Framework Reboot
hoponthestack

I'm rethinking the processes and frameworks behind productivity and operational efficiency in the age of AI. I write about the ideas here — and ship the tools that fall out of them under Framework Reboot.

The log
NOTE
Jul 2026
commandlane 0.5 makes agents installable

A changelog note — external agents now install in one click, and you can keep several on hand and switch between them mid-flow.

ESSAY
Jun 2026
Operational efficiency is a design problem, not a tooling problem

Most teams don't lack tools. They lack a shared model of the work.

RELEASE
May 2026
pmstate 1.0 — project state as a first-class primitive

The first stable release. State snapshots are now content-addressed, with a typed schema for work items and a real diff engine.

ESSAY
Apr 2026
anvil-bridge and the case for operational glue

The integrations between your tools are where operational knowledge quietly lives — and quietly rots.

NOTE
Mar 2026
commandlane joins the Framework Reboot stack

A short note on why a keyboard-first command surface belongs in this family.

ESSAY
Feb 2026
Why I'm rebooting the framework

Framework Reboot is a bet that the frameworks we inherited for managing work weren't built for a world with AI in the loop.

RELEASE
Jan 2026
anvil-bridge 0.3 — typed connectors

Connectors are now fully typed, with retry and backoff on every bridge. One breaking change to the invoke API.

NOTE
Dec 2025
commandlane 0.4 ships palette actions

A quick changelog note — the command palette can now trigger multi-step actions, not just navigate.

ESSAY
Feb 2025
The Framework Evaluation Matrix: Assessing Productivity Systems in the AI Era

A diagnostic for knowing when your productivity system has quietly stopped serving you — and what to do about it.

ESSAY
Feb 2025
Building the Operations layer: Notion-Agent Integration for the OPERA Framework (Part 1)

Turning the OPERA operations layer from an idea into a working Notion-and-agents integration you can actually run.

ESSAY
Feb 2025
Rethinking PARA in the AI Era: The Evolution to the OPERA Framework

PARA organized my digital life for years. Here is why the arrival of AI meant even a system that good had to grow an operations layer.