Drone
The harvester. Whatever you share from your phone — screenshots, reels, PDFs, links — comes back as a structured report ready for review.
When Emil sees something interesting on his phone — a tool recommendation, a reel, a PDF someone sent him, a screenshot of a tweet — he taps Share → Send to Overmind. That's the whole input gesture.
A small worker called the drone harvests it on his Mac. It figures out what the thing actually is, what it claims, where it might fit in his stack, and what questions remain unanswered. It writes all of that down in a structured report.
Twice a week Emil reviews the reports with Claude and decides what's worth adopting. The drone never decides — it only gathers. Decisions stay with the human who has to live with them.
Two stages. Stage one — capture: an iPhone Shortcut shares any input — image, PDF, text, URL, video — into an iCloud Drive folder at Overmind/drone/. A launchd job (com.emil.overmind-drone) runs every six hours, reads new items, and branches by file extension.
Stage two — extract: each item goes to Claude Haiku 4.5 — vision for images, text for everything else. The prompt is deliberately narrow: extract tool, category, pitch, claims, where_it_fits, open_questions. No verdict. PDFs and videos are tagged [MANUAL] and skipped at the API layer for the human to open.
Reports append to inbox/drone-YYYY-MM-DD.md. Telegram pings when ≥3 entries are queued. The actual adopt / defer / monitor / skip decision happens later in the /upgrades-review skill, where Opus reasons against Emil's stack with the human in the loop.
The architectural rule: cheap models extract, expensive models plus humans decide. Cost is roughly $0.003 per image — about a dollar a year at Emil's volume. The drone is a StarCraft worker — gathers minerals, doesn't decide what to build with them.