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  "html": "https://insidethemachine.ai/checkout",
  "md": "https://insidethemachine.ai/checkout.md",
  "title": "Check out: your setup sheet",
  "url": "https://insidethemachine.ai/checkout",
  "fields": {
    "Status": "every step is not tested yet, until we run it."
  },
  "intro": [
    "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."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "How you run it (mode: a switch above question 1)",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [],
      "items": [
        "**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"
      ],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Question 1 of 3: What do you want to do? (pack: pick one or more, up to 5)",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [
        "Several packs make one sheet, one app, one local model and one workspace folder; each pack adds its rooms."
      ],
      "items": [
        "**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."
      ],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Question 2 of 3: How do you want to use it? (way: pick one or more)",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [],
      "items": [
        "**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.",
        "Several ways make one combined setup: one folder with one SETUP.md for all of them, and a link to each way's own sheet. URL: the way ids joined by \"+\", in this order: phone, chat, terminal, always (for example https://insidethemachine.ai/start/assistant/phone+terminal/mac-16gb).",
        "Phone only, fully local: which chat app? Telegram (telegram, the easiest, the default), WhatsApp (whatsapp), iMessage (imessage, needs a Mac), Signal (signal). The sheet has all of them; add ?ch=<app> to its URL to open that app's steps first on the page (the .md and .json list every app). A Claude sheet has no chat-app choice."
      ],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Question 3 of 3: What machine do you have?",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [],
      "items": [
        "System: mac (Mac), windows (Windows PC), linux (Linux PC).",
        "Memory (RAM), with the URL id: 8 GB (8), 16 GB (16), 24 GB (24), 32 GB (32), 48 GB (48), 64 GB (64), 96 GB (96), 128 GB (128), 192 GB (192), 256 GB (256), 512 GB (512). Default 16 GB. Gaming PC? Use the graphics card's memory (VRAM). Not one of these sizes? Use the largest one at or below yours (36 GB counts as 32, a 12 GB graphics card as 8).",
        "Not sure? Pick your computer from our machine list (machines.json): it sets the system and the memory size it counts as. Older Mac, or a laptop without a graphics card? Use the memory buttons above. Or look it up: Mac: Apple menu → About This Mac → Memory. Windows: Settings → System → About → Installed RAM. Graphics card: Task Manager → Performance → GPU → Dedicated GPU memory. Linux: run free -h and read the total on the Mem line.",
        "Or scan it: curl -fsSL https://insidethemachine.ai/scan.sh | sh (Mac, Linux) or irm https://insidethemachine.ai/scan.ps1 | iex (Windows PowerShell). Read-only: it reads your memory, chip and graphics card, and prints a link to your setup sheet (https://insidethemachine.ai/start/go?…). Nothing is uploaded. Read the script first: https://insidethemachine.ai/my"
      ],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Your parts",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [
        "Under question 3 the page shows our picks for your answers. Change any part, or just click Build. Three parts:",
        "The choices as JSON: https://insidethemachine.ai/api/parts?packs=<a,b>&mode=<local|claude>&way=<way>&os=<os>&gb=<gb>[&app=<the other choice>][&brain=<a model id>]. Parts change the sheet URL only when they differ from our picks: https://insidethemachine.ai/start/<packs joined by +>/<way>/<os>-<gb>gb[/claude]/with/<app>/<brain>/<tools joined by +, or none>. A part that is not a choice for that sheet falls back to our pick.",
        "Example (Coding + game dev, terminal, Mac 32 GB): our picks are Qwen3.8 27B in Hermes Agent. With Qwen3.6 27B in OpenCode and one add-on: https://insidethemachine.ai/start/code/terminal/mac-32gb/with/opencode/qwen3.6-27b/git"
      ],
      "items": [
        "**A. Brain** (the AI model): our pick first, then up to three other models that meet the same rule for the app (tool calling, context window, an Ollama download, fits your usable memory), smartest first. A model brought from the Explore shop's \"My setup\" cart (https://insidethemachine.ai/explore) is added as a choice when it meets the same rule. Each shows its score as a share of the best paid AI and the memory it needs. Each line about a model is built only from models.json (its maker, whether it reads pictures, whether it is smaller than our pick).",
        "**B. App** (the helper you talk to): Hermes Agent is our pick for every pack and every way. The other choice is the app the packs used before. OpenCode is shown as \"Coding specialist\": Which one codes better? We have not measured it yet. We test both on the same tasks from 10 Nov 2026. In Claude conducts mode the app is Claude Code, with no other choice.",
        "**C. Tools** (what it can do for you): \"Already in <app>\" lists what the app has built in, so it is never offered as an add-on. \"Unclear\" means the app's own pages disagree; we do not pick a side. \"Add to it\" lists the tools (MCP servers) the app can add for your packs, all ticked. Untick one and its step leaves the sheet. On phone and 24/7 sheets, the app's own tools that its lock step takes away from the bot are not listed as built in; where the bot needs one (files, memory), the matching server is an add-on."
      ],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Your setup sheet",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [
        "URL: https://insidethemachine.ai/start/<packs joined by +>/<way>/<os>-<gb>gb[/claude] (add .md or .json for agents). Packs go in the order of the list above (assistant, social, cold-email, code, creator); another order or a repeat is redirected to the right URL. No /claude at the end means fully local; a single pack with no /claude is the original URL. 31 sets of packs × 4 ways × 33 machines (3 systems × 11 memory sizes) × 2 modes = 8,184 sheets.",
        "Examples: https://insidethemachine.ai/start/assistant/phone/mac-16gb (one pack, local) · https://insidethemachine.ai/start/assistant+code/terminal/mac-32gb/claude (two packs, Claude conducts) · https://insidethemachine.ai/start/social+cold-email+creator/chat/windows-24gb (three packs, local)",
        "From answers: https://insidethemachine.ai/start/go?mode=<local|claude>&pack=<pack>&pack=<pack>&way=<way>&os=<os>&gb=<gb> (pack repeated or comma-separated) redirects to the sheet."
      ],
      "items": [],
      "tables": []
    },
    {
      "heading": "Everything else",
      "level": 2,
      "text": [
        "The free shop (130 open text models, 36 apps, 56 machines, 268 tools, 6 recipes): https://insidethemachine.ai/ (https://insidethemachine.ai/index.md). Business recipes for solo creators: https://insidethemachine.ai/build. New to local AI? The basic words in 5 minutes: https://insidethemachine.ai/start-here.md. The full site index for agents: https://insidethemachine.ai/llms.txt"
      ],
      "items": [],
      "tables": []
    }
  ]
}