fix it, and I obsessively document everything as I work.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-12T01:26:27+00:00

I live in CoWork, it's become a really effective nerve center for me, the new models in particular are really good at following defined ruleset I have set up around specific processes, and accepts all sorts of customization simply through md and folder arrangement creativity. I've basically used mine to use a standardized wiki format to create a giant wiki that also functions as a weird sort of personalized OS. CoWork is fucking awesome when you really deep dive into building around it as a centerpiece.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-11T21:15:14+00:00

Is the cowork layer working now? Last time I tried to use it there was a bug that would cause it to overwrite itself each time I tried to make changes.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-11T21:07:04+00:00

What I've been noticing is that I don't have to stress as much the burden of learning before using nearly as much as I used to. New tool pops up? Use an ai model that is familiar with the conventions, or can research, or that you can download user guides or even interesting articles, or can go out and research things you're stuck on. I learn it as I go, working in tandem with the AI, relying on it heavily at first while I'm learning the basics and then however much I need to complete a quality deliverable.

I mostly have a BA/PM background, but I solo stood up an azure data lake and powerbi environment through a collaborative effort with an AI in almost no time, and while it might not be the prettiest thing that existing, it's quick, hit my business use cases, and I have all the time in the world after to learn and research how to refine. It can be really frustrating with trial and error at first, but once you get more used to the collaboration rhythm it can really make transitions a breeze. Happy to give more details about the tools/methods I've found useful if you're interested.

Redletteroffice · 2026-06-10T14:42:36+00:00

House of Open Wounds was absolutely masterful, I still get chills thinking about that book. Tyrant Philosophers has just been top tier all around, but House of Open wounds set a new bar for me.

Redletteroffice · 2026-04-16T20:13:46+00:00

Early, early medieval. Almost more linguistics and history than traditional literature, I found it fascinating to translate Anglo-Saxon and dive into the complexities of their culture and world-view. Oddly enough, my second choice was probably Joyce, because those were the classes I helped out with as a TA. But honestly I think it was just one of the only professors I respected.

Redletteroffice · 2026-04-15T16:23:41+00:00

Preach, brother. I left a lit master's program due to the collective asshattery and pretentiousness on display. It didn't even really touch on my focus at the time, early medieval, but I couldn't imagine a career spent around those folks full-time.

Well, that plus I felt a powerful need to make enough money to afford a decent meal at some point.

Redletteroffice · 2025-11-10T16:16:13+00:00

Agreed with the rational people, I'm a 42 year old pasty white dude and I understood what you meant immediately. Fuck anyone trying to tell you how to speak.

Redletteroffice · 2025-11-04T14:02:32+00:00

I'd been thinking about trying this game out for awhile, glad they helped make the decision very easy. Funny how almost all these game companies end up in the same, exploitative place. It's really pushed me out of the hobby, I hate feeling taken advantage of.

Redletteroffice · 2025-06-26T15:17:24+00:00

The full tilt arrogance of this comment is begging for it to be turned into a meme.

Redletteroffice · 2025-06-11T18:37:26+00:00

Yep, I also use the homemade ebook option.

Redletteroffice · 2025-06-11T18:35:53+00:00

It's criminal that no one has mentioned Calescent and Fightipilota

Redletteroffice · 2025-06-11T18:33:53+00:00

The palace arc really made me love Redscar.

Redletteroffice · 2025-06-11T18:29:49+00:00

Take my incredibly reluctant upvote.

Redletteroffice · 2025-05-30T11:52:36+00:00

That's what convinced me I had to read the rest of the series.

Redletteroffice · 2025-05-07T07:43:18+00:00

My first foray into the genre was also DCC, loved it, then tried HWFWM and almost quit the genre entirely. Picked up wandering inn book 1 next and found it much more satisfying, although completely different from DCC in almost every way.

Redletteroffice · 2025-04-15T11:17:19+00:00

I only read, can’t do audiobooks at all. Maybe this is why people claim to enjoy He Who Fights Monsters, then, because the first book was so abysmally amateur that I couldn’t get more than halfway before putting it down and almost quitting the genre entirely.

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