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There are three execution modes:

* Scheduled, cron-based. For example, my daily email triage runs at 6 AM, processes ~50 emails, archives the noise, and sends me a Telegram summary before I wake up.

* Watcher, event-driven. A cheap check script (JS/Python) polls for changes. Only triggers Claude when something actually happened.

* Persistent, long-running sessions with heartbeats, checkpoints, and restart policies.

Tools use MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that you write and control. No plugin marketplace, no third-party code touching your credentials. Cost tracking is first-class. Every run logs its cost in USD. Per-run limits, daily budgets, monthly caps. The daemon pauses everything if you hit your budget. This matters when agents run unsupervised.

Everything is plain text, agent definitions, run logs, memory, cost ledgers. git diff your agents, grep your run history. I'm currently running this on a $5/mo Hetzner VPS.

Requirements: Node.js 20+ and the Claude Code CLI.

Anyhow, hope it's helpful and happy to answer any questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022524

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I'm by no means against Lightning, it's just got a long road of ecosystem, development and better UX ahead of it before we see general mainstream adoption. At the moment, bitcoin's killer feature is holding bitcoin. Most people don't know what Sats are. There are few bitcoin-payable apps. Few stable assets that remove volatility for every day payments like you would need with 402. Stuff like that.

Transactions confirm every 2 seconds on Base, and preconfirm even faster (every 200ms); there's no lag from a peer to peer payments perspective since they settle so quickly.

Through account abstraction and spend permissions, you also don't have to wait and authorize every single payment. It's a customizable from a developer perspective depending on how they want to build out their application.

These days many transaction types onchain are completely free and subsidized because gas costs are subcent[1].

x402 functions predominantly on L2 networks like Base, where individual tx costs between agents are generally not a factor.

[1] https://www.gasfees.io/

It's dependent on how performant the underlying protocol is, not all blockchains are the same.

This extension is inspired by the 'post to HN' bookmarklet and does three main things...

1. Smart title optimization: automatically removes site names, converts "10 Ways to Build X" to "How to Build X", and follows HN's title guidelines / recommendations for best practices

2. Duplicate detection: scans 1000+ recent HN stories to find existing submissions (links to the most upvoted, canonical version if found)

3. Built-in HN guidelines: helps people like me who want to contribute, be mindful of doing it the right way

It's pure vanilla JavaScript with no external dependencies, uses HN's official Firebase API for duplicate checking, and only requests activeTab permission. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave.

It's open source (MIT license) and privacy-first and the only data it accesses is your current tab's URL and title when you explicitly use it: https://github.com/wbnns/submit-to-hacker-news

You can install it by downloading from GitHub and loading the appropriate folder into your browser's developer mode. No accounts or setup required.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166662

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