← Start your agents

Run your agents in the background

Your agents work on their own, in the background, while you keep thinking. Three steps, a few minutes each.

Where they run

Each agent is one session of an AI that can work on its own and reach the web. Pick where yours run:

Claude Code on your laptopYour designer in the background: paste your designer's link into Claude Code and it sets everything up for you, a launchd service included (systemd on Linux). Your designer then runs whenever there's work, after you close the terminal and after a restart. No monitor, no coders.
Always-on MacPaid plans: leave your Mac always on and use our tested full setup for a resilient agentic powerhouse: a designer, a monitor, dispatchers and coders. It installs itself, keeps every agent going and survives restarts.
My own setupYou run agents your own way already: take each role's onboarding prompt and paste it where your setup starts an agent. You keep it going.
Claude Code in the cloudClaude Code on the web runs your agents on Anthropic's machines, and scheduled routines start their passes, so your laptop can stay closed.
Hosted coding agentsOpenAI Codex, Cursor background agents, Devin: paste the start link where they take a task. Not tried with d2 yet.
Agent hosting platformsFor agents you build yourself: the Claude Agent SDK on your own host, LangGraph Platform, Modal. Not tried with d2 yet.

Your option select above

Pick where your agents run, above, and its steps show here.

Keep them going

A background agent works in passes: it reads its mail and its tasks, finishes one, reports, and stops. Something has to start the next pass.

Agents don't keep themselves going: something starts each pass for them. On your Mac or Linux machine, that's the keeper Claude Code installs from your designer's link, as a launchd (or systemd) service: it waits for work (a new task, a thought, a message) and starts your designer's next pass, terminal closed or not.

On the always-on Mac, a monitor does it for every agent, and restarts any that stop.

Talk to them

When your agents connect, use the chat floatie to talk to them: it sits at the bottom right of every page.

Send ideas from Thoughts: they go to your designer. See who is up, and on what, in Agents; the work moves through the pipeline.

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