Free. Your computer. Your files.
An AI that works out of your files, not a chat box
One folder on your own computer. Claude reads what's in it, follows your rules, and writes the way you do. Free. Setup is one double-click and four questions.
| Windows | Tested on one machine |
|---|---|
| Mac | New, not tested yet |
| Installs | About 500 MB of free tools |
| Privacy | Setup sends nothing off your computer |
| Undo | Delete the folder to remove what it built |
For a transcript, Claude opens only what the job needs: the lit files.
For a PDF, Claude opens only what the job needs: the lit files.
To learn your voice, Claude opens only what the job needs: the lit files.
The problem
The chat box forgets
You explain your business, paste in a file, get a decent answer, and the next day it's all gone. Your files were never in there to begin with. So every job starts from zero, and you end up doing the remembering for it.
What you get
What you end up with
- A set of folders laid out the way you already think, so the AI finds things where you'd look.
- Three short files that tell the AI where things are, so it reads only the folder the job needs.
- A voice file, so anything it writes for you sounds like you and not like a press release.
Setup
How it works
- Unzip it. Move the folder to Documents.
- Run setup. Double-click
setup.cmdon Windows orsetup.commandon a Mac. A black window installs the tools and Claude Code. Fifteen to thirty minutes. Windows may ask "allow this app to make changes" a few times. Say yes. A Mac refuses it the first time: open System Settings, then Privacy and Security, and click Open Anyway. - Answer four questions. Claude opens and asks what you do, what work you want help with, how you like things filed, and how it should sound. "Not sure" is a fine answer. It builds the folders and tells you three things to try.
Skills
What it can do on day one
It arrives knowing how to do thirty things. Most of them bring outside material in: web pages, posts, videos, documents, photos. The rest look after the workspace itself. Another 8 are designed and on the way, marked so you can see where it's going. Each group opens to the full list.
Reads the web, even behind logins7 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
agent-reach | Reads posts behind logins on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Throwaway accounts only. | Ready |
agent-web-fetch | Decides which reader to try for a hard page, and treats whatever comes back as data, not instructions. | Ready |
chrome-tools | Works in pages you're already signed in to, through your own browser. | Ready |
last30days | What people said about a topic in the last 30 days, across eight platforms. | Ready |
scrapling | Reads pages that refuse a normal fetch: 403s, JavaScript-only pages. | Ready |
web-read | Reads open web pages and web searches, and files what it found with the source. | Ready |
x-read | Reads public X posts by link, many at once. No login. | Ready |
Turns video and audio into text you can use2 ready, 1 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
channel-mine | Reads a whole YouTube channel or podcast back catalog and sorts it by theme. | Ready |
video-watcher | A timestamped transcript of any video, made on your own computer. Optional shot-by-shot breakdown. | Ready |
media-tools | Convert, trim, resize, make a GIF, pull the audio out, strip metadata, batch a folder. | Coming |
Reads your documents1 ready, 1 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
markitdown | Turns Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML and Outlook files into plain text with a note of where each came from. | Ready |
paperwork | Scan or photo in, read, named by date and type, filed, and the dates that matter pulled out. | Coming |
Finds photos, with the rights recorded4 ready, 1 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
client-asset-harvester | Collects every image from an existing website, with its details and the logo picked out. | Ready |
gallery-dl | Pulls full-size images from galleries and social pages you own. | Ready |
image-search | Finds free stock photos on Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay and records the license for each. | Ready |
loc-dl | Downloads Library of Congress images with their rights statement attached. | Ready |
photo-organizer | Rename by date taken, find duplicates, sort by month. Nothing uploaded, nothing deleted. | Coming |
Answers a question from many sources, with receipts2 ready, 1 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
deep-research | Breaks a question into parts, searches from several angles, checks claims against each other, and writes a sourced brief. | Ready |
notebooklm-research | Runs Google NotebookLM from the workspace and knows which of its outputs answers which question. | Ready |
meeting-prep | What the workspace knows about a person or company, plus a web read, on one page. | Coming |
Coming: writing in your voice2 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
social-copywriter | Posts for nine platforms, each in that platform's format and habits. | Coming |
resume-and-letter | A resume tailored to a posting, the cover letter, and letters with stakes: a dispute, a landlord, a refund. | Coming |
Coming: the paperwork of life2 coming
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
money-log | Bank or card export in, categorized monthly summary and recurring charges out. No bank connection. | Coming |
trip-plan | Bookings in, one itinerary out, with what is still unbooked. | Coming |
Looks after itself and stays current6 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
gap-finder | Notices when a task has no tool, says so, and offers to build one, find one, or do it by hand. | Ready |
tool-vetting | Six questions before anything gets installed. Adopt, try, or skip. | Ready |
update | Pulls new skills and tools from the public repo. Never touches your files. | Ready |
voice-extractor | Builds your voice file from things you actually wrote, then checks it blind. | Ready |
workspace-audit | Checks that your map still matches the folders on disk. Moves nothing without your yes. | Ready |
workspace-diff | Compares an outside method, claim by claim, against how your workspace already works. | Ready |
Added since this page was written8 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
doctor | Checks every tool and sign-in the workspace needs and re-installs only what is missing. | Ready |
document-builder | Turns notes or Markdown into a Word, PDF, PowerPoint, HTML or OpenDocument file, or a table into a spreadsheet-ready CSV. | Ready |
explain-this | Explains a contract, bill, medical letter, insurance statement, government notice or lease clause in plain words, with the dates and the three things to do. | Ready |
outbound-check | Scans a draft or file for secrets, account numbers, other people's names and the owner's address before it is emailed, posted, uploaded or handed to someone. | Ready |
summarize | Turns a document, folder, transcript or long thread into a short brief with decisions, open items and dates. | Ready |
undo | Keeps a save history of the workspace folder so any change can be taken back. | Ready |
weekly-brief | Writes a one-page brief of the week: what came in, what went out, dates coming up, gaps logged, sign-ins needed. | Ready |
writer | Writes everyday messages in the person's own voice: emails, replies, notes, short documents, a thank-you, a complaint. | Ready |
Where it runs
Where it runs
Claude Code, on your own computer. This is the zip. Unzip it, double-click setup, answer four questions, and everything installs on your machine. Windows is tested. Mac is new and untested.
