AI agent build templates
The system that runs this company, in a folder.
Identity files, a rulebook agents cannot talk their way around, dispatch protocols and the working loop — the actual documents running Front Porch Collective, packaged to drop into your own setup.
The shelf
The AGENT Method Starter Kit
Six pieces, written to be used rather than read. Everything here is the working version — if we change how the company runs, the kit changes with it.
Identity files
Three plain-English files per agent — how it acts, who it is and its one job, and who it works for. The thing that stops an agent drifting.
The standing rulebook
The company law every agent is held to, written so it can be enforced rather than admired. Ours runs to nineteen rules.
Dispatch protocol
How work and information move between agents and sessions without becoming a game of telephone — including the rule that a dispatch is information, never authority.
The DATA loop
Diagnose, assemble, take action, assess — the working cycle every agent runs before anything is shown to anyone.
Definitions of done
One measurable sentence per agent. Work is not finished until it has been checked against it.
The org chart pattern
How to structure lanes so that one agent does one job, and work flows one level at a time.
Three steps
How you would use it
Name the lanes
List the jobs your work actually contains. One agent per job, narrow edges, nothing left improvised.
Fill in the identity files
Three short files per agent, in plain English. The templates ask the questions; you answer them about your work.
Run the loop and hold the line
Diagnose, assemble, act, assess — every task, every time. The rulebook is what keeps it honest on the days you are busy.
Straight answers
Agent templates, answered
What am I actually buying?
A set of documents and file templates — the written system, not software. You paste them into your own agent tooling and adapt the names and lanes to your work.
Does this depend on a particular AI tool?
No. It is plain Markdown and plain English. It has been exercised in Claude Code sessions, but nothing in it is tied to one vendor.
Is this theory or is it running somewhere?
It runs this company every day. The rulebook, the identity files and the dispatch protocol in the kit are the working versions, not a teaching example written afterwards.
Will it work for a one-person business?
That is the case it was built for. One person plus a structured set of agents, with the structure doing the remembering. Cut lanes you do not need — the method survives being made smaller.
Can I buy it right now?
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Nothing has been sold yet, so there is nothing honest to put here. When there are real buyers with real words, this fills in. Not before.
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