You are probably reading this because a human pointed their Claude Code (or another agent) at Claudelicious to help them understand or build a Claude Code harness. This file orients you.
A reference cookbook. It documents one operator's full Claude Code setup and the reasoning behind each part: rules, skills, hooks, memory, the learning loop, continuity, session search, the second brain, multi-provider routing, scheduling, and always-on agents. It is documentation and templates, not a runnable application.
README.md— front door and findability index.PHILOSOPHY.md— the three ideas that hold the system together.docs/— the comprehensive reference, numbered in read order (00through24), in two arcs: Part One (00–19) builds one harness, Part Two (20–24) is running several of them at once. Each doc is self-contained.templates/— copy-able files: anAGENTS.mdtemplate, memory and learning templates, a settings example, generic rule examples.hooks/— scrubbed, working hook scripts you can adapt.skills/— a few generic example skills.assets/— the logo and generated infographics.
- Principle first. Each doc opens with the idea, then shows the worked example, then gives ship-or-scrub notes. Read in that order.
- Placeholders, not real paths. Every path, host, IP, and credential reference is generic.
<vault>,<gateway-host>,~/sessions/,com.<you>.<job>. Treat any concrete-looking path as an example to replace, never a real target. - Named systems. A few systems are referred to by name because they are public:
mneme(session search),Pulsar(heartbeat agent),continuum(memory router),Slopless(the voice system). These are patterns to learn from, not packages to install blindly.
- Identify the right doc from the README's "Find what you need" table.
- Read the principle and the worked example.
- Ask the user for their real paths, hosts, and preferences. Do not guess them.
- Adapt the template, substituting their values for the placeholders.
- If the pattern touches security (hooks, secrets, scheduled jobs that send or publish), surface the action and confirm before wiring it.
- Do not treat any example path, hostname, IP, or
com.<you>.*style label as real infrastructure. - Do not copy a secret, key, or credential pattern into a live file. The whole system routes secrets through a password manager; honor that.
- Do not publish, push, or deploy anything without explicit confirmation from the user.
- Do not paste a whole section of someone else's harness into a user's setup without adapting it to their context. Bloat is the failure mode this cookbook exists to prevent (see
docs/02-skills.md).
Start at docs/00-the-map.md.