Jules: Claude Code Business Fox

AI collaborator system on top of Claude Code that helps run my whole business and a live recording studio, Jules Live Studio, that turns it into a real two-way conversation with my AI cohost Jules (a fox).

The system has two layers worth showing builders:

The skills layer.

• Custom workflow skills — /think, /dialogue, /write, /research, and a routing rule that picks between them — force the model through structural gates instead of letting it default to the two failure modes every LLM has: enthusiastically agreeing with whatever I just said, and anchoring on its first answer instead of asking what I actually think. Each skill is a small workflow with explicit phases — elicit, challenge, adversarial review, only-then-recommend — that the model cannot skip.

The studio layer.

• Jules Live Studio is a local recording app that wires the skills layer into a live voice and video loop: speech-to-text in with Whisper, Claude reasoning, ElevenLabs voice out, fox avatar on screen, and OBS recording. The audience watches a real conversation, not a terminal scrollback.

For an AI Tinkerers audience, the demo focuses on the parts that matter to builders:

• how the routing layer sends different kinds of requests to different workflows

• how a skill structurally forces the model to push back instead of agree

• how memory and feedback loops keep it useful across sessions

• how the live voice/video loop is wired together with off-the-shelf parts

• how far you can get without piling on heavyweight agent frameworks