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I turned my idle Claude Max subscription into a 24/7 AI company — $0 extra

Two months ago I realized my Claude Max subscription was idle 23 hours a day. So I built a 24/7 AI operations system around it.

What it does

  • 11 specialized AI teams — Infra, Trend, Record, Brand, Academy, Career, Standup, Security, Finance, Recon, Council
  • 30 automated cron tasks — morning standups, market alerts, code audits, memory management, log rotation
  • Real-time Discord chat — ask questions, Claude answers instantly in threads with context memory
  • 4-layer self-healing — crashes auto-diagnose using Claude, recover in ~30 seconds
  • 98% context compression — custom MCP server keeps sessions running 3+ hours

The key insight

claude -p is Claude Code's headless CLI, included in the Max subscription. Spawn unlimited processes at zero incremental cost.

The Context Intelligence Gateway (Nexus CIG)

Built a local MCP server that sits between Claude and every system call. Instead of dumping raw logs/JSON into context, it classifies output type, extracts signal, drops noise.

Result: 315 KB → 5.4 KB (98%). Sessions run 3+ hours vs 30 min without it.

Numbers after 2 months

  • $0 extra per month (Max subscription only)
  • 99.7% uptime (14 incidents, 9 resolved autonomously)
  • 3+ hour sessions with Nexus CIG active
  • 60/61 E2E tests passing

GitHub

Would love to hear if anyone else is running Claude agents 24/7. What's your approach to context management?

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