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Markdown with AI
The quiet skill underneath all of this: writing simple text files that tell an AI who you are and what you're building, so it helps you make your own tools instead of you renting someone else's. It's plain, it's yours, and it's where owning your own software starts.
Why this matters
Plain text is the most powerful thing you own
Markdown is just text with a little structure: headings, lists, the odd bit of emphasis. It costs nothing, it opens anywhere, and no company owns it. When you hand an AI a well-written Markdown file about your life, your values and what you're trying to do, it stops guessing and starts genuinely helping.
That's the trick behind building your own software: you don't need to be a coder, you need to be clear. A handful of files, a profile.md about you, an aura.md for your bigger picture, an AGENTS.md for what you want an AI agent to do, becomes a stack that's custom to you, that you keep, and that grows as you do. No subscription, no lock-in, your words staying yours.
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Build your own AI context file
Fill this in and generate a starter file to hand to any AI tool. It runs entirely in your browser, saves only on your own device, and sends nothing anywhere. This is the whole idea in miniature: you build it, you own it, it stays with you.
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