# ari's space

> Essays by Ari Leavesley on building with AI: workflows, briefs, dispatch, memory, and tools. Each document below is a self-contained, server-rendered page.

## Workspaces

- [Build Your Workspace Once. Then Don't Touch the Foundation Again.](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/workspaces/build-your-workspace-once): How three roots make orchestration portable across agents.
- [One sentence. Four product pages. Two hours. One round of notes.](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/workspaces/one-sentence-four-product-pages)

## Discipline and Process

- [Building Aris Space: 8 Hours, 5 Sessions, One Site](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/discipline-and-process/building-aris-space): How aris-space.com got built end-to-end with Claude in 8 hours, across 5 sessions, never breaking 50% context.
- [The Codex Loop: A Native App Dev Playbook](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/discipline-and-process/the-codex-loop): Brain in the planning model, hands in the executor, verification gates that catch black-screen surprises before they ship. The methodology that built a Mac app in three days.

## Tools and Plugins

- [ARI-OS: set it up and use it](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/tools-and-plugins/ari-os): The open-source operating layer for directing background workers. How to set it up, what it gives you, and how to use it.
- [Warm the room, keep the grade honest](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/tools-and-plugins/shade): Why I built a free reading-comfort overlay for Mac, and the one macOS limit that shaped the whole thing.

## Ari's Thoughts & Scribbles

- [Stop Prompting. Start Defining Outcomes.](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/thoughts-and-scribbles/stop-prompting-start-defining-outcomes): Most people use AI like a slot machine. The makers I respect run a workshop. Three moves to flip your output, with the workflow that built Pushing Frames as a worked example.

## Memory

- [I gave my LLM a Cortex](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/memory/cortex): A brain-inspired memory layer that gives any LLM persistent, self-organising, auto-recalled context.

## Workflows

- [540 Commits. One Human.](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/workflows/540-commits-one-human): A week and a half as an orchestrator: 540 commits, one human, and a system that built itself. By the numbers.
- [I directed a website live, the way I direct a film set](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/workflows/direct-the-screen): I never wrote a prompt. I sat in the director's chair, reacted to a live render, and called one change at a time while an agent built each move.
- [Fable made me start using Codex](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/workflows/fable-made-me-start-using-codex): A stronger Claude did not replace the other models. It made matrixing Claude, Codex, Kimi and MiniMax M3 to their best tasks effortless.

## ARI-OS

- [Advanced: the default-off surface](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/ari-os/advanced): The power-user surface that ships switched off: knowledge graph, prediction, prefetch, mind-wander, EARS, and LENS.
- [Get the most from the Cortex brain](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/ari-os/brain): How the local Cortex brain remembers, recalls, consolidates, and tunes itself to what you are working on.
- [Install ARI-OS](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/ari-os/install): Clone, install, run the wizard, and verify. The install is backed up and reversible.
- [What ARI-OS is](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/ari-os/overview): The orchestrator-first layer for Claude Code: the shift from doing to directing, the loop it runs, and the four pillars underneath.
- [Using ARI-OS day to day](https://www.aris-space.com/documents/ari-os/using-it): The commands, skills, Cortex MCP tools, and the dispatch and monitor surface you drive every day.

## Other

- [About Ari Leavesley](https://www.aris-space.com/about): Who Ari is and what this site is for.