Seth Shoultes

Reference Catalog

Canonical URLs for resources this blog references. The daily-blog pipeline and the inline-link retrofit script consult this file to add hyperlinks on natural mentions, so a reader can follow any concept to its source.

The default behavior is TO LINK. If the post mentions a phrase that matches an entry below, link the first natural occurrence. Abstain only when the phrase is too generic to read naturally as a link. Missing links is a worse failure than over-linking.

Format

Each entry is a ## <name> heading with these fields:

Add new entries as resources come online. Triggers should be specific enough to read naturally as link text.


Recipes (on this site)

Brain vault recipe

url: /recipes/claude-code-brain-vault.html triggers: brain vault, brain-vault recipe, the vault setup, claude code brain vault description: The full setup recipe for the brain vault — Obsidian + Git + the /brain skill + lifecycle hooks.

Canonical secrets recipe

url: /recipes/set-up-canonical-secrets.html triggers: canonical secrets, the canonical secrets recipe, set up canonical secrets, ~/.config/dev-secrets, dev-secrets description: The recipe for setting up the canonical secrets file at ~/.config/dev-secrets/secrets.env.

ElevenLabs RAG recipe

url: /recipes/add-rag-to-elevenlabs-agent.html triggers: ElevenLabs RAG, add RAG to ElevenLabs, the RAG recipe, knowledge base of URLs description: The recipe for adding a knowledge base of URLs to an ElevenLabs Conversational AI agent.

HeyGen avatar recipe

url: /recipes/add-avatar-to-site.html triggers: HeyGen avatar, add an avatar to a site, the avatar recipe description: The recipe for adding a HeyGen avatar widget to a static site.

ElevenLabs client-tool recipe

url: /recipes/register-elevenlabs-client-tool.html triggers: ElevenLabs client tool, register a client tool, the client-tool recipe description: The recipe for registering a client-side tool with an ElevenLabs Conversational AI agent.

Public GitHub repos under sethshoultes/

building-with-ai-brain (public skeleton brain)

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain triggers: building-with-ai-brain, public skeleton, the public-readable mirror, the brain repo, public brain description: The public-readable mirror of the brain vault — example structure (learnings/, runbooks/, vault/) for anyone building their own.

building-with-ai-skills (public skills cookbook)

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-skills triggers: building-with-ai-skills, public skills repo, the skills cookbook, the cookbook recipe, the public skills cookbook description: The public cookbook of SKILL.md examples that can be installed by anyone.

great-authors-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-authors-plugin triggers: great-authors-plugin, the great-authors plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — author personas (Hemingway, McPhee, King, etc).

great-engineers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-engineers-plugin triggers: great-engineers-plugin, the great-engineers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — engineer personas (Carmack, Knuth, Torvalds, etc).

great-designers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-designers-plugin triggers: great-designers-plugin, the great-designers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — design personas (Rams, Norman, Kare, etc).

great-counsels-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-counsels-plugin triggers: great-counsels-plugin, the great-counsels plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — legal/counsel personas.

great-marketers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-marketers-plugin triggers: great-marketers-plugin, the great-marketers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — marketing personas (Ogilvy, Bernbach, etc).

great-operators-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-operators-plugin triggers: great-operators-plugin, the great-operators plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — operations personas (Cook, Grove, Munger, etc).

great-publishers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-publishers-plugin triggers: great-publishers-plugin, the great-publishers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — publishing personas.

great-researchers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-researchers-plugin triggers: great-researchers-plugin, the great-researchers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — research personas.

great-filmmakers-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-filmmakers-plugin triggers: great-filmmakers-plugin, the great-filmmakers plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — filmmaker personas.

great-educators-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-educators-plugin triggers: great-educators-plugin, the great-educators plugin description: Plugin in the Great Minds Constellation — educator personas (Montessori, Freire, Feynman, etc).

great-minds-plugin

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-minds-plugin triggers: great-minds-plugin, the great-minds plugin, the constellation orchestrator description: The orchestrator plugin that coordinates the Great Minds Constellation personas.

great-minds-constellation

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-minds-constellation triggers: great-minds-constellation, the Great Minds Constellation, the constellation description: The umbrella project — meta-plugin combining all the great-* persona plugins.

great-minds-cookbook

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/great-minds-cookbook triggers: great-minds-cookbook, the great-minds cookbook description: The cookbook of multi-persona recipes — multi-agent essay production, etc.

dash-command-bar

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/dash-command-bar triggers: dash-command-bar description: A command-bar interface project.

Brain learnings (within building-with-ai-brain)

Learning: agents-hallucinate-apis

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/agents-hallucinate-apis.md triggers: agents-hallucinate-apis, hallucinated APIs, hallucinated API description: Brain learning on agents inventing API surfaces that don’t exist.

Learning: hooks-are-commitment-devices

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/hooks-are-commitment-devices.md triggers: hooks-are-commitment-devices learning description: Brain learning that became the post Hooks Are Commitment Devices.

Learning: hooks-as-temporal-grammar-of-tool-systems

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/hooks-as-temporal-grammar-of-tool-systems.md triggers: hooks-as-temporal-grammar, temporal grammar of tool systems description: Brain learning that became the Nouns and Verbs post.

