Same terrain. A clearer next step.
The agent prints one focused question. You take the page away from the screen, work it in ink, and photograph it for the return.
A useful pause
The paper gives you room to keep the question in view before the next handoff. Switchback carries your marks back to the agent as questions, concerns, and a possible direction.
Illustrative example. These marks and this readback were authored together to show the ink language. The printed page itself comes from the current Switchback renderer.
Back to the agent
After you photograph the marked page, the readback starts with the numbered Ask and keeps the Stop in view.
- Ask (Q1) · answered first
- What are we really optimizing for?
- Stop · unresolved
- We have not decided what to say no to
- Crux · central trade-off
- Trade breadth for depth in v1
A possible next move is a smaller v1 built for depth. What to leave out still needs a decision.
Begin with a page.
Install Switchback through whichever group matches your setup, then ask for a focused paper session on the decision in front of you.
Requirements: Node.js 20.12 or later, a printer, a pen, a phone camera.
Claude Code: run both, in order
/plugin marketplace add vandermerwed/switchback/plugin install switchback@switchbackCodex, opencode, Cursor and other agents
npx skills add vandermerwed/switchbackOptional: install the CLI once, instead of fetching it with npx each time
npm install -g @vandermerwed/switchback