Ramp’s Inspect blog post a few months back had me wondering whether you could build a much smaller version of that idea for a personal backlog, without the closed-loop verifier and orchestration the full thing has. Spent a weekend on it and ended up with around 250 lines of Python. The flow: You label a GitHub issue with “agent” A webhook fires and spins up a disposable Linux VM from a snapshot that already has Claude Code and gh preinstalled (boots in 2-3 seconds) claude -p runs in headless mode against the repo gh opens a draft PR The VM gets torn down Comes out to around $0.20 to $0.40 per task in Anthropic tokens depending on how much context Claude has to build, and the VM cost underneath is sub-cent because it only runs while it’s working. Installing Claude Code and gh on every run would add about 90 seconds per task waiting on npm and apt, so I baked them into the image. The disposable-per-task thing also lets you run --dangerously-skip-permissions without worrying about it, since anything Claude does only touches a sandbox that’s about to be deleted. Here’s the write-up with the code: https://opencomputer.dev/blog/background-coding-agent Do you think a better implementation of the same product is possible? I aint paying shit for devin/cursor background agent lol submitted by /u/writer_coder_06
Originally posted by u/writer_coder_06 on r/ClaudeCode