AI OS Maps Guide

Set Up Your Own AI OS with the MAPS Framework

The free companion to my video Turn Claude Code Into Your AI Operating System (4 Layers).

Four layers, built in this order, one ready-made prompt per layer, plus a prompt that interviews
you first and a prompt for the dashboard views. Paste a card into Claude Code and it walks you
through building that piece, one step at a time. The same guide as a PDF: ai-os-maps-guide.pdf
in this repo.

One thing before you start: the cards are written for Claude Code on your own Claude
subscription. The files they produce are plain markdown, so any LLM can read them later, but if
you run a different agent on a different subscription, check that provider's terms first (see
Card 2).

Ready-made dashboard interfaces

Want the ready-made dashboard interfaces? They are available through the
paid Patreon Builder membership ($15/month).
The MAPS guide remains free.

MAPS

Build them in exactly that order. The dashboard is the last thing I built, not the first, and
honestly it's about 20 percent of the value. The map and the routines are the rest.

Three questions before you build anything

1. Can Claude find any fact about your work in two hops, without you pointing at the file?
2. Does anything in your setup run while your laptop is closed?
3. Does your dashboard only show things, or has it quietly become the place where the truth lives?

Where are you now? The four ladders

Each card below takes one layer to level 3.

Card 0: Let Claude interview you first

If you are starting from nothing, don't write the map yourself. Twenty minutes of questions,
one at a time, gives Claude more to work with than an afternoon of you typing folder names.
Run it as many times as you like, on a different topic each time; every session leaves a…