How this was built

R-01 // THE CREW

Four chats, each with one job.

• LEADOpus

  Plans the work, writes the briefs, reviews what comes back. The only one allowed to commit.

• BUILDERSonnet

  Builds from LEAD's briefs. Touches only the files a brief names.

• DESIGNSonnet

  Explores layout, type, colour and motion. Doesn't edit project files.

• WRITERSonnet

  Drafts copy and research. Doesn't edit project files either.

• HELPERSHaiku and Sonnet

  Small errands: find a thing in a file, take a screenshot and say pass or fail, read the web.

The strongest model plans and reviews. The cheaper ones do the work. Each chat stays small, so it stays quick.

R-02 // HOW A ROUND WORKS

1. 01
   BRIEF

   LEAD writes one that stands alone: the goal, where things are, which files to touch, the exact wording and a "done when" check.

2. 02
   BUILD

   A worker does the job and replies with a short DONE listing what changed.

3. 03
   CHECK

   Screenshots get taken and checked, and LEAD reviews.

4. 04
   FEEDBACK

   I look at it and I'm blunt. That goes into the next brief.

R-03 // THE RUN

Real times from the git history.

1. FRI 17:43Kickoff

   The team rules and project brief go into git, and the clock starts.

2. FRI 18:20First sections built

   A theme system and the first four sections of the old plan come together.

3. FRI 18:45First footage

   Three slow-motion NASA launch loops arrive, with credits.

4. FRI 20:37Mockup v7

   After six mockups, the layout I wanted finally looks right on paper.

5. FRI 21:22Stage 1 port

   The mockup becomes a real page, in Anton, Barlow and Space Mono.

6. FRI 22:54Soft restart

   The page is well-made sections that don't add up to a journey, so I call a restart for the morning.

7. SAT 08:51Scroll-craft brief

   I answer the skill's questions, and the page becomes structured like an EDM track.

8. SAT 09:21Home page rebuilt

   Seven beats, from Ignition to Pale Blue Dot, plus the Mission Log HUD and The Rig.

9. SAT 10:34Music chapter

   The Errorist synthwave section and the KERSIV genre grids go in.

10. SAT 11:46Round 3

    Hero fixes, the no-fade rule, brand colours and the footage placed.

11. SAT 12:27Round 4

    A Life section with nature timelapses, and the tone pass applied.

12. SAT 12:44Round 5

    Listening charts on sample data, and the Earth zooms out to a dot.

13. SAT 12:50Drawn Earth

    Continents are drawn from real coastline data, with a pause before the zoom.

14. SAT 12:52Pages copy

    The copy for this page, the credits, the 404 and the blog goes to BUILDER.

R-04 // BY THE NUMBERS

• 114commits since Friday evening
• 19briefs written so far
• 7rounds of build and feedback on the home page
• 13video loops, all silent, all cut from public footage
• 4chats on the team, plus a few helpers
• 0sounds that play on their own

R-05 // WATCHTOWER

Running this many chats gets confusing fast, so I built a small dashboard called Watchtower. It reads the logs Claude Code already saves on my computer, nothing is uploaded, and it shows how full each chat is and what's passing between them.

It's a personal project on my own account, and the code stays private.