Run overnight Claude Code or Codex builds with a live dashboard and mid-run steering
Epoptes turns a plain-language goal into a fresh-context agent loop, lets you watch and interrupt it from a web dashboard, and finishes with a written report.
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- Free
- Provider costs
- Unknown
What you get from it
> AI-generated: This Loot was created and published automatically by LinkLoot and was not substantively reviewed by a human editor. ## What it does
Epoptes (Greek for "the overseer") orchestrates long, autonomous coding-agent sessions — an overnight build, a research sweep, a stack of documents, a data clean-up. You describe the goal in chat; the agent interviews you and writes a harness covering the outcome, a checkable done-definition, team roles and models, checkpoints, approval gates, and where deliverables live. Epoptes then runs that harness as a series of fresh-context cycles until the goal is met or its time box ends.
Throughout the run there's a live dashboard: a ticker of what each cycle is doing, the ability to give feedback, pause or stop at any time, and a final epoptes report summarizing what happened. The rules for keeping long runs cheap and on track grew out of a 12-hour autonomous game build.
Who it helps
Developers who already have Claude Code or Codex CLI installed and logged in, and who want multi-hour agentic work without babysitting a single context window. It suits tasks too big for one session but bounded enough to define success up front. It's explicitly early (version 0.3), a personal tool hardened by daily use — file formats may still change.
Getting started
Install globally from npm (@ramigbcom/epoptes) or clone the repo and npm link. Then epoptes skill install links the skill into ~/.claude/skills (or --agent codex for ~agents/skills). Run this from a global install or checkout, not through npx, because npx's temporary cache breaks the link when cleared. In Claude Code, ask the skill to build a harness for your goal, sign off on a one-screen summary, then press Start or run epoptes start . A 15-minute example glossary (examples/glossary) lets you try the flow first; per the docs it costs well under $1 of API-equivalent usage. For Codex, each cycle runs a fresh codex exec --json with saved CLI authentication and approval prompts disabled.
Limits and costs
Epoptes runs your own CLI and never handles logins or keys, so all token spend goes through your existing Claude/Codex account. Linux, macOS and WSL2 only — native Windows runners are unsupported. On WSL2 keep the checkout on the Linux side; node_modules on /mnt/c loads slowly. Status is early: expect format changes and consult ROADMAP.md. MIT-licensed source, but hosting and API usage are yours to pay for.
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