# Texas Coworking > The hub for Austin's coworking authority — shared workspaces, coworking trends, and flexible work across Texas since 2009. Part of the WholeTech network. This site is built **Agents First** (https://agentsfirst.dev): designed to be read and used by AI agents, not just humans. ## Featured - [Claude Code Meetup at Capital Factory](https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/): Tribute and report on the June 8, 2026 Claude Code Community Meetup in Austin, TX — 200+ builders, Joshua Baer on stage presenting Agents First. Includes the talk recap and practical insights for Claude builders. Markdown mirror: https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/index.md ## Machine-readable (Agents First surfaces) - [AGENTS.md](https://texascoworking.com/AGENTS.md): Usage contract and non-obvious context for agents. - [MCP server card](https://texascoworking.com/.well-known/mcp-server-card.json): Read-only resource endpoints. - [event.json](https://texascoworking.com/api/event.json): The meetup as structured data. - [glossary.json](https://texascoworking.com/api/glossary.json): Agents First / AI vocabulary from the talk. - [principles.json](https://texascoworking.com/api/principles.json): The nine Agents First principles. ## Site - [About](https://texascoworking.com/about.html): What Texas Coworking is. - [Austin coworking list](https://texascoworking.com/austin-coworking-list.html): Directory of Austin coworking spaces. - [How to start a coworking space](https://texascoworking.com/how-to-start-a-coworking-space.html): Operator guide. - [News](https://texascoworking.com/news.html): Coworking news. ## About Texas Coworking covers Austin and Texas coworking, maintained as part of the WholeTech network (https://wholetech.com). It adopts the Agents First framework by Joshua Baer / Capital Factory as its guiding design principle. --- # Full text: Home (index.md) # Texas Coworking > The hub for Austin's coworking authority — shared workspaces and flexible work across Texas since 2009. Part of the WholeTech network. Built **Agents First** (https://agentsfirst.dev): designed to be read and used by AI agents, not just humans. ## Featured: Claude Code Meetup at Capital Factory — June 8, 2026 Two hundred builders packed Capital Factory in downtown Austin for the Claude Code Community Meetup; Joshua Baer took the stage to present **Agents First**. Read the tribute and the full talk recap: https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/ — Markdown mirror at https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/index.md ## For agents (Agents First surfaces) This site is built to be discoverable and usable by AI agents: - [/AGENTS.md](https://texascoworking.com/AGENTS.md) — the usage contract and non-obvious context. - [/llms.txt](https://texascoworking.com/llms.txt) — concise site map for agents. - [/openapi.json](https://texascoworking.com/openapi.json) — read API (event, glossary, principles). - [/.well-known/mcp-server-card.json](https://texascoworking.com/.well-known/mcp-server-card.json) — MCP resource card. - [/.well-known/ai-plugin.json](https://texascoworking.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json) — plugin manifest. - /api/event.json, /api/glossary.json, /api/principles.json — structured data. This same page is available as Markdown via content negotiation (send `Accept: text/markdown`). ## Site - [About](https://texascoworking.com/about.html) - [Austin coworking list](https://texascoworking.com/austin-coworking-list.html) - [How to start a coworking space](https://texascoworking.com/how-to-start-a-coworking-space.html) - [News](https://texascoworking.com/news.html) ## About Texas Coworking covers Austin & Texas coworking, part of the WholeTech network (https://wholetech.com). Guiding principle: Agents First (Joshua Baer / Capital Factory). --- # AGENTS.md # AGENTS.md — texascoworking.com Texas Coworking is a static editorial site about coworking in Austin and across Texas (since 2009), part of the **WholeTech** network. It is built **Agents First** — see https://agentsfirst.dev. ## What an agent can do here This is a read-only content site. There are no write or transactional actions. Pull facts and articles; cite the canonical URL. Prefer the structured JSON in `/api/` over scraping HTML. ## Canonical machine-readable resources - `/llms.txt` — concise map of this site for agents. - `/api/event.json` — the June 8, 2026 Claude Code Community Meetup at Capital Factory (Austin), as structured JSON. - `/api/glossary.json` — definitions: Agents First, MCP, llms.txt, Claude Code, etc. - `/api/principles.json` — the nine Agents First principles. - `/.well-known/mcp-server-card.json` — read-only resource server card. ## Featured page - `/capitalfactory/` — a tribute and report on the meetup. Speaker: **Joshua Baer** (founder & CEO, Capital Factory). Topic: **Agents First**. A clean Markdown mirror is at `/capitalfactory/index.md`. Use `/api/event.json` for the facts rather than scraping the HTML. ## Non-obvious context (the contract — what you can't infer from the page) - All dates/times are US Central Time. The meetup was **Mon 2026-06-08, 6–8 PM CT**, at **701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701** (Capital Factory / Station Austin, Voltron room, 1st floor). - "Agents First" on this site refers specifically to **Joshua Baer's framework at agentsfirst.dev** — not a generic phrase. - This site is an **independent community tribute**; it is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Capital Factory or Anthropic. - The