Guides and field notes on running Claude Code agents on your own Mac: scheduling, dispatch from your phone, and the plugins that do the work.
Most Claude Code blog pipelines still need you at the keyboard. Here are the six jobs an agent has to do alone to write a post at 3am, and where the nightly run should live.
/schedule makes cloud agents easy. Running several Claude Code agents unattended on your own Mac is the part nobody ships a tool for. Here is what collides, and how to fix it.
Running Claude Code agents on your Max plan means the weekly bar is your budget. How the two limit clocks work, what an unattended agent does when it hits one, and how to size a night shift that leaves your day intact.
Cursor, Codex, Devin and Jules all run your background agent in a fresh cloud VM. Here's what that actually costs per run, the work it structurally can't reach, and when your own Mac is the better runner.
Every "best plugins" list assumes you're at the keyboard. Scheduling needs a different filter: three questions that decide what earns a 2am slot, and what should never run while you're asleep.
/loop, Desktop scheduled tasks, cloud Routines, or a launchd scheduler on your own Mac: how each one behaves overnight, where it breaks, and how I choose.
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