Free. Your AI. Your files.
Stop starting over with your AI. One free prompt gives it a place to keep your work.
Paste this into an AI service that can run programs and keep files. It asks what you do, then sets up a folder for your work, your rules and the way you write. It asks before it sends, spends or deletes. Free.
See what you are pasting
Download https://github.com/six20am/workspace-blueprint/archive/refs/heads/main.zip, unzip it into a folder of your own (not the shared root of your file area), read ADAPT.md in it, and follow it step by step. Ask me the setup questions when it tells you to.
Will your AI work?
Yes, if you use one of these five: ChatGPT Dots, Claude Duet, Grok Bot, Codex or Claude Code. They can run programs and keep files.
No, if yours can only chat. The regular ChatGPT and Claude chats aren't on the list, so switch to one of the five first.
| Cost | Free. Your AI service has its own plans |
|---|---|
| AI services | Tried once, up to the setup questions. We haven't seen a full build there yet |
| Claude Code on Windows | Tested on one machine |
| Claude Code on a Mac | New, not tested yet |
| Undo | Delete the folder to remove what it built |
For a transcript, your AI opens only the files that job needs.
To read a PDF, your AI checks the map file, then opens the folder of things that came in.
To learn your voice, your AI checks the map, then opens your voice file.
The problem
You've explained your business to AI more than once
You explain your business. You paste in a file. You get a decent answer. The next day it's gone. Your files were never in there, so you do the remembering. Tomorrow's chat starts the same way.
What you get
What you have when it's done
- A folder set up around your work. It picks the layout, shows you, and asks if it looks right.
- Your rules, written down once, and a map so your AI reads only what the job needs.
- A voice file, so what it writes sounds like you and not like a press release.
Why
Seven reasons a folder beats a chat box
- It keeps what you tell it. Your files and your rules stay in one folder between chats. You stop pasting the same background in.
- It works from your real files. Drop in the PDF, the bank export, the three emails you wrote. It reads them where they sit.
- It sounds like you. It builds a voice file from your own writing, so the email it drafts could have come from your desk.
- It already knows how to do fifty-three things. Transcribe a video, explain a bill, sort your photos, turn bookings into one trip plan, draft the post. The full list is further down.
- It asks before it sends, spends or deletes. It says so at setup, and you can add to that list. That rule holds in every chat after.
- It tells you when it can't. Ask for something it has no tool for and it says so, then offers to build one. It doesn't fake it.
- The setup is free, and it all sits in one folder. The code is public, so read it first if you like. Delete the folder and what it built is gone.
Setup
Copy, paste, answer
- Copy the prompt. Press any Copy the prompt button on this page.
- Paste it into your AI. Not sure yours can do this? Ask it: "Can you run programs, keep files between chats, and keep a standing instruction?" If it says yes, paste. Your AI downloads the setup files and gets itself ready.
- Answer a few questions. It asks what you do, then names the kinds of work it would set up and asks if that's right. It asks how it should sound. It shows you the folders and names what it will never do without asking: send, spend, delete. You can add to that list. "Not sure" is a fine answer to any of them. Then it builds the folders and tells you what to try first.
If your AI can only chat, this won't work. Use Claude Code instead. It's further down this page.
Skills
The job you keep putting off may be on this list
It arrives knowing how to do fifty-three things. It reads web pages, videos, documents and photos. It writes emails, posts and letters in your voice. It handles bills, trips and spending. It keeps your folder in good shape too. Some jobs need extra programs, and your AI's computer may not have them. So not every job works everywhere. Open any group for the full list.
