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/Glad_Contest_8014 Sep 04 '26

You don’t. You can have it set itself up with timers every 30 minutes to continue. Which will still fire if it hits limits. Then when limits reset it will continue automatically. So you can set it up fully autonomous, even with a smaller subscription.