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The
Handoff.
You read the story. This is the record itself —
and the sessions it takes to build your own.
You Read About
the Garage.
A few of you read that story and said the same thing back, in different words: send me what you built. Not the metaphor. The actual system.
Fair. That's what this page is.
This isn't a program you subscribe to. It's a kit — the same architecture from the story, handed to you to build on your own machine, with your own Claude, holding your own data. No login of mine. No server of mine. Nothing running anywhere except your computer and your Claude account.
It's built as four sessions. About two hours total, split however you want. Stop after any one and everything you've built so far keeps working — nothing breaks if you take a week off between Session 2 and Session 3.
Four Things.
That's the Whole List.
No SaaS to sign up for, no team plan, no credit card beyond what you probably already have. Grab these now so Session 1 doesn't stall:
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code (get Node from nodejs.org first if you need it), then run claude once to sign in.Total running cost: whatever you already pay Claude. Everything else here is free.
Open Terminal.
Paste One Line.
Start Claude Code, and hand it this:
That's the whole "install" step. No git commands, no GitHub login — Claude does the cloning itself. It then reads the build protocol and starts interviewing you: goal, training history, honest current baseline, health flags, your real schedule, gym or garage, sleep pattern.
You walk out with PROGRAM.md — an 8-week plan built around your actual numbers, not a template with your name pasted on top.
Put It
In Your Pocket.
This is the session that turns a terminal program into something that texts you back.
- → Open Telegram, search @BotFather
-
→
/newbot— name it whatever you want, give it a username ending in "bot" - → Copy the token BotFather gives you back to Claude
- → Claude locks the bot to your Telegram ID and installs it as a background service
The moment this becomes real: text your bot "what's my session tomorrow?" and get your own program back, on your phone. In the garage story, that's when the AI stopped being a chatbot. Same moment, your machine.
Now the Agent
Starts the Conversation.
Up to this point, it's only ever answered you. This session installs the three jobs that make it initiate:
Checkpoint: all three jobs fire on demand, and a real weekly report lands in your inbox. This is the session where it stops being a chatbot you visit and starts being a system that watches.
Everything After
That Is Yours.
Once the base is running, extend it however you actually want — none of it required:
- → Google Calendar — agent proposes gym blocks in your real open windows
- → Notion mirror — only worth it if you already live in Notion
- → Apple Health export — richer trend data: steps, sleep, resting heart rate
- → Teach it one new thing yourself, live — no one's permission required
That last one is the actual point of handing you a kit instead of a login: you can open CLAUDE.md and add a capability whenever you want. It's yours to extend, not ours to gate.
The Griot
Keeps the Lineage.
In the original story, the system that caught what my calendar was hiding was mine alone. This page is how it stops being just mine.
You are already keeping a record — your arteries keep it, your bloodwork keeps it, your calendar keeps it in the shape of everything it never made room for. The only question was ever whether the record had a reader. Now yours can.
Questions, or a stumble during setup — text me, or waziri@harlemlabs.com.