Work 08Agentic design, open source

Foreman

A build playbook that makes a coding agent do the drawing first: the interview, the decisions, the locked system and the brief, before any code.

Role
Solo build, open source.
When
2026
Foreman on a laptop: the home page
  • 8Gated steps, from orient to index
  • 13References, loaded when their step arrives
  • 0Scripts: Markdown only

The idea

Without a playbook, one message to a coding agent returns a finished page built on assumptions you never made. With Foreman, it answers with questions: what the site is for, who reads it, and what you already have.

Eight gated steps

Each of the eight steps has a gate it has to clear: orient, decide, lock the look, write the brief, build, verify, ship and index. No code is written until the brief is approved.

What is in it

It is all Markdown and templates. Nothing runs, so you can read every line before you use it. Thirteen references, six fillable assets and nine failure modes. It installs as a Claude Code plugin and an Agent Skill, and works with any coding agent that reads files. I released it after a cohort-wide session at KAUST.

Stack

Field
Agentic design, open source
Stack
  • Agentic Design
  • Claude Code Plugin
  • Agent Skill
  • Open Source
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