getting-stuff-done

A personal collection of various things for productivity with and without AI tools from Manfred Moser.

All material in this repo is created, tested, and maintained by myself and for myself.

AI assistant instructions

AGENTS.md in the root of this repo holds my cross-tool instructions for AI coding assistants — commit message style, attribution trailer preferences, and similar global rules. Each tool reads it via a symlink from its expected user-level instruction file, so the rules live in one place and a single edit propagates to all of them.

Symlink setup

On a fresh machine, after cloning this repo, run:

cd getting-stuff-done

# Claude Code → ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude
ln -s "$PWD/AGENTS.md" ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

# Codex CLI → ~/.codex/AGENTS.md
mkdir -p ~/.codex
ln -s "$PWD/AGENTS.md" ~/.codex/AGENTS.md

# Gemini CLI → ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md
mkdir -p ~/.gemini
ln -s "$PWD/AGENTS.md" ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md

Verify with:

ls -la ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md ~/.codex/AGENTS.md ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md

Each should show as a symlink to AGENTS.md in this repo. If any tool ships a default instruction file at its expected path, move or back it up before running the ln -s command — ln will fail rather than overwrite, but a pre-existing regular file will block the symlink.

Resources

This project is inspired by my own experience and the shared learning of many others. Find more details in the following, very incomplete sections.

Projects

A list of other projects that I looked at in more or less detail over time:

• Gastown
• Beads
• superpowers
• promptfoo
• notme.bot
• claude-guard

Writing

Blog posts and other written resources that caught my attention:

• Steve Yegge - I have been reading his long articles for many years now, and so of course I followed Gastown and other projects.
• The Passive AI Learning Stack That Changed the Way I Learn
• OpenClaw and the Architecture Nobody Noticed
• Something Big Is Happening
• Clarity Is the New Bottleneck
• Will you be my CLI? Making Agents fall in love with Langfuse.
• The Fossil Record of Harness Engineering

Videos

Video tutorials, overviews, or shows I watched at least partially and found useful: