Publishing platform
Bread Pitt
Sourdough recipes, bake records, photography, and publishing workflows.
Visit BreadPitt.net →Abbey Root
A project-aware engineering platform for real projects.
Abbey brings infrastructure, developer tooling, publishing, structured research, and AI-assisted workflows together around a common source of truth.
Proof in practice
Built with Abbey
Working projects are where the framework earns its keep.
Personal site
BradCooke.com
Personal publishing, technical projects, Orchid Rescue, and the journal.
Visit BradCooke.com →Reference implementation
AbbeyRoot.com
The framework's own site: built, documented, validated, and operated with Abbey.
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What Abbey Does
A connected toolkit for the work around building and operating a project.
Project-aware tooling
One command-line interface, with behavior resolved from each active project's own configuration.
Self-documenting development
Planning, sessions, generated documentation, validation, and project state stay connected.
Publishing
Build, validate, prepare media, and safely publish static sites through project-owned workflows.
Infrastructure automation
Manage hosts, DNS, services, health checks, and release infrastructure as reviewable code.
Structured research
Turn source material into traceable observations, evidence, hypotheses, and validation.
AI-assisted workflows
Use AI inside explicit, inspectable processes while keeping judgment and approval with people.
In progress
Currently Building
Abbey Research
A provenance-first workflow for moving from source material to reviewable observations, evidence, hypotheses, and validation—without confusing AI output with approved knowledge.
Current focus Validating the observation-candidate workflow through real use.
The operating model
How Abbey Works
Each project owns its facts. Abbey connects them to a repeatable engineering loop.
- 01ReviewUnderstand the project state.
- 02DefineChoose one clear objective.
- 03BuildMake the smallest coherent change.
- 04ValidateTest the result and its risks.
- 05CapturePreserve decisions and learning.
Where ideas get tested
The Abbey Lab
Abbey Root is also a working Linux home lab: a small fleet of purpose-built systems for automation, hosting, infrastructure services, AI experiments, backups, and safe technical learning.
ProxmoxLinuxAnsibleStatic hostingLocal AIObservability
Notes from the work
From the Journal
Metadata-Driven Interactive Plant Updates
A single plant update can now begin with the photo and its metadata instead of a long option list.
Harden Multi-Plant Update Workflow
Turned real multi-plant update friction into safer worksheets, reusable slug discovery, and idempotent recovery.
Separate AbbeyRoot.com and BradCooke.com Publishing Ownership
Completed the publishing boundary between AbbeyRoot.com, BradCooke.com, and the shared Plant Model.
Now
What I’m Working On
I’m proving Abbey through the projects it supports: strengthening the framework, validating its research workflow, expanding project-aware automation, and continuing to build the sites and infrastructure that use it.
Explore the projects →