I've been using the VS Code/Claude infrastructure and hit a snag today on reading file limits. One of my processes is to create an optin page for a PDF file. Part of the process is... to read the PDF file.. which I seem to be hitting a file limit size of 20MB. Anyone know how to get around this restriction? Or a better way for me to use the system I'm trying to build? It's quite frustrating since it doesn't seem to be an issue in the Claude web app.

@Ry Mac did a GREAT job simplifying things down. Recommend taking a look. Has his own group too! https://skool.com/buildmarketclose/about

I'm struggling with something I hope the amazing brains in this group can help me figure out. When I'm creating this structure I've seen Claude decide not to follow the process. It takes shortcuts, makes things up, and tries to cut corners instead of follow the designed flow. When I asked why this failure keeps happening here's what it said... "Straight answer: you can reduce this failure rate significantly, but a markdown skill file cannot guarantee compliance, because it's a request I interpret, not code that executes. That's the ceiling you're up against, and pretending otherwise would be the same failure mode again with extra steps." Here's the structure I have already: Marketing - Claude.md - -- Writing-Room - ----- Email I think I need to breakup the steps in email more because it seems to want to not pull things like copywriting or the humanizer. Anyone else seen something like this?

There is a question that keeps circling: agent, role, folder, LLM, what's actually what. @Jordan Shaw (engine, agent, role) gave a pretty darn good answer. @Scott Smith follow-up is a great question: how does one ICM runs multiple agents or roles? Tomorrow, 1:00 PM ET, live on the Watering Hole, I'm pulling up the ICM built to teach exactly this. Dunder Mifflin. Paper company, five rooms, one front desk. Pam runs the front desk. She routes each request to the room built for it: Jim's for anything touching the account relationship, Oscar's for billing, Kelly's for inbound questions, Angela's for scheduling and process gaps, Creed's for anything that just landed in the inbox and needs filing first. Same LLM under every hat. Different folder, different context, different output, depending on which room picked it up. Same architecture running my own firm. Duke at the front desk, twenty-some specialist rooms behind him, rebuilt here on a cast most people already know so the mechanic is visible without client folders in the way. Live only, not recorded. All are welcome; hope to see you there.

The full animation workflow: Script → Spec → Build → Render. Where'd you land after watching?