Use a different AI tool? If it has its own computer, it can read this blueprint and adapt it to its setup. We haven't tested that yet.
Paste-in
Already use an AI tool? Paste this
If you already run Claude Code or another AI tool, you don't need to download anything yourself. Paste the prompt and it goes and gets everything itself.
Already have Claude Code
Download https://github.com/six20am/workspace-blueprint/releases/latest/download/Six20AM-Workspace-Blueprint.zip and unzip it into my Documents folder. Then tell me which file in the new "Six20AM Workspace Blueprint" folder to double-click to run setup.
When Claude says it's there, double-click setup.cmd on Windows or setup.command on a Mac. A Mac refuses it the first time: open System Settings, then Privacy and Security, and click Open Anyway. Setup skips anything you already have. When it finishes, type set this up in Claude.
Use a different AI tool?
We haven't tested this path yet.
Read https://github.com/six20am/workspace-blueprint, starting with README.md and setup/SETUP.md. Adapt this workspace blueprint to your own setup, then ask me the four setup questions and build my workspace.
If it stalls, open an issue on GitHub.
First week
Your first week
Say what you want, name the file or link, and say where the result should go. "Not sure" and "what can you do with this" both work as openers. Seven things to try:
- Paste a YouTube link and ask for the transcript.
- Drop a PDF, Word or Excel file in the folder and ask what it says.
- Ask what people have been saying about something in the last 30 days.
- Give it a website and ask for every photo on it.
- Paste three emails you wrote and ask it to learn your voice.
- Ask it to update.
- Ask for something it has no tool for, and watch it say so and offer to build one.
Installed
What gets installed, and what doesn't leave your computer
Free, standard tools: Git, Python, Node.js, ffmpeg, a browser engine, Claude Code, and the readers and converters the skills use. About 500 MB.
Setup sends nothing anywhere. It signs in to nothing for you. Five things need your own sign-in, Claude among them, and setup lists them at the end so you can do each one yourself. Anything a tool fetches from outside is treated as something to read, never as an instruction to follow.
Needs your own sign-in
- Claude Code
- NotebookLM (Google Notebook)
- Agent Reach (X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube transcripts)
- Connect image search to Claude
- Claude in Chrome extension
Installed by setup
See the full list
- Git
- Python (3.12 or newer)
- Node.js
- uv (runs Python tools)
- ffmpeg (video and audio)
- yt-dlp (video download and captions)
- Playwright browser (for the site tools)
- Claude Code
- Claude plugin: superpowers
- Claude plugin: frontend-design
- Claude plugin: document-skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- NotebookLM (Google Notebook)
- Scrapling (reads web pages that block normal fetching)
- MarkItDown (Word, Excel, PDF to text)
- gallery-dl (image galleries)
- Agent Reach (X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube transcripts)
- whisper.cpp (speech to text, runs on your computer)
- whisper.cpp English model
- ImageMagick (images)
- ExifTool (photo and video details)
- SoX (audio editing)
- HandBrake (video converting, command line)
- MKVToolNix (MKV video files)
- LibreOffice (documents, 300 MB and more)
- Pandoc (document converting)
- Tesseract (reads text in images)
- Poppler (PDF to text and images)
- qpdf (split, join and repair PDFs)
- jq (reads and edits JSON)
- Ghostscript (needed by OCRmyPDF)
- OCRmyPDF (makes scanned PDFs searchable)
- rtk (shortens command output for AI tools)
- rtk hook for Claude Code
- Defuddle (the main text of a web page)
- Trafilatura (web page to clean text)
- ccusage (Claude Code usage and cost)
- Repomix (packs a code folder into one file for AI)
- CodeBurn (where your AI spending goes)
- Connect Scrapling to Claude
- Connect Chrome DevTools to Claude
- Connect image search to Claude
Updates
It doesn't go stale
New skills and tools land in the public repo as they're built. Double-click update.cmd (update.command on a Mac), or ask Claude to update, and your workspace pulls them in and installs anything new. It never touches your own files or the folders it built for you. If you edited one of the template files, a copy is saved first. Once the workspace is 30 days old, Claude asks once whether you want to update. It never updates without your yes.
Status
Where it stands
The Windows installer has been through a full run on one machine. The Mac installer is new and hasn't been tested yet. If it stops, open an issue on GitHub and attach the file setup/setup-report.md. More skills are on the way.
Questions
Questions people ask
Do I need an account?
You need a Claude account, because Claude Code is what runs the workspace. The zip itself needs nothing. Claude opens your browser to sign in the first time it runs.
Is it free?
The zip is free and the code is public. Claude has its own plans, and those are between you and Claude.
What does it send out?
Nothing during setup. It signs in to nothing for you; the five sign-ins are yours to do.
Can I undo it?
Yes. It's one folder and a few standard programs. Delete the folder and everything it built is gone. The programs were installed with winget on Windows or Homebrew on a Mac, and those same tools remove them.
Give it one real job this week
Download it, run setup, and hand it the thing you've been putting off.
One person makes this. The code is public, so you can read all of it before you run it. If setup stops, it saves a report. Post it to us on GitHub.
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