A TruPath Ventures publication

Field notes from operators building with Claude Code.

Three ventures on one stack. Mile High Golf. Quantum Caddy. Parley. Field Notes is what I learned that week. The Playbook is the durable reference underneath. No theory. Receipts only.

Toolkit

Bundles you can drop into your repo today.

Every bundle is a self-contained artifact extracted from the live work across QC, MHG, and Parley. Not a screenshot of how I work. The actual files I work from.

DISCIPLINE
Discipline● live

Sprint Contract System

Pre-work contracts co-signed by builder and evaluator. Eliminates close-enough shipping. 48 contracts shipped.

  • Adapted from Anthropic's Harness 2.0 research
  • 6 worked examples from QC, Parley, and the Mile High software
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DISCIPLINE
Discipline● live

Postmortem Discipline

Blameless postmortems with structural action items. The discipline that makes the same mistake stop happening twice.

  • 26+ postmortems shipped across QC and Parley
  • Owner-sentiment section is required, not optional
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TEMPLATE
Template● live

CLAUDE.md Template

The annotated skeleton every Claude Code operator needs before their second week. Three worked examples, one framing essay, and the advice everyone skips: what NOT to put in.

  • 3 worked examples: solo founder, 5-person team, agency with client rotation
  • Covers the load-everything vs. read-on-demand decision explicitly
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TEMPLATE
Template● live

Agent Routing Template

The chief-of-staff + N-specialists scaffold. Routing table, authority levels, and an escalation protocol — the piece everyone skips until it bites them.

  • 3 worked examples: solo founder, three-venture stack, 5-person team
  • Escalation protocol with a full worked example — the most-skipped piece
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ARCHITECTURE
Architecture● live

Vault Structure

13-folder Obsidian template that scales across multiple ventures. The operating system around your AI agents.

  • 13 polished templates, ready to use
  • Karpathy-style research synthesis layer included
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TOOLKIT
Toolkit● live

Hooks Bundle

Five production-tested Claude Code hooks — session loading, config protection, eval auditing, decision logging, anchor-check cadence. The mechanical enforcement layer your CLAUDE.md rules have been promising.

  • All 5 hooks read real Claude Code JSON input — none is pseudocode
  • Config-protection hook prevents the class of incident that cost 4.5 hours of test setup
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Newsletter

Latest Field Notes

The loop

How the operator loop runs.

Capture turns into knowledge. Knowledge turns into shipped work. Shipped work that breaks turns into postmortems. Postmortems turn into rules. Rules carry forward to the next session. The compounding part is the actual product — the rest is just the mechanics that produce it.

Capture

Every chat, every meeting, every observation, every postmortem note. Drop into 00-Inbox/ or 09-Research/Inbox/ first. Don't try to organize at capture time — just don't lose it.

The Vault Structure
Reference

The Playbook

How TruPath Labs runs Claude Code.

Three MIT-licensed bundles you can drop into your repo today, plus a 26-lesson curriculum covering the disciplines underneath: Foundations, Operating, Expert. Each lesson has a diagnostic prompt, an annotated transcript, a prompt kit, a homework checklist. Real artifacts from QC, MHG, and Parley.

v1.0 · 3 bundles · 26 lessons · all live
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Receipts

The lab

Mile High Golf
Mile High Golf
Indoor entertainment venue, Hickory NC

Pre-launch. SBA underwriting in progress. Operations management runs on Claude Code agents.

Quantum Caddy
Quantum Caddy
AR sports tech, smart cornhole board

Phase 0 MVP. Smart-board hardware + CV pipeline + ESP32 firmware. The engineering testbed for everything we write about.

Parley
Parley
AR glasses for deaf/hearing conversation

Phase 0 research arm. Sign-language recognition. Hard reasoning problems, in the open on Kaggle.