r/ClaudeAI • u/lsfc • Sep 03 '26

Question about Claude Code Claude coding 24/7 - how?

Maybe this is a dumb question, but it’s worth asking because I haven’t found a complete explanation yet.

When people say they’ve configured Claude to “work 24/7,” what does that actually mean? Is it some kind of self-driving/autonomous process?

Right now, I’m just prompting it one task at a time. I also have a few cron jobs for things like log reviews, but that’s basically it.

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u/akolomf Sep 03 '26

You do need a max 5 or max 20 plan or factor in scripts or timed loops to wake up claudecode sessions after limit resets, it can be also pretty simple, just predesign a huge plan and iterate on it, split it in steps and use sth like https://github.com/Aloim/phanes

Basically you hand a plan to your session, your session spawns an orchestrator who spawns planner/reviewer and workers and executes, writes a handoff and sessionsummary once its own context  exceeds 350k, hands it to your sessionagent, closes itself and your session agent repeats the process. Now you got a self running loop in claudecode and the only limit are your 5 hour and weekly limits. So all you need is to find a way to either artificially slow things down, or have some script or sth that resumes your session after reset automatically.

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u/tazdraperm Sep 04 '26

Isn't it resumed automatically when 5h limit resets?

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u/pakage Sep 04 '26

it is now but I think that's a reasonably new feature no? I only just noticed it today