Operator field guide
Practical field notes for owners installing AI agents, automations, and knowledge systems in real businesses.
Reviewed and expanded from my original articles on X.
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Routines, Desktop scheduled tasks, and /loop each run Claude on a timer — but they differ on where they run, what they can touch, and how fast. Here's the decision matrix.
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Implementation notes, decision frameworks, and real operating experiments.
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The four Managed Agents concepts, a safe deployment sequence, and the permission boundary to understand before production use.
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How I think about a Mac Mini, a laptop, selective sync, and a message channel without turning chat into an unrestricted remote shell.
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Ten useful agent workflows, rewritten around read-only defaults, minimum access, human approval, and measurable outcomes.
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A dated operator checklist for context, routing, schedules, subagents, logs, voice, and defense in depth.
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A governed three-layer workflow for coordinating agents, applying reusable operating skills, and running constrained experiments.
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Paperclip's organizational model—roles, goals, tasks, budgets, adapters, approvals, and heartbeats—reframed as a human-governed control plane.
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