Take life and work admin off your plate.

A starter kit for Claude Code that sets up a private repo where an agent keeps your tasks, briefs you each morning, and asks before it acts.

Available soon

One-time purchase. Download a zip, run /setup.

Off your plate in two weeks, or your money back.

Three of four cleared while you slept. One came back to you.

What you get

Setup writes a new git repo for you: the rules your agent follows, what it knows about each part of your life, your task list, and memory that carries over between sessions. It is plain markdown, JSON, and small Node scripts. No server, no account, no database.

The core, always installed

An operating manual (CLAUDE.md) with startup steps, working rules, and hard stops set by the autonomy level you pick.
An agent persona with a name you choose, who signs what it writes.
One folder per area of your life, each with a README for context and a log of actions.
A task list in tasks/TASKS.md, with notes on swapping in Linear or Todoist.
Memory seeded with about 20 working rules, with optional sync to a private git repo.
/capture to file a thought in one step, and /checkup for a pass/fail health table.
/audit-session to turn the friction from a session into edits to your own rules, one approval at a time, plus /tidy-memory to keep what it remembers from sprawling.

Modules you can add

Daily ops: Morning briefing, weekly review, risk sweep, inbox triage, a weekly at-the-keyboard pass, and a recap of finished work for a standup or a client update.
Routines: Scheduled cloud agents for the briefing and an inbox sweep, with prompts kept in git.
Life playbooks: Bill and subscription audits, travel prep, appointment booking, annual renewals, home maintenance, gift planning.
Anti-slop: Checks outbound drafts for generated-text tells and adds /deslop to rewrite them.
Dev workflow: Worktree, commit, and merge scripts, PR guards, and a code reviewer agent, plus ticket-to-plan drafting, a devil’s-advocate review pass, and a file-by-file walkthrough before you open a pull request.
Review queue: A queue of pull requests waiting for your review that clears merged ones.
Safe cleanup: Removes old worktrees and plan files only when the work is provably done, and asks first.
Herdr sessions: Runs each session in its own labeled tab of Herdr, a separate open-source terminal workspace for coding agents, so several long jobs stay apart. It installs the official build on request; no third-party code ships in the download.
Audio: A listening mode that rewrites replies for the ear, no tables, lists, or links, and /read to speak the last one out loud with the voice engine already on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.

Presets

Start from freelancer, household, developer, or small business. A preset fills in the modules and life areas, and you can widen it to the whole kit or change any of it before a file is written.

The fill-in interview

Right after setup, about three rounds of questions turn into domain notes, your first tasks, and saved preferences. It never overwrites anything you already wrote.

What it looks like after a few weeks

From the sample repo included in the kit: a fictional freelance designer juggling client work and a family.

briefings/2026-09-14.md

# Briefing: Monday 2026-09-14

## Today
- 8:30am to 12pm Focus block: Northwind review round 2 deck (menu, cart, guest checkout).
- 1:00pm Call with Marcus about the parent onboarding flow (20 min). Prep: the change order draft is ready for your review.

## Needs you
- **Brightpath change order (14 hours).** Marcus wants the parent onboarding flow started this month. Recommendation: send the change order today before the call, so the call is about scope, not price. It is in your drafts; nothing goes out without your yes.
- **Gutter cleaning.** Quote 1 is $140 for 2026-10-06 or later; quote 2 has not come back in 6 days. Recommendation: book quote 1 if nothing arrives by Wednesday.

## At risk
- Northwind handoff 2026-09-25: 9 days left, with review round 2 on 2026-09-17 leaving 6 working days for revisions.

## I'll handle
- Log Brightpath hours at end of day.
- Nudge the second gutter service Wednesday morning if still silent (I'll show you the draft first).

tasks/TASKS.md

## Open

- [ ] Review and send the Brightpath change order for the parent onboarding flow | status: todo | due: 2026-09-15 | domain: work
      Draft in email drafts (14 hours at the retainer rate). Do not start the work until Marcus signs.
- [ ] Prep Northwind review round 2 deck | status: doing | due: 2026-09-16 | domain: work
- [ ] Choose a gutter cleaning service | status: waiting | due: 2026-09-19 | domain: home
      Quote 1: $140. Waiting on quote 2 (requested 2026-09-08).
- [ ] Decide on the design tool plan before it renews | status: todo | due: 2026-09-30 | domain: money
      Renews 2026-10-03 at $540/yr (team plan). A solo plan would be about $180/yr.

