Free. Your AI. Your files.
One prompt, and your AI works out of your files, not a chat box
Paste this into an AI service where the AI can run programs and keep files. It builds a folder for your work, follows your rules, and writes the way you do. Free.
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 four questions when it tells you to.
| AI services | New, not tested yet |
|---|---|
| Claude Code on Windows | Tested on one machine |
| Claude Code on a Mac | New, not tested yet |
| Cost | Free. Your AI service has its own plans |
| 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, then looks in the intake folder.
To learn your voice, your AI checks the map, then opens your voice file.
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
- Copy the prompt. It's at the top of this page.
- Paste it into your AI. Use a service where the AI can run programs, keep files between chats, and keep a standing instruction. It downloads this blueprint and sets it up for itself.
- Answer four questions. It 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 what to try first.
If your AI can only chat, this won't work. Use Claude Code instead.
Skills
What it can do on day one
It arrives knowing how to do thirty-eight things. It reads web pages, videos, documents and photos, and answers a question from many sources. It writes emails, posts and letters in your voice. It handles everyday jobs like bills, trips and spending. And it looks after the workspace itself. How many work on day one depends on what your AI's computer can run. Each group opens to the full list.
Reads the web, even behind logins7 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 |
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 video3 ready, 1 coming
| 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 |
video-watcher | A timestamped transcript of any video. Optional shot-by-shot breakdown. | Ready |
motion-video | Makes animated videos: title cards, captions timed to the words, slideshows, before-and-after, a logo clip, a numbers video, in three sizes. | Coming |
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 |
Writes in your voice4 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
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 |
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 |
Handles the paperwork of life4 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 |
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 |
trip-plan | Turns booking confirmations into one itinerary in date order, plus a list of what's still not booked. | Ready |
Keeps the workspace in order, and checks what goes out9 ready
| Skill | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
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 |
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
Or run it on your own computer with Claude Code
Claude Code is Claude's tool for working on your own machine. Download the zip and everything installs on your computer. Windows is tested. 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 four 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
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.
- 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.
Installed
What the zip installs, 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. The largest, LibreOffice, is 300 MB and more. Animated video, which is coming, will use Remotion, which is free for individuals and 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. Anything it fetches from the web or a document is treated as reading material, never as orders.
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)
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)
- PDF engine, used by the scan reader
- OCRmyPDF (makes scanned PDFs searchable)
- Command-output trimmer
- Command-output trimmer, hooked into Claude Code
- Web page cleaner
- Web page cleaner (Python)
- Shows what Claude Code sessions cost
- Packs a folder into one file for an AI to read
- Shows where AI usage goes
- Scrapling
- Chrome DevTools
- Image search
Updates
It doesn't go stale
New skills and tools are added to the public download as they're built. On an AI service, ask it to download the blueprint again and add what's new. On Claude Code, 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 files that came with the download, 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 AI service path is new and hasn't been run on a real service 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 the setup report, the file named setup-report.md in the setup folder. Next up: the first run on an AI service, and the Mac installer test.
Questions
Questions people ask
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.
Is it free?
The blueprint is free and the code is public. AI services have their own plans, and those are between you and them.
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 standing rule it saved and the programs it installed. On Claude Code, the programs uninstall the normal way: with the app installer on Windows (winget) or Homebrew on a Mac.
Give it one real job this week
Copy the prompt, paste it in, 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 it stalls, tell us on GitHub.
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