The Playbook

Bundles you can drop into your repo today.

The TruPath Playbook — Operating Claude Code at portfolio scale

Every bundle is a self-contained, MIT-licensed artifact extracted from live work across QC, MHG, and Parley. Tap any card to read the full bundle on this site, or grab the source on GitHub.

Sprint Contract System
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
Companion: Field Notes № 0002Open the bundle →
Postmortem 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
Companion: Field Notes № 0003Open the bundle →
CLAUDE.md 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
Companion: Field Notes № 0005Open the bundle →
Agent Routing 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
Companion: Field Notes № 0010Open the bundle →
Vault Structure
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
Companion: Field Notes № 0004Open the bundle →
Memory Architecture
Architecture● live

Memory Architecture

The MEMORY.md index pattern. Four memory types, a staleness protocol, and the one rule that stops memory systems from becoming archives.

  • Four memory types: user, feedback, project, reference — each with its own shelf life
  • Staleness protocol with date-stamp conventions and prune cycle
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Agent Hierarchies
Architecture● live

Agent Hierarchies

Authority levels, the mothership pattern, generation/evaluation separation. The structural decisions most multi-agent setups skip until they break.

  • Five authority levels from Observer to CEO — each with distinct write-access rules
  • Generation/evaluation separation: why the agent that built it can't grade it
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Token Discipline
Discipline● live

Token Discipline

Context window hygiene. What belongs in CLAUDE.md vs memory vs code. The compaction strategy that keeps sessions fast after month 3.

  • CLAUDE.md size target: under 200 lines — if it's longer, information leaked in that belongs elsewhere
  • The load-everything vs. read-on-demand decision, with the pointer pattern that solves it
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TruPath Stack
Architecture● shipping

TruPath Stack

The assembled picture — how agents, hooks, memory, sprint contracts, kanban, and the Telegram bridge connect into a single operating system for a multi-venture portfolio.

  • Three ventures, five agents, 15 hooks, one Supabase kanban — wired together
  • Telegram bridge: phone → Claude headless → portfolio status in 30 seconds
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Hooks Bundle
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
Companion: Field Notes № 0004Open the bundle →
The Security & IP Discipline Playbook
Discipline● shipping

The Security & IP Discipline Playbook

Five gates that keep a fast-moving AI shop from leaking its secrets, its source license, or its patent rights. Written the day I pasted my session tokens into a chat.

  • Disclosure, license, secrets, agent-code, and IP-review gates — each with a checklist
  • Grounded in the 2025–2026 record: the GitHub key leaks, the AGPL forks, the trade-secret cases
Companion: Field Notes № 0008Read the bundle →
The CV-for-Physical-Sports Wedge Playbook
Discipline● shipping

The CV-for-Physical-Sports Wedge Playbook

Don't build computer vision for sports. Build it for one sport — the one with the most constrained geometry and the simplest rules — get it referee-grade, then generalize. Three filters and the trust-bar framework.

  • Three filters that turn 'CV for sports' into a winnable first product
  • The trust-bar framework — why 96% accurate is a dispute generator
Companion: Field Notes № 0007Read the bundle →
Why run a parallel research arm
Discipline● live

Why run a parallel research arm

A small operator can run a parallel research project alongside two startups without it cannibalizing them — but only under specific conditions, and Parley is the worked example.

  • The decompression-channel + underserved-research-area thesis
  • Three conditions that mean don't start one
Companion: Field Notes № 0016Open the bundle →
How to run one without it cannibalizing the startup
Discipline● live

How to run one without it cannibalizing the startup

Four discipline levers that let a side research arm survive contact with the main work — scope rails, monthly cadence, public publishing, and decision logs, with kill criteria written down in advance.

  • Scope rails + monthly cadence: the two levers that absorb the main work's variance
  • A public publishing loop + decision logs: borrowed deadlines + a real audit trail
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The Honest Sign-Language Research Playbook
Discipline● live

The Honest Sign-Language Research Playbook

The discipline behind Parley's notebooks: question-first contracts, signer-holdout splits, multi-seed floors, failure-modes-first, and a Deaf-community honesty checklist. The rules that make a 45% you can trust beat an 85% you can't.

  • Pre-registered hypotheses + signer-holdout eval, from real notebooks
  • Report the per-signer distribution, not the pooled mean
Companion: Field Notes № 0020Open the bundle →
Pre-register the recipe before you rank architectures
Discipline● live

Pre-register the recipe before you rank architectures

A shared training recipe across architectures does not control for the recipe. It bakes it into the result and disguises it as an architecture finding. Four cheap controls keep the ranking honest.

  • Why a shared recipe measures the recipe, not the model
  • The four controls: per-architecture recipe, one hardware, seed spread, shuffled-label check
Companion: Field Notes № 0022Open the bundle →
Inside the deck

Three slides from the master playbook.

Defining the Playbook — reality versus noise
01 · Defining the Playbook
Agents forget rules. Expectations fail. Constraints scale.
02 · The thesis
How to read the Playbook — diagnostic tool, not linear book
03 · How to read it
Curriculum · 26 lessons

The lessons under the bundles.

The bundles above are extracted artifacts. The lessons are the disciplines that produced them. Three tiers, twenty-six lessons, each with a diagnostic prompt, an annotated transcript, a prompt kit, and a homework checklist. All live; all free.