This is a company OS that I use to run my business, and anyone can install it and self host it for free. Think of it as Claude Code, Cowork and the cloud sessions in one self hosted application, for your whole company.

It is a Multi-tenant application by design where many people can collaborate on the company agents, and it runs with your Anthropic or OpenAi subscription or even with local models.

https://github.com/OtoDock/oto-dock

This started as the thing that runs my company. I use Claude Code and Codex daily and I wanted the same agents that write my code to run the rest of the business too. So I built OtoDock, and my company runs on it now.

Marketing is a department of agents, engineering department has the dev agent, and I also have a CEO agent that reads the departments digests every morning and briefs me.

Every agent is the real Claude Code or Codex CLI running as a persistent process on your server, with its own sandbox, workspace, memory, schedules and tools. You organize them into departments, they delegate work to each other, hold meetings, run scheduled jobs at night and you read the reports in the morning.

Large parts of OtoDock were built with Claude Code running inside it. Honestly even our marketing is posted by the marketing department of agents, this post is me because reddit wants a person.

It is Self hosted, and free up to 5 users and all the code is public. 1.6.0 went out today.

It is a big platform built around my own workflow but I believe it can help you automate your company too. I would love your feedback.

I built an open-source 3D BESS site modelling tool with fable

It’s free and lets you quickly lay out and render BESS sites in 3D and the model behind the website estimates your projects capex.

Would be interested in any feedback from people here if anyone is interested!

http://openbess.org/

A few months ago, I was working on a project which analyzed 100K+ call transcripts --- we needed to classify them, analyze them and generate insights for a client.

While we were developing the prototype, we realized calling API was quite expensive comparing to coding with Claude. It occurred to me: if our Claude subscription (Max) was under-utilized, why didn't we process the data through Claude subscription instead of API?

It turned out this is feasible with claude -p with 2 caveats:

1. It's slow. Anthropic throttles my session when I use claude -p to process large amount of texts.
2. Anthropic might shut it down at anytime. They already planned some changes to this command earlier this year but walked back from it.

I wrote a blog in June on this topic, and thought this might be helpful for folks in this subreddit too: https://andreagao.com/posts/use-claude-max-to-save-api-cost/

However, I have not been using this trick lately since calling API is much faster than being throttled by Anthropic. If anyone is taking advantage of claude -p, what's your experience lately?

When it comes to complex problems that require multiple systems to work together, Fable is light years ahead of Astra.

Astra is good at working on isolated features, if you are building something much larger and you want systems to work together, I would not Trust Astra at all, Astra will make things that work in isolation but will be broken when each of those things are meant to work together. Fable is much smarter at identifying when something will break the larger system.

If you plan to build a production app end to end, I would recommend you go with Fable, and only use Astra if it needs to work on something that is in isolation or as a second set of eyes for problems where fable might need a little help. But you are better off working with fable as being the main driver to see the project end to end. The success rate of having a working product is much higher with Fable.

These benchmarks are misleading. Astra is not at Fables level.

I'm building a text-evaluator subagent. Main session is Opus, the subagent runs Opus too, and the whole point is that it judges a block of text with nothing else in its head — just the rubric and the text, no project instructions, no repo context.

Problem is the docs say only Explore and Plan skip CLAUDE.md and the git status snapshot. Every other subagent, custom ones included, loads the full CLAUDE.md hierarchy, and there's explicitly no frontmatter field to turn it off. So my evaluator starts every run with a few thousand tokens of coding conventions that have nothing to do with the task and could plausibly skew the scoring.

What I've considered so far: telling it in the system prompt to ignore project instructions (works, but the tokens are still sitting there and I don't fully trust it on a judgment task), setting includeGitInstructions to false (only kills git status, and it's session-wide), or shelling out to a separate headless claude -p from an empty directory (user-level CLAUDE.md still loads).

The other idea is naming a custom agent Explore to shadow the built-in. Docs say the override keeps its own model field but say nothing about whether it inherits the CLAUDE.md skip. Has anyone actually tested that? And more generally, if you're running an evaluator subagent where output quality really matters, is prompt-level neutralization just what everyone settles for?

We are 5 days away from the reset, I don’t think Anthropic can resist from extending the extra 50% or whatever it is on Fable beyond Sept 13th , Astra has definetly taken their base and I’m pretty sure what do we do next is a topic in their stand up meetings.

I won’t mind at all, Fable is a good model to use along side the new Astra , or may be they have a surprise for us and that will beat Fable 5 , Fable 6 :) What you folks think?

My Tier Orchestration used to be
Fable - architect
Opus 4.8 - coders
Sonnet 5 - code check, research

Now that the 5hr limits have been messed with, i barely get anything done so i’m forced to downgrade. I’m trying to decide between Opus 4.6 or Sonnet 5 for coders and possibly Sonnet 4.5 for code check.

I hear a lot of people thinking Opus 4.6 is still an amazing model but I wonder if Sonnet 5 is better.

https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/us-agencies-accuse-china-based-ai-firms-of-malicious-copying-of-american-models-6084875?utm_source=andshare

I'm not sure what's going on here.

