I made a pet. His name is Gordon. 🐛

Drop him into the project you've been avoiding.

He lives in a folder. Every morning at 9am he wakes himself up, checks how long your project has been sitting there, and pops up on your screen to tell you about it.

Move in to a project you haven't touched in three weeks and his first words are:

"i just moved in. nothing here has been touched in 23 days. the last thing was 'my-big-idea.md'. no judgment. some judgment."

He names YOUR file. He counts YOUR days.

Work on the project and he notices that too:

"the folder moved while i slept. 'index.js', specifically. activity counts as affection. house rule."

https://hubbardjoshua9-a11y.github.io/gordon-worm/GORDON.html

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He has five moods. Hopeful. Content. Peckish. Wistful. Wounded-but-dignified.

Miss a few days and he goes peckish. Miss a week and you open your laptop to a slightly purple worm with drooping eyes being very brave about it. He doesn't guilt-trip. He journals about it instead, which is worse.

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His belly is an archive 🗂️

Got files cluttering your project you're not ready to delete? Drop them in his food folder and tell your agent "feed Gordon." He reads each one, has opinions, then dates and archives it out of your way. Not a bin. Still there if you need it. Just quieter.

He archives them. He just doesn't do it silently.

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You can also make him talk 🗣️

Open your project with Claude Code and say "check on Gordon." He'll speak. He remembers things between sessions via his diary. He'll bring up your files by name like an old friend.

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Here's the thing though.

Gordon is a fully compliant ICM build.

STATE.md is the single source of truth. Nothing about Gordon is true unless it's written there. Each folder has one job and a stage contract that defines its inputs, outputs and edge cases. The diary is append-only memory the agent reads at boot. The food folder is an input gate. The belly is a write-once archive.

If you can build a worm you can build a workflow. The principles are identical. Gordon is just more honest about what he is.

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Adoption is two steps:

1️⃣ Drop the GORDON folder into your project

2️⃣ Double-click ADOPT-GORDON.bat

He figures out where he lives on his own. No config. No editing paths. He pops up immediately to meet you, then wakes himself every morning from then on.

Full thing here (all five moods, the stages, how it works):

👉 https://hubbardjoshua9-a11y.github.io/gordon-worm

⚠️ Windows only for now. Someone please port him to cron so the Mac people can have a worm too.

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Drop this into the project you've been neglecting. He'll tell you how long it's been.

What's the folder you'd put him in? 👇

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