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Your Agent Does Not Need A Better Prompt. It Needs A Folder.

Free guide: the whole breakdown, the exact file tree, all 20 pieces, and a copy-paste prompt for every single one, so your agent stops starting every session from zero.

  • The whole breakdown, all 20 pieces in build order
  • The exact file tree, as it sits on disk
  • A copy-paste prompt for every single piece
  • The three rules that keep it from turning into a junk drawer

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What's inside

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What's Inside

All 20 pieces in build order, exactly as listed in the video The full file tree, as it sits on disk A copy-paste prompt for every single piece The three rules that stop it turning into a junk drawer

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Why the structure comes first

Most people start building an agent by asking it to do something.

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The whole tree, on one page

This is what you are building.

The rest of the guide

  1. Pieces 1 to 3: the root and the house rulesOne folder that holds every project, a brain folder inside it, and a rules file at the top that gets read at the start of every session.
  2. Piece 4: model routing, so you stop burning tokensNot every step needs your smartest, most expensive model.
  3. Pieces 5 to 7: what it actually knows about youFive context files about your business, a memory folder that keeps track across sessions, and an index so it can find things instantly instead of reading the whole folder every time.
  4. Piece 8: a tools file, so it stops suggesting things you already haveWithout this, every session re-argues which tool to use and the agent keeps proposing something new instead of using what is already wired up.
  5. Pieces 9 and 10: one project, one folderEvery project you are working on gets its own folder, and a context file inside it saying where that project stands.
  6. Pieces 11 and 12: Obsidian and GitHubTwo things that turn a folder into a system you can live in.
  7. Pieces 13 and 14: this week, and what is in progressA now.md holds short-term memory: what is live this week.
  8. Piece 15: a rules file, so projects do not bleed togetherHow work gets organised, written down once.
  9. Pieces 16 to 18: skills, workflows, and scriptsThree different things, and the difference is worth learning once.
  10. Pieces 19 and 20: keeping it securePasswords and keys live in exactly one file, and one more file makes sure that file never leaves your machine.
  11. Three rules that keep it leanThe structure is easy to build and easy to let rot.

About the author

Cooper Simson

Founder of Actionable AI. 30,000+ operators read the newsletter.

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