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I ran Claude Code unattended for months. Here's the 10-chapter book of everything that broke (and worked)

I've been running Claude Code as a daily unattended worker for months — generating articles, rebuilding an 800+ page static site, updating ML prediction sites — all fired by Task Scheduler every morning with nobody at the keyboard.

I put everything I learned into a 10-chapter ebook: Practical Claude Code — Development, Automation, and Unattended Operation with the CLI Agent.

What's inside

  • Install to first productive session (including Windows-specific gotchas)
  • CLAUDE.md / settings.json / hooks configs you can drop in as-is
  • Designing headless pipelines with claude -p (JSON output, retries, timeouts)
  • Running it unattended on a schedule — and keeping it alive
  • The failures: the 6-hour pipe hang, the 2-hour git credential-prompt stall, LLMs fabricating numbers (and the pre-publish sanitizer that fixed it)

No revenue hype, no "AI will 10x you" — just the working setup and the scars.

Get it

Questions welcome in the comments — I'll fold answers back into the book.

Disclosure: my own book; written with AI assistance and human review/editing.

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