Recipes · For people who like to read first

Building with AI — Recipes

Long-form runbooks for the patterns I've shipped. The why, the how, and the gotchas — written for humans, with screenshots when they help. Each recipe pairs with an installable Agent Skill: the recipe explains it; the skill makes it executable.

Companion essay: Skills as SOPs.

Knowledge management · ~25 min

Set up Claude Code with a Brain Vault

An Obsidian vault at ~/brain wired to Claude Code as persistent memory. SessionStart and Stop hooks, a /brain skill that saves notes from any session, an auto-committing git repo, and a semantic search index. The pattern that keeps me from forgetting what I learned the last time.

Read the recipe →

Coming next

Recipes pulled from the brain vault as patterns prove themselves on real projects. Tracked queue: