IJFW (It Just F*cking Works!)

Your AI is brilliant. It's also forgetful, undisciplined, alone, and quietly burning tokens you never needed to spend. One install fixes all four. Richest on Claude Code, connected through Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Hermes, and Wayland.

Eight AI coding agents sharing one local memory that survives every session, every project, every restart. One disciplined workflow drives anything you'd open an AI for: code, books, launches, research, businesses. From idea to ship.

An on-demand three-AI critique puts a second lineage in the room so one model's blind spot never reaches production. Tasks dispatched to the right model for the job, output rules that strip the padding, prompt-cache discipline that compounds every session. Your bill goes down while your quality goes up.

A portable design contract keeps every AI on-brand: drop a DESIGN.md in your project root, or pick from 12 curated templates (Claude Design compatible), and the same palette, typography, and component rules carry across every agent on your stack. No more "make it look nice" as a prompt. No more cross-agent drift.

Whatever AI tools you use today, whatever you switch to tomorrow, IJFW makes them work as one brain. You bring the AI accounts you already use; IJFW adds nothing to pay for, runs entirely on your machine, and keeps every byte local.

One command to install. Then your AI starts behaving like a senior partner that's already read the brief. And you start wondering how anyone still works the old way.

Install

npm install -g @ijfw/install && ijfw-install

One command. Eight AI coding agents configured. Nothing to log into.

Windows (PowerShell 5.1 or 7+):

iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheRealSeanDonahoe/ijfw/main/installer/src/install.ps1 -OutFile install.ps1
.\install.ps1

Preflight (all platforms): Node 18 or newer, Git, and a bash shell (Git for Windows ships one). Windows users do not need WSL. If execution policy blocks the script, run PowerShell as powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\install.ps1.

What you see:

  +----------------------------------------+
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  |  IJFW  It just f*cking works.          |
  |                                        |
  +----------------------------------------+

  Installed at  ~/.ijfw

  ==> LIVE NOW (6)
      o  Claude Code
      o  Codex
      o  Gemini
      o  Windsurf
      o  Hermes
      o  Wayland

  ==> STANDING BY (2)   auto-activate on install
      o  Cursor
      o  Copilot

  ==> ONE MORE STEP   inside Claude Code
      /plugin marketplace add ~/.ijfw/claude
      /plugin install ijfw

  Full log   ~/.ijfw/install.log

Live now is the platforms on your machine, configured immediately. Standing by is every platform you do not yet have, pre-staged. Install Cursor next month and IJFW activates automatically. No rerun, no setup, no thought.

Every existing config gets a .bak.<timestamp> backup. Your existing MCP servers, model preferences, and per-project trust settings are preserved.

Full guide, one command away

Every install ships the complete guide. Open it in your terminal or your browser -- no network required, no page to bookmark, no docs site to remember.

ijfw help             # terminal, paged through less -R
ijfw help --browser   # rendered in your default browser, dark t

... [View full README on GitHub](https://github.com/TheRealSeanDonahoe/ijfw#readme)