Written lesson
Build the AI System You Actually Need
Start with your real work, then let Home Base find the smallest useful system worth building.
Explore the lessonHome Base
Make AI useful in your own world.
A starter folder that helps your AI understand your work, choose a useful improvement, and build it with you.
How this works
Start with your work. Build from there.
Home Base is a folder you use with an AI coding tool. It interviews you about your life and work, then helps you choose one useful system to build.
- 1Help your AI understand your work.
- 2Choose one useful improvement together.
- 3Build it, check it, and keep what works.
Ready to set up Home Base?You’ll need Codex on your computer. Read the instruction before running it.
Your next step
Get your Home Base
You’ll need: Codex with access to a local folder and the public release download.
Paste into Codex to download, verify and open the Home Base folder.
This asks your AI to download and check the released package. Review any permissions before continuing.
Ready to copy
Home Base setup instruction (home-base-setup-v1): Download Home Base 1.0.1 from https://github.com/MattEspo23/home-base/releases/download/v1.0.1/home-base-1.0.1.tgz. Before extracting it, verify the file's SHA-256 is exactly 4dc10ed2beb97f611e5eb99696df3dc8760f79042d10757e7d99833d1a7f0a30. Open the extracted Home Base folder in Codex, run its built-in validation and capability doctor, then begin with Start. Preserve user-owned files and local Skill customizations. Use the built-in preview/review/apply update flow; never overwrite a conflict or bypass a failed check. Ask before any login, external write, send, publish, spend, deploy, or account-permission change. Stop and explain the mismatch if an identity, checksum, validation, or recovery check fails.
What happens nextCodex verifies the archive and runs the built-in checks before starting the Home Base conversation.
All eight lessons are ready to read. The companion videos are being prepared.
Your path through Home Base
8 entriesWritten lesson
What Your AI Should Know, Remember, and Verify
Give AI useful context without turning guesses, stale notes, or private details into permanent truth.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
Choose the Right AI System Before You Build
Match the shape of the system to the job instead of forcing every problem into an agent.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
Turn Real Work Into a Repeatable AI Setup
Capture inputs, decisions, checks, and stopping rules from work that has already earned a second use.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
Connect Your AI Without Sharing Your Password
Use scoped connections and explicit authority instead of handing an agent unrestricted account access.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
Let AI Use Chrome Without Giving It Unlimited Control
Keep browser work observable, scoped, and deliberate when no direct integration fits.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
When Your AI Needs an Interface
Know when a repeatable system has earned a clearer surface for inputs, review, and handoff.
Explore the lessonWritten lesson
Make Your AI Better the Next Time
Capture evidence from each useful run and turn it into a deliberate improvement loop.
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A portable folder that interviews you one question at a time, remembers what matters, and helps your AI build the right small system around your life and work.
- Understand: Confirm the person, work, tools, priorities, and boundaries.
- Recommend: Produce a short Opportunity Map grounded in what is true now.
- Build: Turn one approved opportunity into a bounded system.
Start
Download Home Base
Public release
Download the verified release, then copy one instruction into Codex to validate the package and begin safely.
One-copy Codex setup
Copyable text
Home Base setup instruction (home-base-setup-v1): Download Home Base 1.0.1 from https://github.com/MattEspo23/home-base/releases/download/v1.0.1/home-base-1.0.1.tgz. Before extracting it, verify the file's SHA-256 is exactly 4dc10ed2beb97f611e5eb99696df3dc8760f79042d10757e7d99833d1a7f0a30. Open the extracted Home Base folder in Codex, run its built-in validation and capability doctor, then begin with Start. Preserve user-owned files and local Skill customizations. Use the built-in preview/review/apply update flow; never overwrite a conflict or bypass a failed check. Ask before any login, external write, send, publish, spend, deploy, or account-permission change. Stop and explain the mismatch if an identity, checksum, validation, or recovery check fails.
Version 1.0.1 · SHA-256 4dc10ed2beb9… · Skill Vault v0.1.3
Download verified archive · Source · MIT license · Community support
A verified public release, ready for Codex
- 13 Home Base workflows + 27 Skill Vault packages
- Immutable source, archive, and SHA-256 receipt
- Customization-preserving update review
- Fresh public download keeper passed
Version 1.0.1 is MIT-licensed with community support. Login, sends, publishing, spending, deployment, and account changes still require their own approval.
Learn the system as you build it
Every episode will pair the video with a complete written lesson, copyable resources, and the related Skills.
- Video · Episode 00 Build the AI System You Actually Need (9 min): Start with your real work, then let Home Base find the smallest useful system worth building.
- Video · Episode 01 What Your AI Should Know, Remember, and Verify (12 min): Give AI useful context without turning guesses, stale notes, or private details into permanent truth.
- Video · Episode 02 Choose the Right AI System Before You Build (11 min): Match the shape of the system to the job instead of forcing every problem into an agent.
- Video · Episode 03 Turn Real Work Into a Repeatable AI Setup (14 min): Capture inputs, decisions, checks, and stopping rules from work that has already earned a second use.
- Video · Episode 04 Connect Your AI Without Sharing Your Password (10 min): Use scoped connections and explicit authority instead of handing an agent unrestricted account access.
- Video · Episode 05 Let AI Use Chrome Without Giving It Unlimited Control (13 min): Keep browser work observable, scoped, and deliberate when no direct integration fits.
- Video · Episode 06 When Your AI Needs an Interface (11 min): Know when a repeatable system has earned a clearer surface for inputs, review, and handoff.
- Video · Episode 07 Make Your AI Better the Next Time (9 min): Capture evidence from each useful run and turn it into a deliberate improvement loop.
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