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Status scaffold – nothing here is drafted · Life living · Reader you, about to build the machine the agents run on

How to build the machine the agents run on

a development box, a session multiplexer, and a network, each chosen from a requirement rather than from preference

The worked example throughout is the example system.

What is in this folder

This guide What the process is, why it is shaped this way, and what good output looks like. Written for you
prompt.md The instruction set to paste into an agent session. Written for the agent
templates/ Skeletons for every file the process produces. Copy the directory

Read this once. Use the prompt every time.

Draft order: 9th. See PLAN.md section 10.


Context

What you are producing

[the artefact, and what it is for. If it is a document written to open a conversation rather than close one, say so here]

What you need before you start

What it costs

[figures, dated, re-read from source. Or "not measured" said plainly]

Who does what

You the operator
The agent
The participant

The shape of the work

[the sections, as a map, with what happens in each]


1 · Set up

1.1 · [step]

Agent … · You

[what to do]

Worked example.

[the actual thing, on the example system]


2 · [the process]

2.1 · [step]

Agent … · Participant … · You


Evaluating the quality

These are yours to run, on the agent's output. Do not ask the agent whether its own work was good.


What's not solved yet

[the gaps, the proxies, the principles still unmet]


Source material

  • redmoor_infra/docs/devbox.md — the specification, the sizing evidence, the containment argument, the rejected alternatives, and the price correction.
  • redmoor_infra/ansible/group_vars/devbox.yml — the multiplexer version and pinning, the service definition, the memory ceiling, the network configuration.
  • redmoor_docs/deep_dives/20260815_CI_Cost_And_Remote_Development.md — the research behind it.

Open

  • [what has to be decided before this can be drafted]