A new "best" AI model shows up every few weeks. Last month it was one company, this month it's another, and they keep leapfrogging each other. That's great, except for one problem: everything you've taught your AI about you is stuck wherever you've been working. Switch to the new model and you start over from zero.
So I stopped letting my context live inside any one tool. I built a workspace I own, in plain files, that any AI can read. I just ran it for the first time on a clean machine that knew nothing about me, and filmed the whole thing start to finish. The video is the demo. This is the plain-language version of what it does and why it's shaped this way.
The one idea
Own your context in files you control. Not in a cloud you rent. Not buried in a log you'll never open again. Your knowledge, your project notes, the decisions you made and the reasons behind them, all of it lives on your own disk, in plain text any AI can read.
When the data is a file on your drive, no product update and no account lockout can take it from you. When it's in a format more than one tool understands, you're never married to a single company. That's the whole game.
One workshop, one locked drawer
You get a single workspace folder where everything useful lives, and a separate private folder right next to it that the assistant is told to never open. Your personal material stays private because you drew the line on purpose, not because you're hoping nobody looks.
Think of it as a workshop the assistant is welcome in, and a locked drawer it never touches. Worth being honest here: it's a rule, not a vault. You still own the outcome. But a clear rule the AI respects beats no rule at all. Don't be the person whining that the AI wiped something important when you never told it where the line was.
What you know, and what you make
Inside the workspace there's a clean split.
One side is what you know: your notes, organized around the parts of life and work you actually care about. The assistant keeps it tidy, links it together, and reads it before it answers questions about your world, so you stop re-explaining yourself every single session.
The other side is what you make: your real work, sorted by kind. Code in one home, video in another, writing and courses and products in a third. You only get the homes you use. Don't film? There's no empty video folder sitting around.
Every project remembers itself
Each project keeps a few small notes inside it: what it is, where it stands right now, and why the big calls were made. Come back in six months, or hand it to a different assistant, and the context is right there waiting. None of it is trapped in some conversation you had once and forgot.
A simple list ties it all together, so you can glance at everything in flight, then open a folder to dig in.
It backs up what matters and ignores the rest
A lot of what a computer stores is stuff it can rebuild on its own. So the workspace separates the irreplaceable parts, your notes, your decisions, your original footage, from the throwaway parts the machine can regenerate. It backs up only what counts, which keeps the whole thing small and fast. If you work with big video or data, there's a layer that parks it on an external drive when a project wraps and pulls it back, checked for damage, when you need it again.
Why it outlives any one model
Here's the part that pays off the title. The instructions that tell an assistant how to work live in a format more than one AI can read, a standard called AGENTS.md. So this isn't locked to a single product. The knowledge is plain text. The files are yours. When the next model leapfrogs the last one, you point it at the same folder and keep going. You lose nothing that matters.
This is Part 1
What you saw in the video was the high-level run: one interview, and the system builds itself around you. Part 2 goes inside the folders and shows how it runs day to day, how it pulls in new sources, keeps everything linked, and handles the backup side.
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