James Brady

AIAlchemist

Systems, protocols, and programs on a mathematical substrate. Turning raw AI into tools that work.

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What is AI Alchemy?

The system-story overview: models, tools, memory, skills, and workflows compounding into leverage.

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Volumes

Three paths into the work

The Primer

How coding systems actually work. Code, the stack, AI agents, skills, and MCP — explained for humans.

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The Manuscript

A curated catalog of the best tools, frameworks, and MCP servers. Each one vetted. Each one real.

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The Workshop

Three practical guides. Set up an AI agent. Install skills. Connect MCP servers. Build something.

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Philosophy

Honest documentation of what works

Alchemy was the predecessor to chemistry — people experimenting with combinations of materials, trying to understand transformation at a fundamental level. The ones who succeeded were the ones who documented their experiments honestly.

The tools that are actually useful, the patterns that actually scale, the workflows that actually save time. No hype. No vaporware.

The substrate is mathematics. The medium is code. The goal is tools that work.

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