Concept Glossary
Every idea taught across the workshop — 70 concepts, grouped by lesson.
🧠 Lesson 1: Escape the Token Ceiling
Workflow Optimization
Resource Management
Architecture
🎛️ Lesson 2: Command Your Terminal Like an Orchestra
Agent-First Software Design
The Manager-Worker Topology
Natural Language Layout Control
Cross-Pane Terminal Context Reading
AFK Automation Loops
🗂️ Lesson 3: Give Your Agents a Memory
Agent-Managed Folders
Global Gitignore Partitioning
Targeted Matrix Refinement
Token Optimization
Agent First Extensibility Paradigm
Live Check-Back Tracking Files
Native Harness Memory Systems
📐 Lesson 4: Source of Truth Over Stale Memory
Basic Memory vs. Stale Memory
Source-of-Truth Code
Million-Token Snapshot Contexts
YOLO Bypassing (Sandbox Approvals)
Design.md File Standard
Multi-Route Structural Variants
🐒 Lesson 5: The 100 Monkeys & Perspective Prompting
Perspective-Based Prompting
Discardable QA Files
The 100 Monkeys Technique
Contextual Multiplexer Inspection via JSON
Video-Driven Intent Extraction
Single-Threaded Main Prototyping
System-Monitoring Safeguards
Agent-Assisted Profiling
🎨 Lesson 6: Design With Images & Video
CMUX Primary Orchestrator Pattern
Token Efficiency
Flash Models
Image Generation as Design Reference
Video Prompting
Physical Pomodoro Anchor
Image-to-Design Hand-off
MCP vs. CLI Boundary Dilemma
🪝 Lesson 7: Hooks, Skills & the Ralph Loop
Compaction
Conversation Forking
User Prompt Hook
Tool Use Hook
Stop Hook
Ralph Loop
Skills vs Plugins
Custom Grammar Interceptors
♻️ Lesson 8: Self-Improving Loops & Deterministic Gates
CMUX Text Mode Pane Extraction
Self-Improvement Error Loop
Log-Based Deterministic Gates
Natural Language Contract Boundaries
Context Pruning
Thread Warm-Up Low-Latency Pattern
🤖 Lesson 9: Background Daemons & Agent Swarms
Background Daemons
Self-Aware Code Scripts
Low Reasoning Iteration
Context Ceiling Strategy
Multi-Agent Swarms
Bespoke Platform Constraints
Multimodal Quality Assurance Loop
Semantic Syntax Engineering
🌙 Lesson 10: Codex Daemons & Overnight Crons
Context Triad
Agent Archetypes
Codex Demons
Overnight Emulated Crons
Natural Language Loose Coupling
📜 Lesson 11: Code as a Throwaway Artifact
Natural-Language Contracts
Video-as-Requirements
Code as a Throwaway Artifact
Complexity Management Strategy (State Machine + Module)
Living Guardrails (agents.md)
The Bifurcated Engineer