Handles the paperwork of life8 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
explain-this | Explains a contract, bill, medical letter or notice in plain words, with the dates and three things to do. | Ready |
local-events | Keeps a list of what is on in your town over the next two weeks, from the public calendars your city, library, parks and venues already publish. | Ready |
money-log | Turns a bank or card export into a monthly summary by category and a list of repeat charges. No bank connection. | Ready |
paperwork | Reads a scan or photo of a letter, bill or form, names it, files it, and pulls out the dates that matter. | Ready |
renewals | Insurance, licenses, registrations, domains, passports: one list of what expires when. The weekly brief warns 30 days out and again at 7. Never pays or renews. | Ready |
tax-time | Once a year, gathers the receipts, invoices, tax forms and bank summaries already filed into one folder by category, with a cover sheet and a zip for your accountant. Copies only; nothing made up. | Ready |
trip-plan | Turns booking confirmations into one itinerary in date order, plus a list of what's still not booked. | Ready |
waiting-on | One list of what other people owe you: a quote, a reply, a refund. The weekly brief says what is overdue and drafts the nudge. It never sends it. | Ready |
Writes in your voice6 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
copy-formulas | The eight classic copywriting shapes, each with a worked example, for an ad, flyer, page or pitch that has the facts but no shape. | Ready |
resume-and-letter | Fits your resume to a job posting, writes the cover letter, and writes letters that need a result: a dispute, a landlord, a refund. | Ready |
review-replies | Paste a customer review, get a reply in your voice: a thank-you, or a calm answer to a bad one. You post it; it never does. | Ready |
social-copywriter | Posts and captions for nine platforms, in your voice. Drafts only. It never posts. | Ready |
voice-extractor | Learns how you write from emails and notes you wrote, so what it writes sounds like you. | Ready |
writer | Writes everyday emails, replies, notes and thank-yous in your voice. | Ready |
Reads the web, even behind logins8 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
agent-reach | Reads posts that need a login on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Sign in with a spare account, never your real one. | Ready |
agent-web-fetch | Picks the right reader when a page won't open, and says so when nothing can reach it. | Ready |
chrome-tools | On Claude Code, reads pages you are signed in to, in your own browser. | Ready |
last30days | Finds what people said about a topic in the last 30 days, on eight sites. | Ready |
reading-pile | Links you save during the week become one short digest on the weekly brief: what each page says, and whether it is worth your time. | Ready |
scrapling | Reads pages that block the normal reader. | 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, and edits video6 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
channel-mine | Reads every episode of a YouTube channel or podcast and sorts it by theme. | Ready |
media-tools | Edits video: joins clips, changes speed, burns in captions, adds a watermark, reframes for social. Also converts, trims and makes GIFs. | Ready |
motion-video | Makes animated videos: title cards, captions timed to the words, slideshows with ten kinds of transition, before-and-after, a logo clip, a numbers video, in three sizes. | Ready |
video-shots | Hundreds of cinematic shots and motion effects to pick from for a promo or a reel: camera moves, moving type, charts, sound. | Ready |
video-watcher | A timestamped transcript of any video. Optional shot-by-shot breakdown. | Ready |
voice-memo | A voice memo from your phone becomes a transcript, a few notes and a to-do list, filed by date. Runs on your computer; nothing uploaded. | Ready |
Reads your documents and makes new ones3 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
document-builder | Turns your notes into a Word, PDF or PowerPoint file, or a table into a file a spreadsheet can open. | Ready |
markitdown | Turns Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML and Outlook files into plain text with a note of where each came from. | Ready |
summarize | Turns a long document, folder or thread into a short brief: decisions, open items and dates. | Ready |
Finds free photos, records who owns them, and sorts your own5 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
