I use Claude Code everyday, lately Anthropic started shipping some tools that are really relevant for always-on autonomous agent, and I decided to create the glue of all these tools & features to create personal AI assistants that are just a CC instance. My goal was simple, to be able to run multiple always-on personal AI assistants on my laptop with a single Claude Subscription. The result is claude-code-hermit , an open-source Claude Code Plugin, a glue layer that turn Claude Code into a 24/7 personal assistant, with a heartbeat, routines, reflection, it learns from its work, and runs on your hardware. One Claude subscription, multiple hermits, one laptop. The compute lives in the cloud at Anthropic; the state, the credentials, and the agency live with you. This is the story of what I built and what 30 days of running 8 of them actually looks like. Why Claude Code was already 90% of the way there /loop for heartbeat. CronCreate does idle-gated cron routines. Channels handles Discord, Telegram.…