Campfire Guide 1
🔥 Master OverviewCampfire Protocol is a family of tools and guides that help you preserve continuity across AI sessions, agents, and teams. Start where you are. Scale when you need to.Campfire EcosystemLite (free) → CLI (free) → Field Guide ($24) → Standard ($29) → Pro ($49)Start here. Automate. Go deep. Coordinate. Standardize. Team & Enterprise — coming soon🏕️ 1. Campfire Lite — The PrimerStart here — free, five-minute setup.Problem: Every new AI session starts from zero. You waste time re-explaining context, lose hard-won lessons, and watch momentum evaporate between conversations.Promise: Preserve the continuity of your work with three simple files and one repeatable daily practice. No database, no API, no complexity.Your First Win: Create your campfire/ folder and complete your first full practice (read → work → write one note) in under five minutes.Best for: Solo builders, developers, and researchers who want their AI work to feel coherent and cumulative.What’s next? → Sonic Screwdriver CLI (free) — automate your audits → The Campfire Field Guide ($24) — master the full system🛠️ 2. Sonic Screwdriver CLI — The Terminal CompanionFree, zero-dependency CLI — for power users who love the terminal.Problem: Manually checking your Campfire folder, verifying file health, and creating context snapshots is tedious and easy to skip — especially in air-gapped or high-security environments.Promise: A fast, local, zero-dependency terminal companion that automates pre-flight audits, context snapshots, and guided write-backs — pure Python standard library, no internet connection ever required.Your First Win: Run python3 campfire_cli.py --audit and instantly see whether your workspace is properly structured, which layer you’re on, and the status tag of your latest Handoff.Best for: Developers and power users who want maximum control, air-gap safety, and command-line speed.What’s next? → The Campfire Field Guide ($24) — the complete operating manual📖 3. The Campfire Field Guide — The Deep PrimerYou see here: $24 — the complete operating manual for agent continuity.Problem: Lite gets you started, but the “why” behind the system — and the judgment to apply it well — takes more than a quickstart. Without the deeper principles, folders drift, files bloat, and the habit fades.Promise: A 60-page manual covering the full philosophy, the Five Principles, all three core practices with real examples, Handoff and Decision rituals, Role Blueprints, Approval Gates, three complete workflow walkthroughs, the 7-day implementation plan, and the file maintenance rules that keep your campfire readable for months.The Field Guide is the companion book to every tier. The principles don’t change as you scale — the depth does.Your First Win: Complete the 7-day implementation plan and end the week with a working folder, your first handoff, and a measurable drop in session restart time.Best for: Anyone serious about making Campfire a durable habit — from solo Lite users to teams evaluating Standard and Pro.What’s next? → Campfire Standard ($29) — put Handoffs and Decisions into practice📋 4. Campfire Standard — The Coordination Layer$29 — for serious individuals and small teams who need explicit coordination.Problem: When multiple agents or sessions touch the same project, coordination breaks down. Handoffs become vague, decisions disappear into chat history, and hidden assumptions create costly rework.Promise: Reliable coordination through explicit Handoffs, a shared Decision Log, and clear status tracking — so every agent knows exactly where things stand and why.Lite gives you continuity. Standard gives you coordination.Your First Win: Execute a clean Builder → Reviewer handoff using the four canonical status tags — [READY], [BLOCKED], [NEEDS REVIEW], [IN PROGRESS] — and watch the receiving agent continue without asking a single clarifying question.Best for: Serious individual operators and small teams who need traceable decisions and reliable state transfer.What’s next? → Campfire Pro ($49) — add Role Blueprints, Workflows, Gates, and the Historian🧠 5. Campfire Pro — The Repeatability Layer$49 — for operators and technical teams that need repeatability, safety boundaries, and durable memory.Problem: Ad-hoc workflows and one-off prompts don’t scale. Quality slips, safety checks get skipped, and valuable patterns never become repeatable.Promise: Standardize your operations with named Workflow Blueprints, explicit Role Blueprints, mandatory Approval Gates, and Historian Lite — preserving the cognitive lineage of your work across months, not just sessions.Standard reduces repeated explanations. Pro turns successful workflows into repeatable operating procedures. Includes The Campfire Field Guide free ($24 value).Your First Win: Define your first Role Blueprint and create an Approval Gate that forces agents to halt and ask before taking any destructive or public action.Best for: Serious operators, leads, and technical teams that need robust repeatability, air-gap-ready workflows, and durable memory across people and agents.What’s next? → Campfire Team — shared governance for 2–10 persons. Coming soon; Pro buyers get first access.
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