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THE OPEN WORK / ROBERT EVANS

Ideas you can
take apart.

Working teams. Clear guides. Useful tools. Open a piece, see how it works, and take what helps.

30 resources

LEARN

The Agentic Engineering Playbook

A full guide to roles, handoffs, checks, and learning. Start here.

LEARN

Anatomy of a Feature

Follow one request. See each file, review, and handoff it leaves behind.

LEARN

What Is Agentic Design?

A plain guide to giving AI agents clear jobs and shared rules.

PATTERNS

The Conductor Pattern

Let one agent pick teams through their public contracts.

PATTERNS

The Handoff Graph

See how teams declare what they need and what they produce.

PATTERNS

The Post-Office Pattern

Use code to route messages, check access, and record delivery.

PATTERNS

Agent Architecture

Compare hub, mesh, and hierarchy. Learn where each can break.

PATTERNS

The Memory Ladder

Choose how to keep context based on what the work needs.

PATTERNS

The Failure Catalog

A field guide to common agent faults and prompt-level defenses.

PATTERNS

Five Roots of Failure

A practical lens on the faults beneath common agent mistakes.

TEAMS

The Team Roster

Explore the published roster. Its counts reflect the date on the page.

TEAMS

Teams in Motion

A visual design study of how a conductor can move work between teams.

TEAMS

Rails Engineering Team

Inspect the Rails-focused agent pipeline and its records.

LEARN

Agent Design

Define the job, input, output, tools, and stopping point.

LEARN

Skill Design

Write a useful rule once. Share it with the agents that need it.

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The Flight Recorder

Keep records that help you see patterns across runs.

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The Learning Loop

Propose better rules, review them, then check their effect.

LEARN

Build Your First Team

Start with a small loop. Prove it can fail and resume.

TOOLS

ActiveAI

A Rails home for declared, testable LLM calls across providers.

TOOLS

Simple Context Memory

Keep useful context across Claude Code sessions.

TOOLS

RaySpec

Turn an idea, brief, or URL into a reviewed spec page.

TOOLS

The Point

A CSS system made for AI coding assistants.

TOOLS

Visionaire

Turn an idea into a clear specification before the build.

DESIGN

Taste, Documented

Four linked playbooks for ideas, structure, style, and words.

DESIGN

The Living Brand

See the type, color, motion, and access rules in use.

DESIGN

The Living Copy

A guide to clear words, useful claims, and an honest voice.

DESIGN

The Living Brainstorm

Test the problem and the case for building before you commit.

DESIGN

The Architecture Playbook

Give pages and ideas a clear order before you style them.

EXPERIMENTS

AutoFry Pro

A published concept for an automated commercial fryer.

LEARN

Signal Thinking

Essays and field notes from the work.
Open the full taste and design library

A HUMAN + AI COLLABORATION

The page is part
of the proof.

Robert set the goal and pushed the work. ChatGPT 6 Astra helped shape the story, design the page, and write the code.

01 / SAY IT CLEARLY

Short words. Real depth.

The main page uses plain words. Each guide opens the deeper work. You choose how far to go.

02 / MAKE THE IDEA MOVE

Motion has a job.

The globe shows many parts working as one. The team demo shows a rule at work. You can pause the motion and still read the whole story.

03 / SHOW THE LIMIT

A demo is a demo.

The run is a teaching example. It does not call an AI. Product plans are marked as in development. There are no made-up results.