AI Recipes
AI Recipes: runbooks for building with AI
Long-form runbooks for the patterns I have shipped: the steps, the reasons and the gotchas. Each recipe pairs with an installable Agent Skill. The recipe explains it; the skill makes it executable. Companion essay: Skills as SOPs.
The recipes
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Set up Claude Code with a Brain Vault
An Obsidian vault wired to Claude Code as persistent memory, with hooks, a save-a-note skill and an auto-committing git repo. (~25 min)
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Add a Real-Time Avatar to a Static Site
A speaking avatar embedded in a static page with HeyGen and ElevenLabs, including the token Worker and the mobile gotchas. (~35 min)
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Wire RAG into an ElevenLabs Agent
Connect documents to an ElevenLabs voice agent so it retrieves context before it answers, and avoid the page_build trap. (~20 min)
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Register an ElevenLabs Client Tool
Let a voice agent run functions in the visitor's browser: open modals, scroll to sections, play videos. (~25 min)
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Set Up Canonical Secrets
Move every scattered API key into one protected store, audit your .env files and revoke what leaked. (~30 min)
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Agent Skills
The installable version of each recipe, for Claude Code and other agents.
Coming next
Recipes get pulled from the brain vault as patterns prove themselves on real projects. In the queue:
- Build an autonomous editorial pipeline with the Great Minds Constellation
- Stand up a personal Cloudflare Worker for token minting
- Migrate a hand-coded blog into Jekyll without breaking URLs
- Build a gated admin dashboard with a Cloudflare Worker as the backend