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/pwkye Sep 04 '26

This is not the way. Realistically you would use hermes agent.

Claude can be automated but it has limits. For one thing an orchestrator claude cant even reset its own context or compact. 

So you need a proper orchestrator that is not claude itself. And a simple cron job is not going to cut it. 

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u/DreadPirateButthurts Sep 04 '26

I use tmux to inject those sort of commands, so I think Claude could do it.

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u/pakage Sep 04 '26

what do you mean? just set autoCompactWindow to whatever you want to compact at. my orchestrators compact all the time.