{"slug": "homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code", "title": "Homestead: A framework around Claude Code", "summary": "Joshua built Homestead, an open framework around Claude Code that gives each AI agent a shared channel to see and message other agents, routes incoming notifications to project-specific agents, and pairs a Worker with a Steward that checks output against his standards until every step is done. Homestead is wired to his Mac and phone, and users can paste a single prompt into Claude Code or any agent to build their own version.", "body_md": "And this was the result.\n\nSame interface. Laptop, phone, wherever I am.\n\nPick a channel\n\nThe short version\n\nThe agents couldn’t talk to each other, so I played telephone between them.\n\nEvery agent got a walkie-talkie: it can see who else is working, what they’re on, and talk to them directly. One big project can now split across many agents that sort things out between themselves.\n\nNothing started until I copied a request over by hand.\n\nI built an app that lets Claude Code read my notifications as they arrive. A text, an email, a Slack message — it sees the request before I do.\n\nOne agent doing everything did nothing well.\n\nAlfred handles my notifications and only decides where each one goes. Every project has its own agent that knows exactly how I want that project run.\n\nThe work kept stopping at “mostly done.”\n\nEach project is a Steading. A Worker does the job, and a Steward checks it against my standards and sends it back until every step is actually done — reproduced, fixed, proven, deployed, reply drafted.\n\nWhat it all adds up to.\n\nBy the time a request reaches me, the work is usually already finished and checked. It shows up as one card, on my laptop or my phone, and often all that’s left is a look and a reply.\n\nWhere Homestead is going\n\nNot where it is today. Where I’m taking it.\n\nSome decisions only a person should make. The goal is one screen with you at the center: it hands you the next most important question, with the data you need to answer it right there. You decide, and everything else keeps moving.\n\nOver time, more of the work can move to AI. Some of it never should. Homestead’s job is to take the busywork and leave you the decisions that are actually yours.\n\nFor it to know which question matters most, it has to understand my priorities and every channel the work comes through. That’s the hard part, and it’s what I’m building toward.\n\nI don’t think anyone’s Homestead should look the same. And no one’s should ever be “done.” It should evolve with you.\n\nSay hi\n\nThe best way to reach me.\n\nA quick 15 minutes or a full hour — your call. Weekday mornings 8–9 and evenings 5–6, Eastern.\n\nLoading open times…\n\nIf these times don’t work, just and we can probably make something work.\n\nJust curious?\n\nAlfred is my AI assistant, not me. It answers questions about Homestead whenever you have them, so you don’t have to wait on me.\n\nHi — I'm Alfred, Joshua's assistant. Ask me anything about how Homestead works. Fair warning: I'm an AI, not Joshua.\n\nReplies usually take a minute or two.\n\nBuild your own\n\nEverything Homestead runs on is open. Don’t try to set it up by hand, though. On its own it’s wired to my Mac, my phone and the way I work. Paste one prompt into Claude Code (or any agent) and it builds you your own, then helps you bend it to fit your work.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code", "canonical_source": "https://mullet.town/homestead", "published_at": "2026-10-05 02:15:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 02:42:58.617284+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Homestead", "Claude Code", "Joshua", "Alfred", "Steward", "Worker"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/homestead-a-framework-around-claude-code.jsonld"}}