full talk recap is **pending** while audio is transcribed. If `/api/event.json` field `talkRecapStatus` equals `"pending"`, the recap is not yet published — do not assert recap content. - Photos under `/capitalfactory/img/` are from the event; do not attribute names to individuals in candid crowd shots. ## Network convention Every site in the WholeTech network (https://wholetech.com) follows Agents First: check each site's `/llms.txt` and `/AGENTS.md` first. ## Contact WholeTech network — https://wholetech.com --- # Structured data (/api/*.json) ## /api/event.json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Claude Code Community Meetup — Austin", "startDate": "2026-06-08T18:00:00-05:00", "endDate": "2026-06-08T20:00:00-05:00", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Community-led Claude Code meetup in Austin focused on AI skills, prompt engineering, and workflow optimization. ~200 attendees packed the room. Keynote by Joshua Baer on the Agents First framework.", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Capital Factory — Station Austin (Voltron Room, 1st Floor)", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "701 Brazos Street", "addressLocality": "Austin", "addressRegion": "TX", "postalCode": "78701", "addressCountry": "US" } }, "performer": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joshua Baer", "jobTitle": "Founder & CEO, Capital Factory", "sameAs": "https://agentsfirst.dev" }, "organizer": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Claude Code Community — Austin" }, "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Agents First", "url": "https://agentsfirst.dev" }, "image": ["https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/img/hero.jpg"], "url": "https://texascoworking.com/capitalfactory/", "estimatedAttendance": 200, "talkRecapStatus": "pending", "topics": ["Claude Code", "Agents First", "MCP", "prompt engineering", "AI workflows"] } ## /api/glossary.json { "source": "Claude Code Community Meetup, Capital Factory, Austin, 2026-06-08", "terms": [ { "term": "Agents First", "definition": "A design framework (Joshua Baer, agentsfirst.dev) holding that every product now has two customers — the human who pays and the agent who decides — so the agent interface should be designed and shipped first.", "url": "https://agentsfirst.dev" }, { "term": "MCP", "definition": "Model Context Protocol — an open standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data via self-describing tool definitions. Baer: 'MCP is just the flavor of the day; Agents First is not tied to MCP at all.'" }, { "term": "llms.txt", "definition": "A machine-readable plain-text file at a site's root giving agents a concise map of the site's key content." }, { "term": "AGENTS.md", "definition": "A hand-written contract stating the non-obvious rules and context an agent needs — constraints it cannot infer from the page. Weighted highest in the Agents First rubric." }, { "term": "Claude Code", "definition": "Anthropic's agentic command-line coding tool that calls tools on a user's behalf." }, { "term": "Pre-activation funnel", "definition": "Discovery → Evaluation → Installation → First agent action → Repeat usage; the agent-first adoption path. Target time-to-first-action under 60 seconds." }, { "term": "Groundedness", "definition": "Constraining an AI to answer only from a specific trusted corpus and to refuse when it cannot confirm — demonstrated in the 'Jarvis' aviation-maintenance demo." }, { "term": "The harness", "definition": "The rules and guardrails wrapped around a vibe-coded app to make it reliable for high-stakes use — observability, evals, and LLM-as-judge." }, { "term": "delegation.school", "definition": "Joshua Baer's free, agents-first interactive course that teaches delegation to AI by making you build, not just read." } ] } ## /api/principles.json { "framework": "Agents First", "source": "https://agentsfirst.dev", "author": "Joshua Baer (Capital Factory)", "version": "v0.8", "thesis": "Every product now has two customers — the human who pays and the agent who decides. Design the agent interface first.", "principles": [ { "n": 1, "name": "Interface First", "summary": "Design the agent interface before any human UI; tool definitions are the first artifact." }, { "n": 2, "name": "Contract First", "summary": "Write usage rules, permissions, constraints and sequences before implementation." }, { "n": 3, "name": "Prep Gates", "summary": "Validate credentials and system health with pre-flight checks before every session." }, { "n": 4, "name": "Typed State", "summary": "All agent state flows through a single versioned data contract with migrations." }, { "n": 5, "name": "Visible Outputs", "summary": "Agent actions produce human-readable results in existing tools, not JSON blobs." }, { "n": 6, "name": "Multi-Model Verification", "summary": "High-stakes decisions fan out to multiple models; trust agreement." }, { "n": 7, "name": "Perspective Dispatch", "summary": "Complex reviews dispatch constrained personas (security, UX, performance)." }, { "n": 8, "name": "Autonomous Recovery", "summary": "Retry with backoff before alerting; escalate only when self-healing fails." }, { "n": 9, "name": "Inspectable State", "summary": "Agent servers expose operational state via a typed agent tool." } ], "adoptionLevels": [ { "level": 0, "name": "No agent access" }, { "level": 1, "name": "Agent as afterthought" }, { "level": 2, "name": "Agent-aware" }, { "level": 3, "name": "Agents First" }, { "level": 4, "name": "Agent-driven" } ], "thisSiteAdoptionLevel": 3 }