Learning: constellation-pipeline-transmits-concern

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/constellation-pipeline-transmits-concern.md triggers: constellation-pipeline-transmits-concern, the pipeline transmits the operator’s concern learning description: Brain learning on the pipeline transmitting the operator’s concern.

Learning: multi-agent-essay-production-recipe

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/multi-agent-essay-production-recipe.md triggers: multi-agent-essay-production-recipe, the multi-agent essay production recipe description: Brain learning that documents the multi-agent recipe used to produce blog posts.

Learning: orchestrator-and-writer-are-different-ai-roles

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/orchestrator-and-writer-are-different-ai-roles.md triggers: orchestrator-and-writer-are-different-ai-roles, orchestrator versus writer description: Brain learning on the role separation between orchestrator and writer.

Learning: cross-model-persona-portability

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/cross-model-persona-portability.md triggers: cross-model-persona-portability, persona portability across models description: Brain learning on portable persona files across different AI models.

Learning: github-pages-rebuild-race

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/github-pages-rebuild-race-breaks-post-publish-webhooks.md triggers: GitHub Pages rebuild race, pages rebuild race description: Brain learning on Pages rebuild timing breaking webhooks.

Learning: liteavatar-sdk-no-client-user-message

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/liteavatar-sdk-no-client-user-message.md triggers: liteavatar SDK, LITE-mode SDK, session.message limitation description: Brain learning on LITE-mode SDK limitations.

Learning: elevenlabs-tool-call-event-shape

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/elevenlabs-tool-call-event-shape.md triggers: elevenlabs-tool-call-event-shape, ElevenLabs tool call event shape description: Brain learning on the nesting of ElevenLabs tool-call event payloads.

Learning: mcp-discovery-loop-three-file-pattern

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/mcp-discovery-loop-three-file-pattern.md triggers: MCP discovery loop, three-file pattern, mcp-discovery-loop description: Brain learning on the three-file pattern for MCP agent discovery.

Learning: cloudflare-worker-custom-domain

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/learnings/cloudflare-worker-custom-domain-needs-zone-account-match.md triggers: cloudflare-worker-custom-domain, Cloudflare Worker custom domain description: Brain learning on Cloudflare Worker custom-domain zone-account match constraint.

Brain runbooks

Runbook: Add a public MCP endpoint to a static site

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/runbooks/Add%20a%20public%20MCP%20endpoint%20to%20a%20static%20site.md triggers: add a public MCP endpoint, MCP endpoint to a static site description: Runbook for adding a public MCP endpoint to a static site.

Runbook: Attach a Cloudflare Worker to a custom subdomain

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/runbooks/Attach%20a%20Cloudflare%20Worker%20to%20a%20custom%20subdomain.md triggers: attach a Cloudflare Worker, Cloudflare Worker to a custom subdomain description: Runbook for attaching a Cloudflare Worker to a custom subdomain.

Runbook: Register ElevenLabs Client Tool via API

url: https://github.com/sethshoultes/building-with-ai-brain/blob/main/runbooks/Register%20ElevenLabs%20Client%20Tool%20via%20API.md triggers: register ElevenLabs client tool, ElevenLabs client tool via API description: Runbook for registering an ElevenLabs client tool programmatically.

External sites

Garage Door Science

url: https://garagedoorscience.com triggers: garagedoorscience.com, garage door science description: Seth’s primary product/site — the working build that the blog often references.

Garage Door Science: brain

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/brain triggers: garagedoorscience.com/brain, the GDS brain description: The brain page on garagedoorscience.com.

Garage Door Science: developers

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/developers triggers: garagedoorscience.com/developers, the GDS developer site, garagedoorscience developers description: The developer area of garagedoorscience.com.

Garage Door Science: MCP

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/mcp triggers: garagedoorscience.com/mcp, the GDS MCP endpoint description: The MCP endpoint for garagedoorscience.com.

Garage Door Science: openapi

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/openapi.json triggers: garagedoorscience.com/openapi.json, the GDS OpenAPI spec description: The OpenAPI spec for garagedoorscience.com.

Garage Door Science: llms.txt

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/llms.txt triggers: garagedoorscience.com/llms.txt, the GDS llms.txt description: The llms.txt for garagedoorscience.com.

Garage Door Science: ask-maya

url: https://garagedoorscience.com/ask-maya triggers: garagedoorscience.com/ask-maya, ask Maya, the Maya avatar description: The Maya avatar conversational interface on garagedoorscience.com.

Agents Assemble Workshop

url: https://github.com/caseproof/agents-assemble-workshop-exercise triggers: agents-assemble-workshop-exercise, the agents-assemble workshop description: The Agents Assemble workshop exercise repo.

Agents Assemble Workshop (live)

url: https://caseproof.github.io/agents-assemble-workshop-exercise/ triggers: agents-assemble-workshop, the workshop site description: The live workshop site for Agents Assemble.

LiveAvatar Agent Skills

url: https://github.com/heygen-com/liveavatar-agent-skills triggers: liveavatar-agent-skills, LiveAvatar agent skills description: HeyGen’s LiveAvatar agent skills repo.