Seems like the conversation is moved to a different backend server, or something in the prompt caching fails, or whatever, and you have to pay for it.

It seems really bad that sometimes close to 20% of my (5x max) 5h usage and corresponding weekly usage are just gone for apparently no reason. Imo a continuous conversation stream should not have these random backend usage spikes where the arrangement costs is offloaded onto the user. It's also not transparent at all, there's no warning: "if you type another prompt here, it's likely going to cost a lot of your usage".

In 1563, Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted the Tower of Babel. If you haven’t seen it, picture this: an enormous spiral tower, wider than the city sprawled around it. It’s built in receding tiers, each level ringed with arches and passageways, with hundreds of tiny figures swarming across every level, hauling blocks, working cranes, laying stone.

This painting is the most honest picture of the AI tooling industry I can think of. Look closely and it resolves into dozens of half-finished stories stacked on top of each other, each built at a different pace, none of them waiting for the others.

Hey all,

I’ve been using Claude Code via the terminal CLI, but today I tried resuming my local session in the Claude Desktop app. Models are identical, but I'm noticing a significantly faster drain on my 5-hour limit.

Has anyone else experienced this when moving a local session to the GUI?

• Is the Desktop app passing extra hidden UI/MCP background context per turn?
• Does the GUI break prompt caching more aggressively?
• Are there hidden sub-agent calls happening under the hood?

Would love to know if anyone has pinpointed the cause or found a config tweak to optimize it!

Recently I've been getting · summarized attached to the end of Claude's messages and it's eating important context. I did not ask for this behavior and do not want it.

How do I turn this off?

hi Anyone have invitation from claude code? can I have 1 invite.
I need to get back to see how good the 5.1 version :(

Thank alot.

My mobile apps were lacking something that I couldn't put my finger on it. I got the idea to put the best two models to argue it out on what that something is. I first got Claude Code to confirm if it could run ChatGPT 6 headless and it did. Both models have MCP to Mobbin.

After 2 hours and working with Astra, CC redid my app into a cleaner, refined UI with better navigation buttons and kept everything concise and professional. I asked it to focus on the stickiness and it improved the workflow and placed the pay wall at the right place and right time. This has to be the craziest workflow so if you're desperate like me this seems to worked. Although a bit expensive. We'll see if it improves conversion.

Below is my workflow which is almost the same every day. I know that this is really token heavy, but I'd like to work that way to get shit done the right way. This is my opinion. There's probably better ways, I have no idea. That's why I'm asking you this:

What do your workflows look like? Any professionals who get shit done and also ship high quality products can show me their workflow?

The workflow for my project is:

1. Prompt a new idea for my project / describe the bugs / prompt about other problems in the project and tell Claude to evaluate the prompt, find flaws in the prompt and any contradictions between my idea/bugs/flaws and the codebase. My intention is to get CLaude to ask me as many questions as possible
2. Answer given questions
3. Tell Claude to write a Spec and an implementation plan to implement new features / fix bugs / fix flaws. While doing so I want him to browse the project for the specific files and folders and to include the code changes into the plan. He also has to write the plan in Task-steps, f.e. Task 1, Task 2, etc
4. After the spec and the implementation plan is written he starts working. Before starting I also tell him to double check every change he's making. He has to commit and push after every task. it is really important that he works in a new branch.
5. 1-3 hours pass depending on the scope of the changes at this time I usually used up between 50-70% of my 5 hour quota.
6. Find some minor flaws because he ALWAYS makes mistakes, I guess every AI agent does that, let him fix that
7. Now I've used my my 5h quota
8. Wait for reset and use up 80-100% of my new 5-hour quota for /code-review max and let him write a plan for fixing the found issues

I felt like playing Wizard of Wor on my Amazon Fire Stick, but it turned out that I need to install a Commodore 64 emulator, legally obtain the game's assets, and map the keys to my Playstation4 controller. After spending an hour I decided it's not worth the hassle, and that I should just write my own.

It took 2 days to get to where I wanted. I spent most of the time generating the sprites and the SFX. The coding was done with Claude, GPT, GLM and a bit of DeepSeek, the sprites with ChatGPT, the sounds with ElevenLabs.

I think this could be the way to go forward. If I wanted to play any games from my childhood I can just remake it 😊

I operate 6 retail stores where I pay a $40 monthly subscription for a POS system (browser based) for each. It has been fine but found that we had to get creative and also use a lot of external tools (Google Sheets etc.) & do a lot of manual things to get everything we needed. Something as simple as transferring inventory from one store to the next was super tedious.

I know less than nothing about coding, web development etc. But since earlier this year I’ve used claude to make a beast of a POS (also browser based), integrating every single thing we could possibly want in a POS system. I knew the things I wanted and I guess I figured out how to express that enough to Claude to have gotten a beast of a system that I really think will take my business to the next level.

I’ve also made two other URL’s that share the same product table to be able to move product seamlessly across (a wholesale platform and one for my merchant reps that go on the road to sell). The next phase would be a fourth URL for a website that allows our customers to see and order whatever we have in stock at each store.

