Journal

Every decision, and why we made it.

Roofus is a framework Method7 is building to run a small business with AI agents: software that takes on a task by itself, with a person checking the result. We write down each choice as we make it, with the options we turned down and what it costs us, so you can judge the reasoning. When we get one wrong, the reversal goes on the record too.

12 November 2026

Day one – setting the ground rules

From an empty folder to a published journal in one day, with agents doing the building and every change checked before it went out.
Decision 0008
Accepted

Which design skills build the journal pages

The agent that builds the journal pages will use Anthropic's design skill for how to work and a written brief for what to make, rather than a ready-made theme.
Decision 0007
Accepted

The journal mirror is pushed with a deploy key

The robot that publishes the journal holds one key that opens the public mirror and nothing else, and only the main branch can use it.
Decision 0006
Accepted

GitHub enforces the rules on main

Nothing reaches the main branch without a pull request and passing checks, and nobody can bypass that, including Simon.
Decision 0005
Accepted

Writing our own house-style skill

We wrote our own skill for UK English and Method7 house style, and left the mechanical rules to automated checks.
Decision 0004
Accepted

One shared, pinned home for Method7's house rules

Method7's general rules move into one small public repository that every project uses at a fixed version, with an automatic check that blocks a change breaking them.
Decision 0003
Accepted

The journal as a shared resource the Method7 site consumes

The journal is written in Roofus and published to a public mirror, which the Method7 site pulls in at build time.
Decision 0002
Accepted

One private monorepo

Everything lives in one private GitHub repository, and only the journal is made public.
Decision 0001
Accepted

Why Roofus, and how we'll build it

A learning project where AI agents build a framework for running a small business, and a human directs and signs off.