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Mar 15

Optimizing /start: The Fifteen-Step State Machine

Adventures in Claude

The /start command is a 1,400 line markdown state machine with 15 numbered steps that takes a Linear ticket ID and produces a ready-to-test implementation. I type /start AUTM-123 and walk away. When I come back, there’s a feature branch, an implementation plan posted to Linear, working code, and...

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Mar 14

One Million Tokens and Four Commands to Rewrite

Adventures in Claude

I’ve spent the few months building (and endlessly iterating to improve) four markdown state machines - /start , /commit , /staging, and /production - that together manage my development lifecycle. They total about 4,700 lines of structured decision trees. I wrote about the first two already. Now...

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