Install your AI Chief of Staff.
No coding. No terminal expertise. If you can make a folder and copy-paste a sentence, you can have this running in about 15 minutes. Here's exactly how — in plain English.
Make a folder on your computer
Create a new, empty folder anywhere — your Desktop is perfect. Name it whatever you like ("AI Chief of Staff" works great). This is the home where your assistant will live.
Open Claude Code in that folder
Claude Code is the free app from Anthropic that reads the framework and becomes your Chief of Staff. It's the engine — you'll talk to it like a person.
Don't have it yet? It's a quick one-time setup → Get Claude Code (5-min guide) → Already set up? Just open Claude Code and point it at the folder you made in Step 1.
Paste this message to Claude and press Enter
You don't run any code. You just tell Claude what you want — in plain English — and it handles the technical part: downloading the framework, setting it up, and starting your first conversation. Copy this, paste it into Claude Code, and hit Enter:
Download the AI Chief of Staff starter from github.com/brandonpassley/ai-chief-of-staff-starter into this folder, then walk me through setting it up.
Comfortable with a terminal and want to do it yourself? Run npx degit brandonpassley/ai-chief-of-staff-starter ai-chief-of-staff (or git clone the repo) instead.
That's the whole thing. Claude pulls in the files, asks you a few questions about you and your business, and you're up and running. From here on, it's just a conversation — that's the entire point.
Rather not do it alone? Hop on a free 15-minute setup call and I'll screen-share you through it.
Book a setup call →It's plain text and markdown files Claude reads. Nothing executes or installs on your computer — there's nothing to "run."
Everything stays on your machine. No account, no telemetry, no data sent anywhere by the framework.
Every file is public on GitHub under MIT. You (or anyone) can read all of it before downloading — nothing's hidden.
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