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How I forced Claude to finish the job

I I do a lot of with Oracle APEX, and since April I run it out of a single folder. It is an Obsidian vault, a git repository and a Claude Code project at the same time. I call it my Brain, and Claude Code is the operator working inside it. This article is not about prompts. It is about the less visible part: contracts, checklists, git discipline, hooks and a feedback loop, because that is what turned Claude from a clever intern into something I can hand a task to and walk away from. Almost every piece below was born from a mistake it made. This is the simplified version. Every section below has more behind it than I can show here, and whole areas of the Brain (the parts that read my inbox, draft invoices, scrape LinkedIn or run my weekly audits) are left out on purpose. If you know Hermes Agent from Nous Research, the self-improving agent with its own skills and memory, this is kind of my version of it. Built from Markdown, git and hooks instead of a framework, and tuned for ...