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AI · March 1, 2026

Ductwork – A Go platform for running AI agents on autopilot

I've been running Claude agents for various automation tasks — monitoring crypto news, syncing Todoist, running health checks — and I kept hitting the same problem: there's no clean way to deploy an agent that just runs on a schedule without a human babysitting it. Every agent framework I looked at was built around chat interfaces or one-shot workflows. I wanted something closer to cron for AI agents — define a task, give it a schedule, let it run forever. So I built Ductwork. You define tasks as simple JSON files — a prompt, a schedule, optional memory and skills — and ductwork handles…

Ductwork – A Go platform for running AI agents on autopilot launched on March 1, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,928 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A Go-based platform for running AI agents on schedules with tasks, skills, and persistent memory. Single binary, three operating modes — from single-node to distributed. - dneil5648/ductwork

In the maker’s words, at launch

I've been running Claude agents for various automation tasks — monitoring crypto news, syncing Todoist, running health checks — and I kept hitting the same problem: there's no clean way to deploy an agent that just runs on a schedule without a human babysitting it. Every agent framework I looked at was built around…

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