personal claude code daemon — runs 24/7 on a vps with discord, telegram, voice, cron, and multi-session thread isolation. bun + ts.
a claude code that never sleeps
tenzin is a personal background daemon that turns claude code into a 24/7 assistant. it lives on a vps, listens on discord and telegram, speaks via voice messages, and runs scheduled jobs through cron — so the agent works while i'm not at the laptop, then routes results back when i am.
how it's wired
four loops sharing one runtime:
- heartbeat — periodic check-ins on a configurable cadence with quiet hours, so the agent picks up async tasks without me typing
- cron jobs — timezone-aware schedules for repeating or one-time work, with reliable execution + retry
- discord + telegram — text, image, and voice support. discord adds slash commands, mentions, and dm threading
- multi-session threads — every discord thread spins up its own isolated claude cli session. thread conversations run in parallel, the main channel keeps its own session, and all of it cleans up when threads are archived
the vps split
the heaviest model work runs locally on my laptop, but discord traffic has to be reachable from anywhere. tenzin solves it with a vps bridge:
- vps owns the discord token + the central job queue
- laptop acts as a worker: polls, claims, executes, returns chunks
- the queue exposes authenticated endpoints for claim, heartbeat, complete, fail, events, and health
caddy fronts it as a reverse proxy. the laptop never needs the discord token. when the laptop's offline, jobs queue. when it comes back, they drain.
reliability layer
if the primary claude run rate-limits, tenzin falls back to glm or codex cli automatically — same task, different model, no manual intervention. the web dashboard shows job state in real time. four security levels gate what the agent can touch on the host.
what's running
tenzin runs continuously, processes async messages, executes scheduled tasks, handles voice transcription, and powers parallel claude sessions across discord threads. built with bun + typescript, deployed via launchd on macos and systemd on the vps. forked from claudeclaw, personalized with my own scheduling, naming, and integrations.
