I want to take a minute to thank @Jake Van Clief for giving me the opportunity to bring this material to our community. This community is more than just a place to post, it's a place to engage with people, to learn and grow together and I am grateful to Jake and the community for making this skool what it is. If you have been following the releases of my latest classes, the latest rung on the ladder is open! (If you are just getting here, do not worry, the first three rungs are open, and you can find the links below in the "where you are standing" section of this post ☺️) Rung three built what survives the window. Rung four is what runs without you, open from today. Think of the last thing you asked the model to redo. It drafted, you read it, you said "shorter." It drafted again, you read again, you said "warmer." Then "send it." Four rounds, and every one of them waited on you, because the only thing that knew what good looked like was sitting in your head. That is not the model being lazy. That is a loop with a person welded into the middle of it, and the person is you. 📚 What just opened: Loop Engineering, the whole rung at once. The Overview draws the line the rung stands on, single-pass against a closed circuit, and the three classes carry one claim each: (1) The acting is easy, the evaluating is hard (2) A loop that does not know when to stop is not careful, it is lost (3) Some judgment stays with a person, on purpose Then the payoff, the whole series on one card, and my perspective on rung four. By the end you own a loop: your "done when" line rewritten as a check the system runs on its own work, a rule for when it stops, and one clear place where you still sign off. Fewer "agains," and every one that is left is one you chose. 🪜 Where you are standing (Rungs 1, 2 & 3 should be completed) If not, you can find them here. They are in order and should be taken from series 1 to series 2 and so on: PROMPT ENGINEERING 📚 Series 1 Overview

Congratulations to @Jeff Van Leenen ! Jeff already has Lifetime VIP, so this time he gets a 30 minute 1-on-1 call with Jake directly! ⏰ The 7-day clock resets. Next Monday someone new takes the top spot. 🎯 How it works: - 📝 Post things worth reading - 💬 Help people in the comments - 🛠️ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - ❤️ Engage with what others are putting out there The leaderboard tracks all of it. 🎁 The prize, depending on where you're at: 🆓 Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free ⭐ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying 👑 Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying 💎 Lifetime VIP? Get a 30 minute 1-on-1 with Jake. Either way, you stop paying.

I really want to love this course, but every time I sit down to work through lessons, I don't know what to do. The instructions don't seem clear to me and the more I watch the more confused I get.

Playing around with new Claude mods functionality and this plugin I just made will let you dive deeper into where all your context is being used. Works in terminal or the desktop app and sits right above the text input box. https://github.com/donroy26/context-drilldown I always looked at the context menu and wondered exactly what tools or memory is being used in each session and now it’s part of the UI. Let me know what you think or if this gives you any other ideas what you’d like to see next!

HERMES WORLD ENGINE Hermes World Engine is a folder-based creative workflow for building consistent characters and worlds, producing approved images, and animating those images. Briefs, specifications, references and review records preserve creative intent across generations. I built this entirely from scratch inside my Hermes Agent with the Desktop App on a Hermes Agent gateway on a VPS. I did not use anyone else's template but future builds will incorporate the ideas from Jake's recently re-made animation build. I've used eleven labs before , but the quality that Jake produced made me a believe it can be done properly. Build status Working prototype—not yet a full studio. Built and exercised: world/character records, image production, approvals, and brief-led image-to-video animation through Hermes → Nous → Seedance 2.5. Proven output: two accepted animated clips. All four workflow tests currently pass. Designed, not implemented: optional intake routing, story foundations, maps, multi-angle reference libraries, storyboards and sequence continuity. Future composition: voice, sound, captions and final assembly using tools such as ElevenLabs and Remotion—after animation assets are accepted.