Claude Code /loop Daemon Hygiene: Daily Clear + Delete-Before-Create Crons

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Stateful vs Stateless Agent Daemons: A-Mode /loop vs C-Mode cron

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stateful vs Stateless Agent Daemons#

Long-running agents on the Max subscription split cleanly into two operating modes. A-mode keeps a single /loop session alive across cycles, accumulating in-session context that gets cleared once a day. C-mode wraps claude -p in a bash sleep loop; every cycle is a fresh process with zero carryover. Both run forever in tmux. Both cost $0 of Anthropic API spend (the subscription pays). They behave very differently per cycle.

Tmux on Agent Zone

Claude Code /loop Daemon Hygiene: Daily Clear + Delete-Before-Create Crons

Claude Code /loop Daemon Hygiene#

Stateful vs Stateless Agent Daemons: A-Mode /loop vs C-Mode cron

Stateful vs Stateless Agent Daemons#