May 13
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Ron Demerit walked me through the Claude Code harness he built solo — a "Solopreneur Rig" with 16 specialized sub-agents, a product manager orchestrator, and session locking for client work. Learn more about harnesses and how to use them inside the AI Captains Academy: https://skool.com/aicaptains Ready to go deeper? Free 5-day email courses: → AI Foundations Sprint: https://foundations.aicaptains.ai → Command Line Bootcamp: https://bootcamp.aicaptains.ai Inside this AI Captains member spotlight: • Why a harness beats raw Claude Code (context engineering, token efficiency, real separation of concerns) • Three real apps Ron vibe-coded with the rig: a Spanish-learning music player, a native macOS Whisper transcription tool, and Hermit Host (a self-hosted Netlify clone) • How the product manager agent marshals Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku based on the task • The session-locking trick that stops Claude from touching the wrong client project • Where harnesses still go wrong — and the guard rails Ron added to fix it The future belongs to builders who can create their own solutions. Stop depending on others' platforms and start building your own digital empire. Become an AI Captain. 🔧 TOOLS USED IN THIS VIDEO: Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com) Claude Code (https://claude.ai) Harness GitHub (https://github.com/10Legs/freelance-developer-harness) ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Cold open: why a harness beats vibe coding 00:30 Meet Ron Demerit and the Solopreneur Rig 03:01 Demo 1: Canta Conmigo (Spanish via music videos) 05:51 Slash commands that drive the whole app 10:25 The lyric alignment tool (and why AI still hates vocals) 14:50 Demo 2: native macOS Whisper transcription, fully local 18:14 Demo 3: Hermit Host, a self-hosted Netlify alternative 22:00 DNS, SSL, and hosting from your old MacBook Pro 26:00 Why your home server is more capable than you think 30:30 Inside the rig: 16 agents, three councils, one product manager 34:30 Dynamic model routing: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku per agent 35:50 Session locking and the client-isolation problem 39:15 Where to find Ron and the open-source rig Say hi on X: https://x.com/jordanurbs Substack: https://jordanurbs.substack.com/ For the algorithm: Agent harness Agentic harness Ai agent harness claude code harness solopreneur