One prompt, and your AI works out of your files, not a chat box

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 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.

Why a folder beats a chat box

• It remembers. Your files, your rules and how you like things done live in one folder. The next chat picks up where the last one stopped.
• It works from your files, not from what you pasted. 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-two things. Transcribe a video, read a bill, sort your photos, plan a trip, write 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. The 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.
• It's free, and it's one folder. The code is public. Delete the folder and it's gone.

How it works

1. Copy the prompt. It's at the top of this page.
2. 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.
3. Answer a few questions. It asks what you do, names the kinds of work it would set up and checks them with you, and asks how it should sound. Then it shows you the folders, names the three things it will never do without asking (send, spend, delete), and asks what to add. "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.

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What it can do on day one

It arrives knowing how to do fifty-two 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.

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.

1. Unzip the download. Move the folder to Documents.
2. Run setup. Double-click setup.cmd on Windows or setup.command on 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.
3. Answer a few questions. Claude opens and asks them one at a time, then builds the folders.

Download the zip

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.

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:

1. Paste a YouTube link and ask for the transcript.
2. Give it a PDF, Word or Excel file and ask what it says.
3. Ask what people have been saying about something in the last 30 days.
4. Give it a website and ask for every photo on it.
5. Paste three emails you wrote and ask it to learn your voice.
6. Hand it three clips and ask for one video with a fade at the end.
7. Ask for something it has no tool for, and watch it say so and offer to build one.

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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 uses 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)

Everything setup installs, by what it is for

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.

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