OPERATOR'S AGENT — HEALTH EDITION v1.0
reading lineage... cut from GRIOT
loading START.md... 6 phases found
checking prerequisites... 4 required
SYSTEM READY
WAZIRIGARUBA.COM · THE HANDOFF
KIT · OPERATOR'S AGENT — HEALTH
SOURCE · CUT FROM GRIOT
STATUS · READY TO BUILD
Waziri Garuba · Field Guide

The
Handoff.

You read the story. This is the record itself —
and the sessions it takes to build your own.

Scroll to start building
Before Act I

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.

"A griot keeps the lineage and passes the story down." That's this page.

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.

Before You Start

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:

01 · Hardware
A Mac that's on most of the day
The agent lives on it. Check-ins and nudges only fire while it's awake — a sleeping Mac skips a beat, it never loses data.
02 · The Brain
Claude Code + a Claude subscription
Pro ($20/mo) is enough. Not installed? In Terminal: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code (get Node from nodejs.org first if you need it), then run claude once to sign in.
Get Claude → Get Node →
03 · The Phone Line
Telegram (free)
This becomes how you text your agent — from your desk, from the gym floor, wherever. Set up in Session 2.
Get Telegram →
04 · The Reports
Gmail, with 2-Step Verification on
Powers the Sunday progress email. You'll generate an "app password" for it — don't do this until Session 3 asks for it.
App Passwords →

Total running cost: whatever you already pay Claude. Everything else here is free.

Act I
Session 1
~45 min
Solo, at your desk

Open Terminal.
Paste One Line.

Start Claude Code, and hand it this:

$ claude
> Clone https://github.com/WaziriG/operator-agent-health,
  read START.md, and follow it.

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.

Support
Answer the health-flags and screening questions straight, even the uncomfortable ones. That's the same list that caught my untreated TSH and a PSA test I'd never had — the whole point of Act I is finding what you'd rather not look at.

You walk out with PROGRAM.md — an 8-week plan built around your actual numbers, not a template with your name pasted on top.

Act II
Session 2
~30–45 min
Desk + phone in hand

Put It
In Your Pocket.

This is the session that turns a terminal program into something that texts you back.

Support
If it fails to start with a "certificate verify failed" error, that's a known macOS issue — the kit already carries the two-command fix, so let Claude apply it rather than improvising. And once it's running: the bot only answers to your Telegram ID, but it can run things on your machine. Treat it like an open terminal — lock your phone like you mean it.

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.

Act III
Session 3
~30 min
Desk

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:

Morning Check-In
Training-day mornings
Timed off your sleep pattern from the Session 1 interview.
Gap Watch
Daily, at noon
Notices when you've gone quiet. At most one nudge a day, by design — not a nag.
Weekly Report
Sunday evening, to your inbox
Needs the Gmail app password from the "What You Need" section above.
Support
Test each job by firing it manually before you trust the schedule — the kit has a command for that built in. And the same sleep caveat from Session 1 applies here: the heartbeat only runs while the Mac is awake. Nothing is lost, it just waits.

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.

Act IV
Session 4
Optional
Pick à la carte

Everything After
That Is Yours.

Once the base is running, extend it however you actually want — none of it 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 Handoff

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.

"What gets recorded gets watched. What gets watched gets better."

Questions, or a stumble during setup — text me, or waziri@harlemlabs.com.

Waziri Garuba · The Handoff
KIT · Operator's Agent — Health · Status: Ready to Build