Robert Lester

Workflow

Idea to shipped

Here's the whole loop, from a message I send to a change I approve. It's the same loop on every project, because every agent runs the same shared skills.

  1. Robert

    An idea

    It starts with me. A bug I hit, a feature I want, a page that needs a rewrite. I write it the way I'd say it out loud.

    Output A message in chat

  2. Grok Bot · Wes

    Grok Bot routes it

    Grok Bot picks up the message and Wes scopes it: what's in, what's out, which repo, and which agent owns it. Big ideas get split into tickets first.

    Output A scoped brief or a set of tickets

  3. Fleet skills

    The agent loads the shared skills

    Before writing anything, the agent pulls the same playbooks every other project uses: how to triage, how to test, how to write the PR. That's why the work looks consistent across repos.

    Output The same process on every project

  4. Cody · Archie · Penny · Bugsy

    An agent builds it in Cursor

    A Cursor cloud agent works on its own branch. Archie shapes it, Cody writes it, Bugsy breaks it, and Penny makes it look right. Lint, typecheck, and build have to pass before anything else happens.

    Output A branch with passing checks

  5. Cody · Otto

    PR + Vercel preview

    The agent opens a pull request with a plain-English description. Vercel builds a preview URL for that branch, so I review the real thing, not a screenshot.

    Output A pull request and a preview link

  6. Robert

    I approve it

    Nothing merges, deploys to production, or shows up in the public Ship Log until I say so. The agents do the work and I make the call.

    Output A merge, a deploy, and an approved log entry

The layer that makes it repeatable

Shared fleet skills

Every agent pulls from the same library of skills: written playbooks for how we triage a bug, write a spec, test a fix, review a PR, and ship a preview. The playbooks travel with the agent, so the mobile apps, the web platforms, client work, and this site all get the same process instead of one-off prompts.

  • One playbook, many repos. When a playbook improves, every project gets the improvement on its next run.
  • Agents follow the playbook, not their mood. The same request gets handled the same way on Tuesday and on Saturday.
  • Each repo carries its own context file, and the shared skills read it. The process stays the same while each project keeps its own details.
  • The process has guardrails: tests before fixes, previews before merges, and my approval before anything goes public.

The kinds of playbooks the fleet shares

  • Triage
  • Specs & tickets
  • Test-first fixes
  • Code review
  • Design polish
  • Preview & deploy

The playbooks themselves are private. This page describes the pattern, not the prompts.

The fleet

Who does what

See it in the Ship LogThe stack the agents build onAsk about the fleet