A free AI rebuilt
the tool everyone
pays for.

Get my computer ready and install REA from its official GitHub.
Ask me one question: my use case.
Install only the engines I need, and run REA's health check until it passes.

# Two rules at the top of every prompt:
# 1. Do everything yourself. Only ask me what you can't decide alone.
# 2. Before you install or use anything, print one line saying what it is and why.

Set up the project and study Claude Code with REA.
Turn on git, then write agents.md — the rules — and features.md — the brief.
Use REA to study the Claude app and write spec.md:
every feature, one test each, and a three-part build plan.

# agents.md   → the handbook the AI reads at the start of every session
# features.md → one page: our own engine, our own window, on free keys
# spec.md     → the report: every feature, how it works, a test for each, the plan

Read agents.md, spec.md and our saved versions.
Build the next unfinished part of the plan, one feature at a time,
and test each one with the self-check.

# Same prompt every time. The last four words are the whole trick.
# The AI is not allowed to claim success. The robot hand decides.

Read our files and saved versions.
Check any unsaved changes and carry on where the work stopped.

# Used when a free model dies mid-build (DeepSeek, 13-hour reset).
# Nothing is lost because every finished feature is already in git.

Make the model picker scroll and add a search box.
Then build what's missing: /compact, helper agents, MCP, hooks,
and retry on rate limits. Run the full self-check after each.

# A gap gets a test, not just a patch — so the next build can't break it.
# Rate-limit retry: switch model on daily caps, wait and retry on slow-downs.

At the start of every chat, tell the model which model and provider
it is running on, today's date and the OS, and to answer honestly
when asked. Update it when I switch model.

# Without this, Kiln insisted it was "not powered by any separate
# large language model". It was. It just had no idea which one.

Use REA to study igloo.inc. Print which tool or engine you use before
each step. Save the 3D models, textures and sounds it loads, and explain
every scene in your own words in reverse.md.

# Then, the rebuild:
Read reverse.md and rebuild the site scene by scene in your own code.
Never load the site's own JavaScript. Plain HTML and three.js, checking
each scene in the browser before moving on.

# Then, the receipts:
Take screenshots of the real site and our copy at the same moments, after
loading and through the scroll. Put them on one compare page, real on the
left, ours on the right, and tell me what matches.