on the Claude subscription you already pay for. When one of them has a question, you answer it with a click — in the browser, or from Telegram when you are not at the desk.

It does not stop at one. An agent can start other agents — each with its own worktree, branch and role — and it is told when one of its own finishes, blocks on a question, or dies. Nothing else wakes it.

It keeps working when you are not there. Mirror an agent to a Telegram topic and answer from your phone, one topic per agent. Put a prompt on a schedule with a guard that runs without the model: prints nothing, nothing happened, zero tokens spent.

It stays on a leash. A profile is a role plus guardrails — forbid git commit and the agent cannot commit. Secrets live in a vault outside your repository and are injected only into the agents that need them. Quota gauges show the 5h and 7d windows, and can hold an agent back when it is burning faster than the window elapses.

It wrote itself. shadok-ai is largely built by agents running inside shadok-ai, in their own worktrees, landed as reviewed pull requests. The section below is what that produced.

Quick start

npx shadok-ai…