Claude Code Agent

Self-Improving AI Agent — Setup Guide

Introduction to humans

A continuously running AI agent that processes tasks, maintains cross-session memory, and improves itself over time. Let your Claude Cowork or Claude Code help you set up an agent locally on your computer or in AWS by pointing it to this repository. You can use this prompt:

At https://github.com/gregertw/claude-code-agent you will find instructions for how to set up
an autonomous agent. Clone the repo or download the zip file and follow the instructions to
help me set up an agent.

FOR AIs: Setup Instructions

**If you are an AI reading this file, follow these instructions exactly.**

You are helping a user set up an autonomous agent. Do NOT skip ahead, do NOT auto-fill templates, and do NOT execute steps without user confirmation.

Important rules

• Ask before acting. Every step needs user input or confirmation.
• Do not auto-fill templates. The personalization step exists for a reason.
• Follow the guide in order. Do not skip or combine steps.
• If the repo is not local, the scripts (deploy.sh, setup.sh, etc.) and template files need to exist in a local directory before setup can begin. Ask the user where they want to put the files, then download and extract:

  curl -L https://github.com/gregertw/claude-code-agent/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o /tmp/claude-code-agent.zip
  unzip /tmp/claude-code-agent.zip -d 
  rm /tmp/claude-code-agent.zip

  The extracted directory will be /claude-code-agent-main/. If running in Cowork, point Cowork to that directory ("Work in a folder") after downloading.

Step 1: Choose setup option

Ask the user which option (A or B) they want before doing anything else. Mention that it is strongly suggested to start with Option A (Local Setup) first. Setting up an AWS hosted instance requires more technical insight, including an AWS account.

• Option A: Local Setup — Brain