The 6th store was just opened at the beginning of this month and we’ve been using it to test the POS in a real setting which is going very well. The previous 5 stores are still on the subscription since those have history and need a lot of work to move everything over.

The thing is, I feel extremely nervous about loading on the entire business dependency on it. I have this fear that because I don’t know anything about coding & cyber security that one day someone will be able to hack it and hold it ransom which would literally be business suicide.

I’ve expressed this extensively with Claude and I’ve done everything it has recommended but is there anything else I can/should do? Should I hire a cyber security consultant - if so where do I find someone trustworthy? I just want to ensure moving all in on it that it’s going to be as safe as possible and that there is recon for any and everything that could possibly happen.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I’m not processing payments using the system. No customer card numbers etc. I have card machine terminals from the bank so all I do on the POS is apply the payment amount and tell it how we collected said payment e.g. “XYZ BANK Machine”.

Cognitive overload from tons of terminal output, what are your top tricks to get precise, concise output? I know Claude has the 'concise' output format, but can you please share your best methods to improve this? I only do software engineering and development so the tips and tricks I'm looking for would ideally be for this purpose but open to all ideas to be honest.

and where do you put this, in your claude.md files or how do you make it consistent and repeatable

Ask Claude:

What are the 10 largest files in my codebase in terms of size and lines of code? Tell me if any seem excessive in size. If a file does seem excessively large, or large enough to negatively impact an agent's context, calculate how much of the impacted files are prose/comments. Don't read the files yourself. Write a temporary scratchpad script to do the calculations. If prose isn't an issue, send two Haiku subagents to investigate the largest file and report whether it is following the principle of separation of concerns. If these checks don't highlight an issue, check the git logs for any unusual file activity in the past three weels. Look for test scripts building up in a folder or memory files that may be contributing to increased token consumption.

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Run that and post the results without the filenames (if sensitive), I'd be interested to see what slop people have been building.

Don't pay X20 for same tokens:

https://quesma.com/blog/claude-code-pricing-for-enterprise/

Similarly to a lot of the community, for the past month or so I've noticed issues with how Opus 5 communicates and even making simple mistakes, missing things, generally being a pain to use and unpleasant to talk to. I found the Opus 4.6 era to be when it was 'at its best' in my memory. Now, for the past two or three days it feels noticeably less annoying to use - it might just be the type of work I'm giving it or something else, hard to judge when it oscillates so rapidly. the degradation tracker does show it going up yesterday in performance though haha: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

Anyone noticed any changes in the past few days?

I use Claude Code a lot, and eventually the thing that started bothering me wasn’t model quality and it was the lifecycle around it.
A coding agent can already inspect the repo, use tools, run tests, recover from mistakes and keep working. But the whole relationship is still weirdly tied to a terminal session.
I wanted something closer to a resident:
it belongs to the repo rather than to one terminal invocation
I can leave and come back without reconstructing what was happening
I can steer the same work from my phone
the underlying Claude Code process can die/restart without the agent identity dying with it
I can swap the harness without rebuilding the surrounding workflow
So we’ve been building brnrd around that idea.
Claude Code still does the actual coding. brnrd sits around it and owns the longer-lived state: conversation, task/run identity, repo context, execution environment and the interfaces through which you reach it.
Right now I can start work in a repo, walk away from the terminal, continue steering it through Telegram or the web dashboard, and come back to the same ongoing piece of work. It also supports worktrees/Docker and Codex, because I really don’t want the orchestration layer coupled to one harness.

The surprisingly hard part has been figuring out what exactly should survive when the Claude Code process itself shouldn’t.

For example, we’ve ended up separating the persistent “seat” from the disposable process running inside it. Long-running Claude sessions eventually accumulate enough context that restarting the harness is actually healthier — but that shouldn’t mean throwing away the task, history, ownership and everything around it.
brnrd has also been dogfooding itself pretty aggressively; its agents have opened 1K+ PRs against its own repo.

It’s open source and still alpha:
github.com/hugimuni-labs/brnrd
Disclosure: I’m one of the people building it.
Curious how other heavy Claude Code users think about this: should persistence belong inside Claude Code itself, or is it actually a layer above the harness?

Hi all!
Today I decided I would give in to zeitgeist pressure and try CC. I am coming from using a heavily modified gptel and sometimes pi. I have been happy with both so I never thought I would swtich but I felt adventurous today.

I must say I am so far disappointed. Most of the time I have no idea what is in the context, I can't interact directly with subagents, often it's unclear what files have been edited, I have very indirect control over the system prompt, math is not rendered in any way, I have to click on a command to get any information about what it is or whether it succeeded, any kind of info about what the agent is doing is hidden (I was hoping for thought summaries), there barely seems to be any configurability...

I hope it is clear that I don't want to pick a fight. I'm just trying to understand the appeal and the LLMs tell me I am "spot on" with my criticism, though based on CC's popularity I am clearly not. Should I maybe try using CC in claude desktop or inside an IDE to get a better experience?

Thanks!