## Done

- [x] Pay Q3 estimated taxes | status: done | due: 2026-09-15 | domain: money
- [x] Request two gutter cleaning quotes | status: done | due: 2026-09-10 | domain: home

Excerpts, lightly trimmed. Every name, amount, and date in the sample is made up.

How it works

Unzip and open

Unzip the download into a folder, cd into it, and start Claude Code with claude.
Run /setup

Pick a preset or choose modules yourself, name your agent, and list your life areas. You see a preview of every file before anything is written.
Fill it in and use it

Answer the short interview, open Claude Code in your new repo, and ask for a briefing or hand it a task.

Then make it yours

What ships is a starting point, not the whole of it. When you want a piece the kit does not include, ask your agent for it and it writes the file into your own repo.

A new command. Ask for a skill file and you get your own slash command, alongside the /capture and /checkup that come with the kit.
A hook that runs by itself. Something tied to an event, like a check before a message goes out or a nudge when a session starts, which is how the kit's anti-slop gate and memory hygiene check work.
A scheduled routine. A job that runs on its own each morning through Claude Code's scheduled agents, the way the routines module sets up the briefing and an inbox sweep.
A specialist agent. One agent for a single area of life or work, like the code reviewer in the dev workflow module; docs/agent-fleet.md covers when a domain has earned one.

You describe what you want in plain language, the agent writes the file into your repo, and it works from your next session on. For the life admin cases there is no code to write.

Safe by default

It asks before outward actions. Autonomy starts at conservative: the agent drafts and proposes, and checks with you before sending, paying, or booking anything.
Nothing sends or pushes unless you choose. Auto-commit is off, the wizard never pushes, and email only goes out if you connect Gmail and pick the highest autonomy level.
Your data stays in your own private repos. The kit has no server and collects nothing. Private notes live in an excluded vault/ folder, and secrets stay in your OS credential manager.
Your files are never overwritten. If a file already exists and differs, setup writes a .kit-new copy beside it for you to merge.

Who it's for

Freelancers

Client work plus the admin around it: briefings, scheduled routines, money and renewal playbooks, and a voice check for client messages.

Starts with: clients, admin, money, home

Households

Home and family logistics: a daily briefing, inbox triage, and every life admin playbook, from bills to gifts.

Starts with: home, money, family, health

Developers

A software workflow: worktrees, commit and merge scripts, review gates, a PR review queue, and cleanup of old worktrees.

Starts with: work, projects, home

Small-business owners

Operations for a small team: briefings and inbox triage, routines, bill and renewal playbooks, and a voice check for customer and vendor messages.

Starts with: operations, customers, finance, vendors, admin

Who built this

Built by David Garrett, a software engineer with ten years of experience.

Offplate started as the setup I use every day to run my day job, a side contract, and my household with Claude Code. I kept refining it until routine admin stopped landing on my plate. This kit is that system, cleaned up so you can start where I am instead of from scratch.

Requirements

A Claude Code subscription
Node.js 18 or newer
git
GitHub CLI (gh), only for the dev workflow and review queue modules

Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Every script is Node, with no shell or PowerShell scripts.

Not sure you have these? The install guide covers all three on each system, and how to check them.

$99

One-time purchase for one person, on any number of your own devices.

Available soon

Off your plate in two weeks, or your money back.

Run /setup, live with it for two weeks. If it has not taken real work off your plate, email support@getoffplate.com within 14 days and you get the full $99 back. You do not have to explain why.

Questions

Is this a subscription?

No. It is a one-time purchase of $99. You download a zip and keep it.

Are updates included?

No. You get the version you bought. Nothing in your repo checks for updates, and everything it writes is yours to edit.

What is the guarantee?

Use it for two weeks. If it has not taken real work off your plate, email support@getoffplate.com within 14 days of purchase and you get the full $99 back. No reason required, and you do not have to prove anything.

Does it work on Windows, macOS, and Linux?

Yes. All hooks and scripts are Node, so the same kit runs on all three.

Does it send email on its own?

No. It can only send email if you connect a Gmail connector in Claude Code and choose the max autonomy level. At conservative or balanced, it drafts and asks first.

Where does my data go?

It stays on your machine and in the private git repos you create. Claude Code itself sends conversation content to Anthropic as it normally does.

Is Offplate affiliated with Anthropic?

No. Offplate is an independent product that runs on Claude Code.