Appendix E — Appendix: Resources
E.1 The labs
- Programming labs (companion series): michael-borck.github.io/programming-labs
- Programming toys: github.com/michael-borck/programming-toys
- Labs thesis essay: SPEAK-SOFTWARE.md in the labs repository
- Gear, environments, models, and costs: RESOURCES.md in the labs repository
E.2 Staff tools (Labs 13–15)
Three follow-on labs pair with this book’s harness chapters and ship a reference implementation in this repository’s tools/ folder: - Lab 13, Close the Gate: the five-gate check (tools/slop_check.py) - Lab 14, The Paper Trail: the evidence-trio linter (tools/trio_lint.py) - Lab 15, The Doctor Is In: environment pre-flight (tools/lab_doctor.py)
E.3 Model access
- Accounts, subscriptions, credits, and switching providers: the Model Access appendix in this book
E.4 Agents and skills
- Named path in the labs: pi; any CLI agent works
- Jake Van Clief and David McDermott, Interpretable Context Methodology: Folder Structure as Agent Architecture (2026): the folders-over-agents framing and numbered stage workspaces: arxiv.org/html/2603.16021v2
- Anthropic Agent Skills documentation: the skill-folder architecture of Chapter 12
- Boris Cherny / Claude Code guidance on AI slop and the mini-CEO role (2026): see Chapter 2
E.5 The series
- All titles: books.borck.education
- Conversation, Not Delegation: the underlying framework, and the source of the VET reflex (Chapter 8)
- Prove, Don’t Persuade: verification for applied-AI work, and the source of the Trust Tool
- The Absolute Minimum You Must Know: the free quick reference at minimum.borck.education