Why this book exists
- How this book was made
- Edition and rights
Reader guide and glossary
- Practical Work Delivery with Multiple AIs
- Companion files
- Glossary
- Chapter list
Chapter 01 — From an idea to a usable result
- Start with the use, then choose the output
- A small research assignment
- Picture the finished result
- Give the check a different job
- Give each tool a clear job
- Write your own brief and test the handoff
Chapter 02 — Plan, Do, Check, Act with two or more AIs
- Start with one small result and a limit
- Give producing and checking different jobs
- Follow an actual correction, with its limits visible
- Match the check to the output
- Keep a small cycle record
Chapter 03 — Prepare your computer and AI CLIs
- Start with a small, known setup
- Check Python before the trial
- Complete one workstation checklist
- Choose licences and a trial allowance
- Make a workspace and run one bounded task
- Keep the diagram editable
- Check your result
Chapter 04 — Give each AI an identity and the right access
- Separate six things that look like one identity
- Give each role the access it needs
- Set up the shared-tool accounts and connections
- Read the reference map honestly
- Make your own map and check it
- Keep shared GitHub use attributable
- Use access evidence without creating false blockers
Chapter 05 — Use Jira to manage work units
- Make the work small enough to finish and check
- Copy this work-unit card
- Understand the states before moving them
- Try a four-item practice queue
- Connect as the right actor and make one small action
- From this queue to bounded automatic pickup
Chapter 06 — Use Confluence for durable records and shared memory
- Leave five connected records
- Make current and superseded unmistakable
- Write a handoff the next session can use
- Revise a diagram without losing the editable source
- Keep missing screenshots in a separate inventory
- Check what the next AI can recover
Chapter 07 — Use GitHub for durable files and outputs
- Understand a version without learning a programming workflow
- Use the versioned sample
- Check a fingerprint with one command
- Write a manifest that removes guessing
- Choose storage that fits the files
- Recover, edit and export the native diagram
- Separate the service actor from an author label
- Check the exact delivery
Chapter 08 — Connect the tools and prove the setup works
- Start from the accounts you already prepared
- Give the trial a finite boundary
- Make and check one small output
- Revise a picture from its editable source
- Observe a denied operation and a real stop
- Copy this connection record
- Know what makes this automatic
Chapter 09 — Write work units an AI can complete and check
- Describe a result, then its proof
- A small card that is actually usable
- Add detail when the decision needs it
- Fill the operating fields before pickup
- Make missing information a defined outcome
- Split by useful outputs and dependencies
- Check that the card can travel
Chapter 10 — Build the queue and automate ticket pickup
- Put a boundary around the queue
- Claim once, then show the claim
- One owner and one delivery — BOOK-VIS-010
- Give publication its own gate
- Reference configuration you can reproduce
- Read what the evidence actually proves
- Try the protocol on your work
Chapter 11 — Plan and do the work
- Load the job before doing the job
- Make a plan with a finish
- Do the work and leave checkpoints
- The candidate exists
- A handoff another AI can use
Chapter 12 — Check the result and expose blind spots
- Give the checker the whole job
- Match the evidence to the result
- Research: challenge the claim, not just its wording
- Presentations: inspect the thing the audience sees
- Software: use observable results and counterexamples
- Write a finding someone can act on
Chapter 13 — Act on findings and repeat with purpose
- Start with the finding and the evidence
- Choose a response that fits
- Correct a real error, then check the change
- Disagree with a reviewer when the source warrants it
- Ask a precise question when facts are missing
- Use another cycle for a stated purpose
- Leave a disposition record someone can follow
Chapter 14 — Set budgets, stopping rules and escalation
- Make the allowance belong to the work
- Write an enforceable policy
- Keep the record when work stops — BOOK-VIS-008
- A retry is not a new plan
- Recognise a stop that matters
- One set of resume-authority classes
- Make stopping practical
- Separate measured usage from guaranteed limits
- Check that the policy really stops work
Chapter 15 — Recover from failures and resume without repeating work
- Keep enough evidence to restart
- Use the recovery card
- Decide what may happen next
- Repair the record before repeating the delivery
- Resume from the original record — BOOK-VIS-009
- Try six finite exercises
- Record the outcome a colleague needs
Chapter 16 — Deliver outputs and close the work unit
- Check the result against the whole request
- Assemble one usable package
- Reopen what the recipient will receive
- Make closure follow the recorded authority
- A completed delivery card
- Preserve partial work without calling it complete
- Close the loop with a useful lesson
Chapter 17 — Complete a research assignment
- Define the question and the stopping point
- Let an eligible work unit be picked up
- Collect evidence and look for a contrary answer
- Follow the recorded correction
- The complete research report
- Publish the result and the work history
Chapter 18 — Create and verify a PowerPoint presentation
- Make a presentation someone can use
- Plan the message and the checks
- Produce an editable story
- Check the file people will receive
- Follow the actual correction trail
- Deliver and leave a useful record
Chapter 19 — Build a software deliverable
- Specify useful behaviour
- Retrieve and run the exact package
- Check behaviour independently
- Use review to challenge the implementation
- Hand over a usable result
Chapter 20 — Use lessons to improve the next cycle
- Make the next task easier to get right
- Turn an observation into a checked change
- Measure the work without claiming more than you know
- Compare equivalent work before changing the process
- Maintain the setup that makes delivery possible
- Complete the cycle
Companion files
- Obtain and restore the files
- Choose an exercise
- Check an output before starting an AI
- Run automation within a new, explicit allowance
- Revise editable pictures and keep the record