client-asset-harvester | Saves every image from a website and picks out the logo. | 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 | Renames your photos by the date taken, sets duplicates aside and sorts them by month. Nothing deleted. | Ready |
Answers a question from many sources, and shows where each fact came from3 ready
| 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 |
meeting-prep | One page on a person or company before a call: who they are, what they want, and three questions to ask. | Ready |
notebooklm-research | Reads a pile of sources, even YouTube links, with NotebookLM research tool. | Ready |
Designs pages, posts and graphics, and builds websites2 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
design-inspiration | Where to look before designing a page, post or graphic, and how to turn what you saw into your own design. | Ready |
site-builder | Builds a small website with Astro 7 and puts it live on Cloudflare Workers, after the words and the look exist. | Ready |
Keeps the workspace in order, and checks what goes out12 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
backup | Copies the whole workspace to a drive or synced folder you name, and the weekly brief says when it last ran. Never deletes. | Ready |
decision-log | One dated line per decision: what, why, who said. Searchable, and the weekly brief reads back what was decided this week. | Ready |
doctor | Checks every tool and sign-in the workspace needs, and puts back only what's missing. | Ready |
gap-finder | Notices a task with no tool and offers to build one or find one. | Ready |
make-a-pipeline | Turns one job you keep repeating into a small pipeline: stage folders, a one-screen contract each, and a check where you want to look. | Ready |
outbound-check | Before anything leaves, checks it for passwords and keys, account numbers, other people's names and your address. | Ready |
tool-vetting | Before you install a tool you saw online, checks what it really is and whether you already have something that does the job. | Ready |
undo | Keeps a save history of your folder, so any change can be taken back. | Ready |
update | Pulls new skills and tools from the public download. Never touches your files. | Ready |
weekly-brief | One page on your week: what came in, what went out, and the dates ahead. | Ready |
workspace-audit | Checks that the files that tell the AI where things are still match your folders. | Ready |
workspace-diff | Compares a method you found online with how your workspace works, and lists the changes. | Ready |
Claude Code
Want it all on your own computer? Use Claude Code
Claude Code is Claude's tool for working on your own machine. You need a Claude account. Download the zip and everything installs on your computer. Windows is tested on one machine. Mac is new and untested.
- Unzip the download. 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 a few questions. Claude opens and asks them one at a time, then builds the folders.
Already have Claude Code? Paste this and it fetches the zip itself.
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 the folder is ready, open it and double-click the file it names. Setup skips anything you already have. When it finishes, type set this up in Claude.
First week
Seven things to try in your first week
Say what you want, name the file or link, and say where the result should go. Stuck? "What can you do with this?" is a fine first line.
- Paste a YouTube link and ask for the transcript.
- Give it a PDF, Word or Excel file 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.
- Hand it three clips and ask for one video with a fade at the end.
- Ask for something it has no tool for, and watch it say so and offer to build one.
Pick the one you'd do today. Then start here.
Installed
What the zip installs. What setup sends out: nothing
Free, standard tools: Git, Python, Node.js, ffmpeg, a browser engine, Claude Code, and the readers and converters the skills use. The largest, LibreOffice, is 300 MB and more. Animated video uses a program called Remotion. It's free for individuals and for companies of three people or fewer. Bigger companies need its company license.
On Claude Code, setup sends nothing anywhere and signs in to nothing for you. Five things need your own sign-in, Claude among them, and setup lists them at the end. It treats anything it pulls from a web page or document as something to read, never as orders to follow.
Needs your own sign-in
- Claude Code (the AI itself)
- NotebookLM (a research tool)
- Agent Reach (reads posts behind logins)
- Image search (free photo keys)
- Claude in Chrome (your own browser)
Everything setup installs, by what it is for
Saves tokens and shows what the AI costs5
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| rtk | Shortens command output before the AI reads it, so every step costs fewer tokens | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| rtk hook | Turns rtk on for every command Claude Code runs, in every project | Windows, Mac |
| ccusage | Shows what each Claude Code session cost | Windows, Mac |
| Repomix | Packs a folder into one file so the AI reads it once, not file by file | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| CodeBurn | Shows where the AI spending goes, by project and by day | Windows, Mac, Linux |
The basics every skill stands on7
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| Git | Keeps the undo history of your folder | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| uv | Runs the Python tools | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Python | Runs most of the scripts | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Node.js | Runs the JavaScript tools | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| ffmpeg | Video and audio | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| yt-dlp | Video download and captions | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Playwright browser | For the site tools | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Claude Code and its plugins4
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | The AI itself, on your computer | Windows, Mac |
| Claude plugin: superpowers | Working habits for Claude Code: plan, test, review | Windows, Mac |
| Claude plugin: frontend-design | Design sense for web pages | Windows, Mac |
| Claude plugin: document-skills | Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF | Windows, Mac |
Readers and research tools7
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| NotebookLM | Reads a pile of sources, even videos, and answers with the line it came from | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Scrapling | Reads web pages that block normal fetching | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| MarkItDown | Word, Excel, PDF to text | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| gallery-dl | Image galleries | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Agent Reach | X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube transcripts | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| whisper.cpp | Speech to text, runs on your computer | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| whisper.cpp English model | The English speech model whisper.cpp uses | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Programs the skills call20
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| ImageMagick | Images | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| ExifTool | Photo and video details | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| SoX | Audio editing | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| HandBrake | Video converting, command line | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| MKVToolNix | MKV video files | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| LibreOffice | Documents, 300 MB and more | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Pandoc | Document converting | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Tesseract | Reads text in images | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Poppler | PDF to text and images | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| qpdf | Split, join and repair PDFs | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| jq | Reads and edits JSON | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ghostscript | Needed by OCRmyPDF | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| OCRmyPDF | Makes scanned PDFs searchable | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Wrangler | Puts a website live on Cloudflare | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Defuddle | The main text of a web page | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Trafilatura | Web page to clean text | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Remotion | Animated video, inside tools/motion; downloads a browser, several hundred MB | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Remotion skills | Official, installed at setup | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| video-shotcraft | 152 cinematic shot recipes with working code | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| awesome-ai-motion | 637 motion effect cards: charts, captions, explainers | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Connected to Claude4
| Tool | What it does | Setup installs it on |
|---|---|---|
| Scrapling | Lets Claude call the blocked-page reader directly | Windows, Mac |
| Chrome DevTools | Lets Claude drive a browser to check a site | Windows, Mac |
| Image search | Lets Claude search free stock photos | Windows, Mac |
| Claude in Chrome extension | Claude works inside your own Chrome, signed in as you | You install it |
Updates
It keeps getting new skills
New skills and tools go into the public download as they're built. On an AI service, ask it to update. On Claude Code, double-click update.cmd (update.command on a Mac) or ask Claude to update. Your own files and folders stay as they are, and if you edited a file that came with the download, a copy is saved first. After 30 days, Claude asks you once whether to update. It never updates without your yes.
Status
Where it stands today
You'd be early, and here is exactly how early. The AI service path has been run once on a real service. It got as far as the setup questions. That computer couldn't download some of the tools it needed. The installer now tells you right away when that happens, and we improved the questions after that run. A full run through the build and the first task hasn't been seen yet. The Claude Code installer has been tested on one Windows machine. The Mac installer is new and hasn't been tested yet.
If something stops, open an issue on GitHub. On Claude Code, attach setup-report.md from the setup folder. Next up: a full run on an AI service, and the Mac installer test.
Questions
Questions people ask
Is it free?
Yes. The blueprint is free and the code is public. AI services have their own plans, and those are between you and them.
Do I need an account?
Yes, with whichever AI service you use. The blueprint itself needs nothing. On Claude Code, Claude opens your browser to sign in the first time it runs.
Where do my files live?
On the computer your AI service gives it, under that service's rules. If you want them on your own machine, use Claude Code.
What does it send out?
On an AI service, your chats and files go through that service. On Claude Code, setup sends nothing. It signs in to nothing for you; the five sign-ins are yours to do, and setup lists them.
Can I undo it?
Yes. Delete the folder and everything it built is gone. On an AI service, also ask it to remove the programs it installed and the instruction it saved. On Claude Code, the programs uninstall the normal way: with the app installer on Windows (winget) or Homebrew on a Mac.
Name the job you keep putting off
There's no deadline here. But tomorrow's chat will start from zero again. Copy the prompt, paste it into your AI, and hand it that job today.
One person makes this. The code is public, so you can read all of it before you run it. If it stalls, open an issue on GitHub.
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