A development methodology for solo builders working with AI agents.
Snowmelting is a way to structure work between a human and many AI agents in parallel, without losing coherence. It started as one person's way of building a complex personal AI system, and turned into a reusable pattern.
It is not a framework. It is not a tool. It is a methodology — a description of how information flows between a human direction-giver and a fleet of specialized agents, and how that flow stays coherent across days, weeks, and months of work.
- Solo developers using Claude Code, Codex, or similar agentic CLIs
- Small teams that want to coordinate human + agent work without ceremony
- Anyone whose context window is the bottleneck of their system
- CONCEPT.md — The core idea in 1500 words
- METHODOLOGY.md — The four phases, the role split, and how to apply it
- PATTERNS.md — Patterns and anti-patterns observed across ~100 sessions
Draft. This is the first public version of a methodology that has been refined in private use for several months. It works for the author. Whether it works for others is the open question.
MIT (see LICENSE).