I spent a year trying to improve Claude Code.
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The short version
Here’s the video as a TL;DR.
1. 1 📻
Walkie-talkies
The agents couldn’t talk to each other, so I played telephone between them. Every agent got a walkie-talkie: it can see who else is working, what they’re on, and talk to them directly. One big project can now split across many agents that sort things out between themselves. 2. 2 📱Claude Code reads my phone
Nothing started until I copied a request over by hand. I built an app that lets Claude Code read my notifications as they arrive. A text, an email, a Slack message — it sees the request before I do. 3. 3 🎩Specialists
One agent doing everything did nothing well. Alfred handles my notifications and only decides where each one goes. Every project has its own agent that knows exactly how I want that project run. 4. 4 🏠Steadings
The work kept stopping at “mostly done.” Each project is a Steading. A Worker does the job, and a Steward checks it against my standards and sends it back until every step is actually done — reproduced, fixed, proven, deployed, reply drafted. 5. 5 ✓Done before I’m involved
What it all adds up to. By the time a request reaches me, the work is usually already finished and checked. It shows up as one card, on my laptop or my phone, and often all that’s left is a look and a reply.?
Where Homestead is going
Leave only the human work.
Not where it is today. Where I’m taking it.
Some decisions only a person should make. The goal is one screen with you at the center: it hands you the next most important question, with the data you need to answer it right there. You decide, and everything else keeps moving.
Over time, more of the work can move to AI. Some of it never should. Homestead’s job is to take the busywork and leave you the decisions that are actually yours.
For it to know which question matters most, it has to understand my priorities and every channel the work comes through. That’s the hard part, and it’s what I’m building toward.
I don’t think anyone’s Homestead should look the same. And no one’s should ever be “done.” It should evolve with you.
Say hi
I’d love to hear from you.
1 Email me
The best way to reach me.
joshua@mullet.townCopy
2 Or book a time
A quick 15 minutes or a full hour — your call. Weekday mornings 8–9 and evenings 5–6, Eastern.
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If these times don’t work, just email me and we can probably make something work.
Just curious?
Or ask Alfred about Homestead
Alfred is my AI assistant, not me. It answers questions about Homestead whenever you have them, so you don’t have to wait on me.
🎩Alfred_Joshua’s assistant_AI, not Joshua
Hi — I'm Alfred, Joshua's assistant. Ask me anything about how Homestead works. Fair warning: I'm an AI, not Joshua.
What else can the phone app do?What happens when an agent's tool breaks?What if an agent crashes halfway through a job?How do you avoid bugging Joshua with junk?How does Joshua actually talk to all of you?
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Build your own
The code is public. Make it yours.
Everything Homestead runs on is open. Don’t try to set it up by hand, though. On its own it’s wired to my Mac, my phone and the way I work. Paste one prompt into Claude Code (or any agent) and it builds you your own, then helps you bend it to fit your work.
\> I want to set up Homestead on this computer and make it my own…