Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them

https://charlielabs.ai/

Article

  • Daemons are persistent background processes that monitor and fix AI agent side effects
  • Defined in Markdown files; observe filesystem/state and react to drift
  • Pivoted from building agents after finding cleanup was the harder, unsolved problem

Discussion

  • Commenters asked how it differs from Claude Code hooks — answer: hooks are event-driven, daemons are persistent observers
  • Questions raised about ordering constraints when two daemons touch related files
  • Skeptics asked why these couldn’t just be callable skills instead of a new abstraction

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Added Apr 21, 2026
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