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.mdsection 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]