Adama docs: the book, the website, and the panel corpus

Feb 2026 – Apr 2026 · age 44

What it was

Seventy-four thousand lines of prose around a platform. There was a book of sixty-one chapters from a generator Jeff built, with its Adama code blocks validated during the build. There was a relaunched website carrying ninety-one imported blog posts and six years of quarterly updates. There was a guide written for AI coding assistants, "a small love letter to a language", and a voice guide distilled from the author's own blog so generated prose would sound like Jeff. Then came a spring corpus of strategy papers written as debates among invented experts: a panel review scoring the platform about seven out of ten, a roadmap, a community paper, and a readiness document grading the agent layer in tiers. A farewell followed in August, never committed.

Wins, for the age

• At forty-four, the human proposed treating the book as a contract with a model: if the book says a feature works, a model reading only the book must get it right first try. Nobody popular has claimed that idea yet, though the benchmark was never built.
• Rebuilt and relaunched the whole book and website in about sixty commits in a single day.
• Found on their own what multi-agent persona debate (AutoGen, 2023) had found: invented experts with declared lenses, dissent and a scored verdict, later turned on a product too.
• Wrote readiness tiers with named gates instead of a single "ready" flag, an honest shape for shipping agents.

What it taught

• Documentation at this volume needs one source of truth. The corpus contradicted itself on module counts, tool-round defaults and what mutating tools may write.
• Deleting the honesty documents while still citing them turned trust artefacts into thirty-six dangling references in one afternoon.
• A method that debates itself is still one voice. The panels said both "hire a second engineer" and "Do not hire", and nobody reconciled them.

Genealogy

Ancestors: Tutor: the teacher's instinct to show the work, not just the answer. Wake: a home-made static site generator for publishing a blog. Descendants: Hearth Docs: governing documents checked by a gate, then cut honestly to size. Part of: Adama.

Epitaph

A book that promised to be a contract, a website that learned to sound like its author, and a week of invented experts who could not agree whether to hire anyone. The honest documents were deleted before the farewell was written.