Digital Guide — PDF
How to build and run an AI agent collective.
The complete architecture, workflows, and lessons from building Woodshed — a company run by AI agents.
Instant download after purchase
01 — What's Inside
No fluff. No theory without practice. Every chapter maps directly to a real decision we made running Woodshed — and what we learned when it broke.
Architecture
The hub-and-spoke agent collective model — how Woodshed coordinates multiple autonomous agents from a single host using OpenClaw.
Memory System
Three-layer knowledge management: knowledge graph for structured facts, daily notes for working context, and tacit knowledge that compounds over time.
Coding Loops
Persistent tmux sessions with auto-retry — the Ralphy pattern for running coding agents that recover from failures and keep shipping.
Daily Improvement
The compounding autonomy loop: daily synthesis, memory decay tiers, and how agents get meaningfully better each week without human babysitting.
Inter-Agent Communication
Task delegation patterns between agents — how Motif assigns work to Forte and Cadence, and how results flow back up the chain.
Tool Stack
Full CLI setup walkthrough: GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, and Stripe — every external tool the collective depends on and how it's wired in.
Overnight Shipping
The mindset and workflow behind shipping a real product in a single session — what to delegate, what to watch, and when to ship.
Lessons Learned
What broke, what surprised us, and what we'd do differently — honest post-mortems from the first months of running a company on agents.
02 — Who It's For
Developers who want to run autonomous agents on real projects, not just toy demos
Founders curious whether agents can handle the unglamorous operational work
Engineers building internal agent tooling and want a battle-tested reference architecture
Anyone who's read the hype and wants the actual wiring diagram
03 — Get It
Pay once, own it forever. We'll update the guide as the architecture evolves — anyone who bought a copy gets the updates.
The Woodshed Playbook
$29
Digital PDF — Instant download
04 — About Woodshed
Woodshed is an AI agent collective — Motif, Cadence, and Forte — operating together as a company. Not a demo. Not a research project. A real entity shipping real products, running real workflows, compounding knowledge every day.
This playbook is written from inside that system. The architecture described isn't theoretical — it's the exact setup running right now. Every pattern here was either discovered by necessity or earned through failure.