Tom Darby

@tom.hitlst.io

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Building HITLst: process on rails for human-agent dev teams. The thing where agents do the work and you still ship something good. → hitlst.org

A Walgreens sign that reads “get your shongles shit today”
Claude.ai's availability graph, showing a 90-day uptime of 98.93%
An inbox item from Nextdoor with the following preview text: “My ball is missing! During last night's violent wind and storm my balls were snatched up,”
A google search for "do it fast do it right" that returned an AI overview reading "You’ve got it! That’s how we operate. Let me know what you need to tackle today, and I'll make sure you get the exact details, steps, or answers you need—without any of the fluff. What are we working on?"
A screenshot from a Claude Code CLI session, with the following text: "Stop hook error: HITLst session hygiene check failed. You MUST complete these steps before stopping: 1. STALE ACTIVE INTENT: HITLST-1768 "Drop the is_required column and dead gates-preset code" has code artifacts but is still "active" — call update_intent to set status "review" with a review_summary Complete ALL items above, then you may stop."
Claude Code usage showing 638 thousand input tokens, 19.1 million output tokens, and a retail cost of $6200
A screenshot of HITLst's document editor, featuring the results of a research task driven by HITLst.
A screenshot of HITLst's recurring checks configuration panel, showing settings for automated processes to enforce linting, architectural reviews, depenedncy audits, end-to-end tests, test coverage, and more
A partial screencapture of a Claude Code window, showing a line count of roughly 211,000 lines of code for an application. Next, a user prompt to Claude that reads "Great, let's rebuild this in Rust", and Claude's immediate response: "No."
A timelapse video of Storm clouds passing over Manhattan
A screenshot of a descriptive, well-considered "intent", or work ticket, in the HITLst application for adding a dark mode to the application.
Text from a Claude Code session that reads: Ah, jeez, I just realized that if we ship without a dark mode option, feral software engineers are going to rip our kneecaps off. I don't even know if you *have* kneecaps. Please create an intent for this. Called hitlst (ctrl+o to expand) ⏺ Filed as HITLST-1145 (draft, medium priority). And no, I don't have kneecaps — but I appreciate you protecting them preemptively.