Three weeks ago I set up a loop on a $13/month GCP VM and went to sleep. By morning it had built, packaged, and queued Claude Code development guides for Gumroad. Autonomously. While respecting a set of rules I call OPERATOR.md.
This is the writeup: architecture, what worked, what surprised me, and the hard constraints that kept it from going sideways.
The Problem
I had a pile of Claude Code config work I'd done across projects. Hooks, CLAUDE.md patterns, MCP server setups, workflow playbooks. Useful stuff that takes real hours to assemble. The kind of thing developers pay $20-40 for on Gumroad because assembling it yourself is tedious even if you know how.
The question: could I systematically convert that knowledge base into polished, verifiable products without hand-holding every step?
