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Afterhours — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Afterhours: queue Claude Code prompts and run them while you're away.

How to install Afterhours

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open aryalskanda/afterhours and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Afterhours does

Afterhours: queue Claude Code prompts and run them while you're away. The engine, the protocol and the Telegram bot.

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README

Afterhours

**Line up Claude Code tasks from Telegram. They run one after another on your computer while you're away, wait out usage limits, and message you only when they need you.**

Afterhours is a free, open-source task queue for [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) on **macOS, Linux and Windows**, from a laptop to a server in the cloud. You send a prompt to your own Telegram bot and tap buttons to choose the folder, mode, model and effort. Afterhours then runs the real Claude Code CLI on that computer. It:

approves plans;
sends permission requests and questions to your phone;
carries on after a usage limit resets;
keeps the computer awake while it works, and puts it to sleep when it's done;
puts each new piece of work on its own git branch for you to review.

Afterhours runs Claude Code with your own Claude sign-in and plan. It is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Anthropic.

you  Add a dark mode toggle to the settings page
bot  New task
     │ Add a dark mode toggle to the settings page
     Folder: shop/web · Chat: new, on its own branch
     How: Plan first · Auto · Plan: Opus · Max · Work: Sonnet · Low
     [Folder] [Chat] [How] [Model] [When] [More]
     [Queue] [Discard]
you  taps Queue
bot  Queued #14 · Starting now.
bot  #14 started … Plan approved (Yes, and use auto mode)
bot  #14 hit the 5-hour limit · resets 3:30 PM · it continues on its own
bot  #14 done in 48m · 6 files changed, 212 insertions(+)
     On branch afterhours/14-add-a-dark-mode-toggle
     [Follow up] [New task here] [Merge] [Pull request]

What it adds to Claude Code


A queue across projects	Each task has its own folder, mode, model and effort. Tasks run one at a time, in order.
Unattended plans	`plan` tasks plan first, then Afterhours approves the plan. `review` tasks send you the plan to approve or change.
Limit-aware	No new task starts while a 5-hour or weekly limit is active. The running