A national retailer's customer workflows
Automated suites for Salesforce workflows used by millions of shoppers, and .NET middleware connecting Salesforce to loyalty partners.
New partners onboarded without a dedicated .NET developer
01 · In the lab
What's
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AgentsPlatformProductsClient work
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02The lab platform
A self-hosted GitLab with three CI runners and an issue board that people and agents both work from. Nightly encrypted off-site backups, with a tested full restore.
in useMaster sessions
One Claude Code session per project, woken by dropping a text file in a folder and revived on the same conversation.
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Voice to the lab
A connector that lets Claude's phone app see and act on the lab. Every change is read back and waits for a yes.
in use04
05Chief of staff
Triages my inbox, turns sentences into task changes and writes a morning brief. It started with about 1,900 Evernote notes.
in useSkitsmith
The content studio. One publisher for my channels: it plans the calendar, schedules reels, levels the audio and never posts twice.
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Jesse, live
An order driver, WebSocket candles and session reconciliation for the open-source Jesse framework. This is about the engineering only, never returns.
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08Routed RAG assistant
A LangGraph classifier sends each question to SQL analytics, web research or a vector knowledge base.
in useClient sites
Small-business sites built and looked after through my company, Shiloah Software Solutions.
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02 · Before the lab
Track
Retail · Salesforce
Banking · identity
Banking · energy · exports
Enterprise security
Track
record
Identity workflows at a New Zealand bank
Test automation for complex identity and access processes on SailPoint IdentityIQ.
A documented framework handed to the permanent teamMobile, iOS and Android
Suites for banking, energy and food-export apps, run by Azure DevOps pipelines on every code change.
Tests on every change, not just before releaseFrameworks from nothing
End-to-end testing for an identity security product across Windows, Linux, iPad and cloud, after leading a team of 15 testers.
A Selenium regression framework from scratchContract and employee roles since 2000, in New Zealand since 2015, described by the type of work without naming the employers.
03 · Lab notes
Written
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Handing over before compaction: what a long Claude Code session forgets, and how mine write it down first
When a Claude Code session fills its context window it compacts: the conversation is replaced by a summary. With default settings, anything that only lived in the chat can go with it. Here's what survives, what doesn't, and the two hooks that make my sessions write a handover note first.
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One session per project: how my Claude Code agents stay on the job
Every project in my lab gets one long-lived Claude Code session, woken by dropping a text file in a folder. Here's the launcher behind it, the macOS networking trap it walked into, and why a chief-of-staff agent is only allowed to keep two of them busy.
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Welcome to the lab
What letsautom8.dev is for: an engineering notebook about AI agents, automation pipelines and self-hosted tooling, written as experiments rather than case studies.