Techtools Claude Code Cron Loop

Cronloop

**A generic, installable, goal-driven autonomous multi-agent framework.** Set a goal; a pipeline of specialized AI agents (powered by Claude Code) works it on a schedule — turning the goal into tasks, implementing them, verifying them, and improving itself over time. A web **Control Panel** lets you set the goal, edit agent prompts, configure the schedule, and run/monitor everything.

**The Control Panel is now a Rails 8 app (`rails-app/`).** It is a native rewrite of the original Python `control-panel/server.py` + bash `scripts/*.sh`: a Rails 8.1 / Ruby 4 app using Hotwire (Turbo/Stimulus) for the UI, Solid Queue for the agent pipeline and supervisor schedule (replacing the system crontab), and Active Record only for live run state. It still reads/writes the same canonical framework files (`GOAL.md`, `config.json`, `tasks.md`, `actors/*/prompt.md`), so nothing about *how the loop is configured* changes. The Python panel and its docs below remain as the parity reference.

**Run it / promote it to production:** `bash rails-app/deploy/cutover.sh` — idempotent; it bundles, prepares the DBs, precompiles assets, installs the `cronloop-rails` systemd unit (Puma on `127.0.0.1:8788`, Solid Queue in-process), repoints the `ai-brain.cz` nginx vhost from the old `:8787` to `:8788`, and disables the legacy Python service + cron block. Needs (passwordless) sudo for the systemd/nginx steps; without it the script prints those as manual steps. See `rails-app/REWRITE_SPEC.md` for the full design contract.

Nothing here is domain-specific. **To change what the loop builds, edit `GOAL.md`** — the machinery stays the same. The default goal is *self-improvement of this framework*.

• Engine: Claude Code (Anthropic's AI CLI), run headless.
• Dependencies: none. Backend is Python 3 stdlib only; the UI is vanilla JS/CSS (no build step, no CDNs); scripts are bash + python3 for JSON. Works full