Claude Code /loop Daemon Hygiene#

A claude /loop 5m /role-daemon daemon is the easiest way to run an autonomous agent on a Max subscription: tmux session, one command, comes back every five minutes forever. It works perfectly for the first hour. By hour six it has accumulated 50,000+ tokens of stale “in cycle 47 I posted to MM” history that ships to Anthropic on every prompt. By day two it has three overlapping cron entries firing the same daemon every two minutes instead of every five. By day three it has auto-compact-exited and the tmux session is bare.