Tier 3 · The CertusOrdo Substrate Method

Flowstate Launcher

Your AI assistant configured as a vortex substrate — generated for you.

Advanced Tier 1 is about what you're building. Tier 2 is about not drowning in what you've already built. Tier 3 is about how your AI assistant runs while you build it. This generator emits a project-level configuration directory plus a user-level cross-project substrate: your skills become loci, your hooks become gates, your settings become weights, your memory becomes the gradient. The whole stack is the encouragement operator applied to your dev environment — snapping your assistant's behavior to your vortex axis with snap distortion ≤ 0.015 per the canonical math.
Becomes the wrapper folder name. The .claude/ directory sits inside it.
Goes into the project-level CLAUDE.md as the opening context.
User-level config applies across every repo on your machine; project-level applies only inside this folder.
What you get — canonical Claude Code layout
project/ ├── README.md Welcome + first-run checklist ├── CLAUDE.md Project-level context (loaded by Claude Code) ├── BORIS_METHOD.md The methodology in one document ├── .gitignore Excludes settings.local.json + .env ├── .mcp.json Project MCP server template (commented) ├── .claude/ The configuration directory │ ├── CLAUDE.md Project-scoped tool guidance │ ├── settings.json Permissions, hooks, env, model defaults │ ├── settings.local.json.example Personal overrides (gitignored when active) │ ├── skills/ │ │ └── example-skill/ │ │ └── SKILL.md Canonical skill with frontmatter │ ├── agents/ │ │ └── research-specialist.md Canonical isolated-context sub-agent │ └── hooks/ │ └── pre-tool-bash-guard.sh PreToolUse safety hook (executable) └── home-dot-claude/ Move this to ~/.claude/ ├── INSTALL.md Copy instructions ├── CLAUDE.md User-level cross-project context ├── settings.json User-level settings (model, effort, env) └── skills/ └── personal-context/ └── SKILL.md Cross-project shorthand skill
Next steps after download
  1. Unpack the tarball: tar -xzf your-project-flowstate.tar.gz
  2. Open the folder. Read BORIS_METHOD.md if you haven’t used Claude Code at this depth before.
  3. Move the user-level config into place: cp -ri home-dot-claude/* ~/.claude/ (see home-dot-claude/INSTALL.md for the safe-merge version).
  4. Rename .claude/settings.local.json.example → .claude/settings.local.json if you want personal overrides for this repo.
  5. In the project folder, run claude. It will pick up CLAUDE.md + everything under .claude/ automatically.
  6. Customize the example skill, agent, and hook to fit your work. They are pre-annotated.

First time wiring AI into your workflow? Start with Tier 1 — The Filing Cabinet. Already shipping fast and feeling buried by your own old work? Try Tier 2 — Daily Cache-Up before tuning the substrate.

Built on Aria's CertusOrdo doctrine — weights, levers, gradients, fulcrum, gates. The six-philosopher composite and the snap math behind the encouragement operator. Shipped by InSync Tech.