The Hook Cookbook
Every lifecycle event. Real code for each. Copy, paste, stop your agent from pushing to main.
Blog
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03 Mark — The IT Bypass
A bowling chain co-owner who never wrote a line of code. His IT department moves slow. His systems look like 2005. He built an inventory form in 30 minutes.
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04 Day One
Today we ship the first version of SkillCanvas. Not because it's finished. Because every day someone else hits the same wall we did.
guides
05 Hire Yourself. Then Fire Yourself.
Skills let you clone your expertise into a reusable artifact. But the clone is a black box. You automated yourself — and now you're trapped maintaining something you can't debug.
guides
06 The Moment Nobody Noticed
While everyone was tired of AI hype, Anthropic shipped something that changes how work gets automated. A markdown file now does what used to take months of code.
guides
07 Programming in Human
We've been promised natural language programming for 70 years. COBOL was 'English-like.' AppleScript was 'readable.' All failed. Skills actually work. Here's why.
stories
08 Jake — The $27 Novel
Automated visual novel production. One skill. 500 lines. Five stages. $27 cost. ROI around 200x.
stories
09 The Salah Problem
24 parallel AI agents analyzing Fantasy Premier League data. 19 out of 21 green arrows. Then the xG analyzer started recommending a player who wasn't even playing.
stories
Tyler — The Hostage Situation
A 6-stage writing pipeline that finally works. Time per post: 10 minutes. Quality: 8/10. But Tyler won't touch it. The skill isn't serving him anymore — he's serving the skill.