AI Employees: Build Your Own Autonomous Team
Stop prompting. Deploy agents that work while you sleep.
A guide and template bundle for deploying AI agents that run without you. Includes an 8-chapter PDF guide (~6,200 words) covering agent design principles, constraints, operating rhythm, and failure modes — plus 5 complete agent recipe folders (market research, content creation, quality review, customer support, pipeline orchestration). Each recipe includes a PERSONA.md template, SOUL.md with 7 constraints, a real cron expression, and a 30-minute quickstart guide.
## key-features
- ✓8-chapter PDF guide (~6,200 words) — agent design, operating rhythm, quality constraints, failure modes
- ✓5 complete agent recipe folders with PERSONA.md, SOUL.md (7 constraints), cron schedule, 30-min quickstart
- ✓Market Research Agent — daily scan, signal detection, competitor monitoring
- ✓Content Creation Agent — product descriptions, blog posts, social copy on a schedule
- ✓Quality Review Agent — automated QA checklist runner with pass/fail verdicts
- ✓Customer Support Agent — FAQ responder, ticket router, escalation handler
- ✓Pipeline Orchestration Agent — multi-agent coordination and status reporting
- ✓28 files total — templates only, no live scripts, no API keys required to use as delivered
- ✓Based on the ASTGL production system (documented in James Cruce's April 2026 Substack case study)
- ▸main-guide.md (8-chapter PDF guide, ~6,200 words)
- ▸README.md (requirements, setup overview, getting-started sequence)
- ▸market-research-agent/ (PERSONA.md, SOUL.md, cron-schedule-example.md, 30-min-quickstart.md)
- ▸content-creation-agent/ (PERSONA.md, SOUL.md, cron-schedule-example.md, 30-min-quickstart.md)
- ▸quality-review-agent/ (PERSONA.md, SOUL.md, cron-schedule-example.md, 30-min-quickstart.md)
- ▸customer-support-agent/ (PERSONA.md, SOUL.md, cron-schedule-example.md, 30-min-quickstart.md)
- ▸pipeline-orchestration-agent/ (PERSONA.md, SOUL.md, cron-schedule-example.md, 30-min-quickstart.md)
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