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THE PRACTICAL LIBRARY

Take the method with you.

Working templates, operating disciplines, and reusable tools. Open a playbook to see the method, examples, and available files.

18 entries to exploreFrom the TruPath archive
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Sprint Contract System

Pre-work contracts co-signed by builder and evaluator. Eliminates close-enough shipping. 48 contracts shipped.

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Postmortem Discipline

Blameless postmortems with structural action items. The discipline that makes the same mistake stop happening twice.

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CLAUDE.md Template

The annotated skeleton every Claude Code operator needs before their second week. Three worked examples, one framing essay, and the advice everyone skips: what NOT to put in.

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Agent Routing Template

The chief-of-staff + N-specialists scaffold. Routing table, authority levels, and an escalation protocol — the piece everyone skips until it bites them.

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Vault Structure

13-folder Obsidian template that scales across multiple ventures. The operating system around your AI agents.

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Memory Architecture

The MEMORY.md index pattern. Four memory types, a staleness protocol, and the one rule that stops memory systems from becoming archives.

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Agent Hierarchies

Authority levels, the mothership pattern, generation/evaluation separation. The structural decisions most multi-agent setups skip until they break.

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Token Discipline

Context window hygiene. What belongs in CLAUDE.md vs memory vs code. The compaction strategy that keeps sessions fast after month 3.

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TruPath Stack

The assembled picture — how agents, hooks, memory, sprint contracts, kanban, and the Telegram bridge connect into a single operating system for a multi-venture portfolio.

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Hooks Bundle

Five production-tested Claude Code hooks — session loading, config protection, eval auditing, decision logging, anchor-check cadence. The mechanical enforcement layer your CLAUDE.md rules have been promising.

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The Security & IP Discipline Playbook

Five gates that keep a fast-moving AI shop from leaking its secrets, its source license, or its patent rights. Written the day I pasted my session tokens into a chat.

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The CV-for-Physical-Sports Wedge Playbook

Don't build computer vision for sports. Build it for one sport — the one with the most constrained geometry and the simplest rules — get it referee-grade, then generalize. Three filters and the trust-bar framework.

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Why run a parallel research arm

A small operator can run a parallel research project alongside two startups without it cannibalizing them — but only under specific conditions, and Parley is the worked example.

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How to run one without it cannibalizing the startup

Four discipline levers that let a side research arm survive contact with the main work — scope rails, monthly cadence, public publishing, and decision logs, with kill criteria written down in advance.

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The Honest Sign-Language Research Playbook

The discipline behind Parley's notebooks: question-first contracts, signer-holdout splits, multi-seed floors, failure-modes-first, and a Deaf-community honesty checklist. The rules that make a 45% you can trust beat an 85% you can't.

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Run a falsification session before you trust your own asset

Operators accumulate load-bearing assets that were built under deadline and never adversarially examined. A one-evening AI falsification session is the cheapest insurance that exists, and the discipline is scheduling it before the asset feeds a decision.

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The five-phase audit: a science agent's working method

An agent audit of a Quantum Caddy simulator ran five phases in a fixed order — reproduce the as-built model, rebuild it from first principles, map the divergence, budget the uncertainty, ship a ranked measurement list. What each phase produced, what breaks it, and how to run it on a demand model or a game economy.

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