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Technique

Schedules-produce, runners-pull fleet execution

Scheduled chores become tasks on a board and a background runner picks them up and hands them to an AI agent with a time limit.

built Jun 2026 updated Oct 2026 Agents that work while I sleep

how it works

Cron only writes task rows; a launchd runner claims over REST, invokes headless claude -p with a wall-clock ceiling, then finishes or releases-as-blocked with a push.

Technique: A pattern or hard-won lesson, written down so it isn't learned twice.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

headless-agentspull-modelscheduling

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  • Agent git fleet: worktrees, sweeper, ship Automation Gives every AI session its own copy of the code, then automatically opens reviews for finished work and cleans up.
  • Git discipline for agent fleets AI skill Rules that stop many AI assistants working in the same code from trampling each other's changes.
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