Timer Agent
Tracks each speaker. Announces the one-minute warning and time's up. Visual countdown on the room display.
A meetup format for AI power users
ToastAgents.
Power users only. The format does the filtering.
Toastmasters structure. Claude Code Anonymous candor. Five agents run the room while builders trade workflows for sixty minutes. No community management. No hand-holding. No vendor pitches.
Who
The format self-selects.
Lightning talks require real experience. Table Topics expose whether you actually use these tools daily. You can't fake sixty seconds on the spot.
For people who…
- Run a non-trivial AI dev setup daily (harnesses, MCP servers, custom hooks)
- Have shipped real things with AI tools, not just experimented
- Can talk about their workflow off the cuff without preparation
- Want to hear what other power users are doing, not explain basics to beginners
Not for…
- People who installed Claude Code last week
- "I'm curious about AI" attendees
- Pitching products, recruiting, vendor demos
- Community builders looking for a Discord-growth format
Format
Sixty minutes. Three blocks.
Social time after is optional and organic. The structured part ends on time, every time.
01
5 min
02
30–40 min
03
15–20 min
Agent Roles
A Claude meetup run by Claude.
Toastmasters has human volunteers for Timer, Evaluator, Grammarian. ToastAgents replaces them with live agents on a laptop wired to the venue screen. Humans show up, talk, listen.
Feedback Agent
After each lightning talk, generates a thirty-second spoken evaluation. What landed, what could improve, one specific suggestion.
Hot Seat Agent
Picks audience members at random for Table Topics. Generates questions based on the night's theme.
Ah Counter Agent
Tracks filler words: um, ah, like, basically, you know. Reports the count at the end of the night.
Recap Agent
Summarizes the night's key moments and takeaways in sixty seconds. The closing word.
Recalibration
What this is not.
If you're coming from Toastmasters, recalibrate. The structure is borrowed. The rest is deliberately absent.
| Toastmasters assumes | ToastAgents assumes |
|---|---|
| Everyone should get a chance to speak. | Only power users speak. The format filters. |
| The goal is to practice speaking. | The goal is to exchange high-signal information. |
| You build a supportive community over time. | An independent gathering. No community management. |
| Organizers prep logistics, roles, evaluations. | Agents handle roles. Organizers pick a date and venue. |
| Table Topics is for practicing impromptu speaking. | Table Topics is the filter that reveals who's real. |
| New members are welcomed and mentored. | New members either keep up or stay quiet. |
| Meetings have structured curricula and pathways. | No curriculum. No progression. Raw knowledge exchange. |
Sample Table Topic
You have sixty seconds. Go.
Real questions from database/table-topics.json (102 in the repo). Click for another.
Describe your Claude Code setup in sixty seconds.
90 seconds on the clock
How to start
Pick a date. Find a screen. Run it.
No organizer logistics. No community building. Don't overthink it.
- Find a venue. Anywhere with a screen and WiFi.
- Pick a date. Don't build a community around it. Just pick a date.
- Get four or five power users to speak. DM the people posting real AI workflows.
- One laptop running the agents, wired to the venue screen. That's your production setup.
- Run the format: opening, talks, hot seat. One hour. Done.
- No recording. No livestream. Keeps it candid.
- Add your chapter to the repo.
Chapters
Where it runs.
Want to start one? Open a PR or reach out.
| City | Organizer | Started |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore SG | @phuakuanyu | April 2026 |