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@LakeStevensPete Agreed, and the part that decides how much of it you get is what you have written down about the business. How you quote, what you never do, what a finished job looks like. In plain files the assistant reads first, so you are not re-explaining your own operation every time.
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Most AI setup advice is about settings. The part that decides whether it works is the part you write: how your business names things, what it must never touch, what finished looks like. That file is what your assistant reads before it does anything.
@dtcprophet This is the shape that works, and the compliance rules and the learning doc are the parts that keep paying. Kept as plain files rather than inside the command, you can point a second tool at the same set and it runs against your standards, not generic ones.
@SuccessSparksX Useful set. The step these lists tend to stop before is writing your own side down: how your business names things, what it should never do, what finished looks like. That file is what turns the tutorials into something that fits your actual work.
@RoryTyer@vishp_93@dylthorn The part worth writing down now is what you worked out on the way: why that box, what it must never touch, what to check when something looks off. In a file next to the work, so the next thing you automate starts from that rather than from memory.
@Andrew22Lane Good prompt, and the answer to your point 5 is usually the same thing: nothing durable is written down. The audit finds the bottlenecks, then the fixes need somewhere to live. A folder of plain rules it reads first is what makes next month's audit shorter.
@merkle_eric@mikepat711 The full context part is what did that, and it is worth keeping outside any one tool. If those team briefs sit as plain files in a folder, whatever you point at the folder next reads the same ones, so you are not rebuilding the context per project.
@markLFeinberg Agreed, and the owners who get that leverage tend to have written the business down first. How you quote, what you never discount, what a finished job looks like. Without that there is nothing for an assistant to work from except a fresh explanation each time.
@BikesnBitcoin@Rizolvr@LightspeedHQ@Tesla@RIDEcyclery The connection is the easy half. What makes it repeatable is the written rule behind it: which work orders it may open on its own, what it has to ask about first, what a finished one looks like. Kept as a file, so it survives you changing tools.
@zkjays Same read here. The half worth separating out is the rules from the task: how you name things, what to never touch, what finished looks like. Those go in a file the assistant reads first, so a new chat starts from them instead of from your memory of them.
@OHRealtor1 That is it exactly, and the part I would add is where it lives. Keep it as plain files in a folder the assistant reads first, not inside one chat. Then the next tool you point at the folder gets the same lead rules, and the asset stays yours.
@67tenmercantile@oldstackjournal Good place to start, and the first thing I would write for each of them is the standing stuff: how they name things, what to never touch, what a finished job looks like. Kept as plain files, so the automation reads the same rules every run.
Most setups do not fail on day one, they fail in month two. Notes drift, nobody prunes them, and stale sits next to current with nothing marking which is which. What fixed it for me is a maintenance review I schedule in my own assistant, with a written rule for what stays.
There is no app to install and nothing running in the background. It is a folder with written rules in it, and your own assistant reads them. The boring shape is the point: you can open any file and see exactly what it tells your AI to do.
@mikenevermiss Useful list. The half I keep on my own side is the judgment: my assumption defaults, what counts as risky in my contracts, which numbers I always check last. That sits in a file next to the work, so a skill runs against my standards rather than generic ones.
@samcoderx The move from question to role is the right one, and a role needs a job description. Mine is a file: what is in scope, what to always check last, what finished looks like. Without that written down the role gets re-explained every session, and it drifts.
@mattannen The internal part is the whole argument. What I'd add is where the context lives: in plain files next to the work, not in the session. Then a new thread, or a second assistant, starts from the same business rather than from whatever the last chat happened to hold.
@re_fba Setup friction is real. What made it stick for me was writing the standing stuff down first: how things get named, what to never touch, what finished looks like. Once that sits in a folder the assistant reads first, session one is useful instead of a round of corrections.
@nauriadigital Agreed, and the half worth separating out is the part that never changes. Role, audience and tone are the same every time. I keep those in a file the assistant reads first, so the prompt is just this week's caption instead of the whole standing brief again.