One Run Contract Every CLI Loads: Stop Rules and Finish Lines in AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md stop rules only count if every CLI loads them. Write one run contract with a finish line, then prove Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI read it.
Read the storyTHE INTEL LIBRARY
Playbooks
Banked Resets Are Perishable Capacity: Keep a Reset Ledger
A Claude rate limit reset refills one window, then expires. Keep a banked resets ledger: grant, expiry, owner, redeem surface, spend rule and a waste report.
Read the story
The “Ask for More” Button Is an Intake Queue: Budget Requests With a Revert Date
Copilot budget increase requests are GA, and nothing in the docs reverts an approval. Run budget requests as a queue with required fields and a revert date.
Read the story
Cost per Completed Task Beats $/MTok: Price the Finished Job, Not the Token
AI agent cost per task beats list price. Count attempts, retries, escalations, cache and tool meters, divide by tasks that finished, and compare models on that.
Read the story
“Unconfigured” Is a Vendor Decision: Snapshot Every Agent Admin Toggle Before Oct 22
Copilot turns on Unconfigured features Oct 22 unless you decide first. Snapshot every agent admin toggle, diff it weekly and give each default an owner.
Read the story
Kill Low-Effort Retry Loops: Price Effort per Completed Task
Reasoning effort cost looks cheap per attempt until you count retries. Record served effort, price effort per completed task, then pin a floor and ceiling.
Read the story
Speed Is a Meter: Write a Speed Budget Before Anyone Types /fast
Claude fast mode cost is 2x standard for faster output only. Write a speed budget per lane: who may use /fast, opt-in, a monthly cap and tested kill switches.
Read the story
“Free” Weights, Paid Tasks: Price Self-Hosted Overnight Runs per Completed Task
Self-hosted LLM cost per completed task: price hardware, power, operator minutes and failed overnight runs, then compare with hosted models at pennies a task.
Read the story
Write a Finish Line the Transcript Can Prove
An agent goal completion condition is judged from the transcript alone. Write an end state, a stated check, constraints and a bound; back it with a Stop hook.
Read the story
The Evidence That Earns a Model the Default Slot
A vendor-set default model is a proposal. Pin the incumbent, then promote through shadow and canary lanes on merged-PR, revert and cost-per-task gates.
Read the story
Never From a 6-Inch Screen: Write a Remote-Approval Policy
A remote approval policy for coding agents: what a phone may approve, what never goes remote, and a presence-marker hook plus a monthly drill to hold the line.
Read the story
Review Bots Now Run PR Code: Where They Execute, What They See, What a Verdict Proves
Review bots now run PR code. Register where each one executes, which secrets and egress it gets and what its verdict proves, then drill it with a canary PR.
Read the story
Runs Locally Is Not Stays Local: Audit What Your Agent's Remote Control Stores
Coding agent remote control keeps code on your desk but relays the transcript. Build a per-lane residency table, set off-switches, archive what stays local.
Read the story
Who Actually Answered? Log the Served Model When Safety Fallbacks Swap It
Safety fallbacks can hand your request to an older model mid-run. Log the requested vs served model on every call, alert on mismatches, and fail closed.
Read the story
TASKS.md With Receipts: Every Tick Needs Evidence
A TASKS.md checklist survives compaction, but a tick is only a claim. Give every tick a receipt a verifier can re-run, and revert any tick that has none.
Read the story
Unofficial AI Wrappers: Your API Is Someone Else's Login, and the Account Is the Collateral
Unofficial AI wrappers turn a consumer login into an API, and a personal account becomes the collateral. Inventory each lane's credential and retire the risk.
Read the story
Untrusted Telemetry In, Agent Code Out: Register Every Auto-Remediation Path
Auto-remediation lets error events, incidents and bot comments start coding agents. Register every path, gate the code-writing lanes, then drill with a canary.
Read the story
Who Owns Compaction on an Unattended Lane: Notice, Warn, Force, and a Note-to-Self
Agent context compaction on unattended lanes: who fires it, token thresholds under price lines, what must survive the cut, and whether the summary is readable.
Read the storyPUT THE IDEAS TO WORKMany assistants.
Meet Automater Many assistants.
One place to remember.
Bring your AI sessions, context, and usage together with Automater.
Get started
Be the boss of all your AIs.
Lite is free forever, installs in about a minute, and reads the session history you already have.
Download Lite
Also for macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux.
Signed installer. No account. Session content stays on your disk.
