Inside The Machine
Check out

Your setup sheet.

Your parts go into one setup. Say how you run it, how you use it and which computer you have. Then you get your setup sheet. Every step on it is free to read. Enter your email there to get the folder and the prompt.

How you run it

Free, private, works offline.

Claude Code plans and checks. Your computer does the heavy lifting. Needs a paid Claude plan (Pro: $20 a month). Your prompts, and what Claude reads and writes, go to Anthropic.

1Question 1 of 3

Question 1 of 3: What do you want to do?

Pick one or more. Each one adds its own folders to your setup.

2Question 2 of 3

Question 2 of 3: How do you want to use it?

Pick one or more. One folder sets them all up.

Which chat app?

iMessage needs a Mac that stays on. On a Windows or Linux PC, pick another app.

3Question 3 of 3

Question 3 of 3: What machine do you have?

System
Memory (RAM)

Gaming PC? Use the graphics card’s memory (VRAM).

Not sure? Pick your machine

Picking one sets your system and memory above. A graphics card counts by its own memory.

Older Mac, or a laptop without a graphics card? Use the memory buttons above.

Mac
Apple menu → About This Mac. Read Memory.
Windows
Settings → System → About. Read Installed RAM.
Graphics card
Task Manager → Performance → GPU. Read Dedicated GPU memory.

Linux: run free -h and read the total on the Mem line.

Or scan it

One read-only command reads your memory, chip and graphics card. It prints a link to your setup sheet. Nothing is uploaded.

Mac and Linux · Terminal
curl -fsSL https://insidethemachine.ai/scan.sh | sh
Windows · PowerShell
irm https://insidethemachine.ai/scan.ps1 | iex

Read the script first on your setup page.

Your parts

Answer questions 1 and 2. Then our picks show here.

Pick what you want to do (one or more).

Agent view · text/markdown · or send Accept: text/markdown

Check out: your setup sheet 


URL: https://insidethemachine.ai/checkout
The home page (https://insidethemachine.ai/) is the free shop: check what fits your memory, add parts to "My setup", then check out here. The cart ticks its packs and picks its brain; you answer the rest. Answer 3 questions. Get your setup sheet, step by step: the local model, the app, the phone channel, images and voice (local or cloud), the tools (MCP servers), the steps for your job and a starter AGENTS.md. On the sheet, one email gives you the folder (with MY-CART.md for your cart) and the prompt.
Status: every step is not tested yet, until we run it.

How you run it (mode: a switch above question 1) 


- **Fully local** (`local`, the default): Free, private, works offline.
- **Claude conducts** (`claude`): Claude Code plans and checks. Your computer does the heavy lifting. Needs a paid Claude plan. Pro is $20 a month ($17 a month if you pay for a year): https://claude.com/pricing (read 2026-10-18). What leaves your computer: your prompts, and what Claude reads and writes, go to Anthropic. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage

Question 1 of 3: What do you want to do? (pack: pick one or more, up to 5) 


- **Personal assistant**: Personal assistant (`assistant`). Reminders, notes and web look-ups. Use it in a chat window, or text it from your phone.
- **Social growth**: Social media growth, inside the rules (`social`). Turn work you already made into more posts, by each platform's rules.
- **Cold email (Instantly)**: Cold email with Instantly, done properly (`cold-email`). A few honest, researched business emails, sent through Instantly with your OK. (Not in the page's list of choices; a link with pack=cold-email still opens it.)
- **Coding + game dev**: Coding and game dev helper (`code`). A coding helper that builds a small game with you, on your computer.
- **Creator studio**: Creator studio (`creator`). Make images, short clips and voice-overs on your own computer.

Several packs make one sheet, one app, one local model and one workspace folder; each pack adds its rooms.

Question 2 of 3: How do you want to use it? (way: pick one or more) 


- **Text it from your phone** (`phone`): Message it like a friend: Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage or Signal. In Claude mode: Control Claude Code from the Claude app on your phone (Remote Control). Telegram, Discord and iMessage channels are a research preview and may change. (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control)
- **A chat window on your computer** (`chat`): Type to it in a window, like ChatGPT, but it runs on your computer.
- **In the terminal** (`terminal`): Type to it in the Terminal app, inside the folder you work in.
- **Running 24/7** (`always`): It works on a schedule while you sleep.

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