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A cookbook from messy notes

Turn six kitchen scribbles into a printable little book without inventing a single amount.

What the agent made

Ran it for real with Claude Code 2.1.292 and OMP 18.8.5 on 2026-10-08, in an empty session with no saved memory. Your result will differ.

Open what Claude Code made, full screen

The same prompt in OMP made its own version: open what OMP made. Two runs, two different results: that is normal.

Make your own

  1. Get the files

    Download the practice folder (ZIP)

    Unzip it: you get a folder called cli-practice with 6 fictional files. Six fictional, untidy recipe text notes.

    01-pine-lantern-soup.txt02-orbit-skillet-flatbread.txt03-moonwell-rice.txt04-copper-comet-carrots.txt05-velvet-pond-salad.txt06-starlit-pears.txt

  2. Open your agent in that folder

    Open a terminal in cli-practice and type claude or omp --approval-mode always-ask. First time? Set up in about five minutes, with steps for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

  3. Paste this prompt

    Read the six .txt recipe notes in this practice folder. Make one self-contained cookbook.html: linked contents, each recipe on a separate printed page, ingredients, numbered steps, source filename, and blank notes space. Preserve every quantity and temperature exactly; clearly mark missing amounts, unclear steps, and uncertain times instead of guessing. Include print CSS and a visible list of unresolved questions. Use ASCII punctuation throughout. No external assets or network calls. Do not change input files, leave this folder, install packages, use APIs, or fetch anything.

    The prompt asks the agent to stay in this folder; it cannot enforce that. Read each file change and command before you approve it.

  4. Check it yourself

    Open cli-practice/cookbook.html in your web browser (double-click it), then:

    Human check: Compare amounts in all six notes against the pages; find the flagged missing amounts and times, then open Print Preview and check each recipe starts on its own page.

    When we checked the recording above: Compared all six recipe ingredient amounts and 400 F/350 F cooking temperatures with fictional samples; gaps in salt, water, pepper, simmer time and margin questions visibly flagged. Opened both HTML files in Chromium, checked contents anchors, printed to PDF: Claude 8 pages and omp 7 pages with each recipe beginning on its own page. No changed inputs or external assets.

Why an agent, not a chat window

An agent reads several local files, reconciles their untidy formats, and builds a linked, print-ready document without manual copy and paste.