Michael Wills michaelwills

The Software Factory Playbook — Dex Horthy's 4-gate workflow as a skill

A Claude Code Agent Skill built from Dex Horthy's (HumanLayer) playbook on David Ondrej's podcast.

"Once the model has written thousands of lines of code, it is harder to change. The sessions that generate design docs are context-light — you get the most model intelligence when you do the hard thinking early."

By default, agents build horizontally: all the backend, then all the frontend, then a 2,000-line diff lands in your lap and reviewing it is your problem. This skill flips that. Every decision that matters gets made before the code exists — where changing your mind costs a sentence, not a rewrite.

What it does

Ralph Audit Agent Instructions (OpenAI Codex)

Safety Notice (Customize)

If this codebase is production, handles money, or touches sensitive data: treat this audit loop as a high-risk operation. Run with least privilege, avoid exporting long-lived credentials in your shell, and keep the agent in read-only mode.

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Community

Elixir Slack Group

Cheatsheets

GenServer Cheatsheet by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao

Books

Community

Elixir Slack Group

Cheatsheets

GenServer Cheatsheet by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao

Books

@kfreytag responding to @Nopik

Responding to your question from early this morning about SNS-triggered lambdas. In my experience, you only get one message / Record at a time. Here’s my revised JAWS handler wherein I always deal with a JobId

	# OpenClaw Implementation Prompts

	Each prompt below is a self-contained brief you can hand to an AI coding assistant (or use as a project spec) to build that use case from scratch. Adapt the specific services to whatever you already use — the patterns are what matter.

	---

	## 1) Personal CRM Intelligence

	```
	Build me a personal CRM system that automatically tracks everyone I interact with, with smart filtering so it only adds real people — not newsletters, bots, or cold outreach.

	# use ffmpeg to extract audio from video file
	% ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 outfile.wav

	# use sox to convert to raw
	sox infile.wav -b 16 -s -c 1 -r 16k -t raw outfile.raw

	# https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/audio%20types
	# use ffmpeg to extract RAW! audio from video file
	ffmpeg -i input -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le output.raw
	% ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 1 -ar 16000 outfile.raw

	TEST_SERVERLESS_EXE_CF=false
	TEST_SERVERLESS_EMAIL=YOUR_EMAIL
	TEST_SERVERLESS_REGION1=us-east-1
	TEST_SERVERLESS_REGION2=us-west-2
	TEST_SERVERLESS_STAGE1=development
	TEST_SERVERLESS_STAGE2=production
	TEST_SERVERLESS_LAMBDA_ROLE=ARN_FROM_A_PROJECT
	TEST_SERVERLESS_AWS_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_KEY
	TEST_SERVERLESS_AWS_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_SECRET
	NPM_BIN="/path/to/node /path/to/npm"