Afk

afk

A [Claude Code][claude-code] skill for driving coding sessions from your phone when you step away from the keyboard.

You tell Claude where you're going (`/loop /afk ship the routing fix`), Claude posts a thread, and you drive the rest from Slack or iMessage. Milestones get posted, questions get asked, replies get parsed. No babysitting, no mid-dinner "is it done yet" anxiety.

How it looks

**Slack thread (default transport)** — one thread per session, triage a whole queue of worktrees from the channel timeline:


**iMessage / SMS (single-session)** — good for when you're truly off-wifi or don't want to open Slack on your phone:


In both cases your sends and Claude's sends appear under the same account, so the skill uses a `🤖 ` sentinel prefix to tell them apart. No polling your own posts into an infinite loop.

**iMessage gotcha**: if your Mac and iPhone are signed into the same Apple ID, every message in `chat.db` is marked `is_from_me=1` — including yours. The sentinel is the only reliable filter; the skill detects this case at session start and pins to sentinel-only filtering.

Quick install (user-scoped)

git clone https://github.com/wickdninja/afk.git ~/.claude/skills/afk

Or into a specific project:

git clone https://github.com/wickdninja/afk.git /.claude/skills/afk

The skill is invoked as `/afk` inside Claude Code, always wrapped in `/loop` so the [`ScheduleWakeup`][scheduled-wakeup] harness can do the polling:

/loop /afk                               # resume or inherit from current terminal context
/loop /afk                         # explicit task
/loop /afk --transport=imessage    # drive via iMessage/SMS instead of Slack

Configuration

Transport identity lives in user-local config so this repo stays clean.

Slack (`~/.claude/afk/slack.json`)

{
  "user_id":        "U0123