Creator Magic

Build an AI Agent That Runs 24/7 With Tank

⏱ 61 min video · 3 min read8 Jul 2026

TL;DR

The creator demonstrates how to build autonomous AI agents that run 24/7 using Tank, an AI coding orchestration system, by connecting Claude Code and Grok Build, creating reusable Reddit-scraping skills, and scheduling recurring tasks that automatically summarize subreddit content. The key insight is that you can use expensive models like Claude Opus to figure out how to do something once, save it as a reusable skill, then hand off the repetitive work to cheap models like Haiku 4.5.

Key points

Tank is an AI coding orchestration system that runs Claude Code, Grok Build, Codex, and Antigravity sessions in TMUX terminals, storing all data in SQLite — it replaces tools like Open Claw and Hermes Agent.

Reusable skills are the key efficiency lever: Claude Opus took 4 minutes to figure out how to scrape Reddit through bot-blocking, but once saved as a skill, the same task ran in 30 seconds using Haiku 4.5.

Tank now supports scheduled cron jobs per project, allowing multiple AI agents running different models to execute tasks automatically on a set schedule — the demo showed two agents firing simultaneously to summarize different subreddits.

Skills saved in Claude-specific directories are not accessible to other agents like Grok; skills must be saved using an open protocol or shared directory structure for cross-agent use.

Anthropic temporarily restored Claude Sonnet 5 (referred to as Fable 5) to Max/Pro plans until Sunday 12 July, and GPT-5.6 general availability plus Grok 4.5 were anticipated imminently.

Actionable insights

→

Use an expensive frontier model once to solve a hard problem (e.g. bypassing Reddit bot-blocking), save the solution as a shared skill file, then assign all future recurring runs to a cheap model like Haiku 4.5 to minimise token costs.

→

When saving skills in Tank, explicitly instruct Claude Code to save to a shared open-protocol directory rather than the hidden .claude folder, so Grok Build and other agents can also access those skills.

→

Design your 24/7 agents in layers: use scheduled tasks for data gathering (Reddit, Gmail, RSS), then have a synthesis step that distills findings into a single actionable insight or morning report — the demo showed this working end-to-end with subreddit comment sentiment analysis.

Notable quotes

“The sooner they retire web browsers entirely and just accept it is game over and Cloudflare just steps down and says, AI agents go wild, the internet is no longer designed for humans, then I think the world will be a happier place, probably.”

“All you need Fable 5 for is to figure out the thing. And once you have figured out the thing, you can hand the work to Haiku 4.5, to Sonnet, to all these smaller models.”

“I want to get 3 top posts from Reddit and I have to call 10 different URLs until eventually my AI agent figures it out. It is ridiculous.”

Worth watching?

⏭️

Worth watching the full video?

Skip the video — the core concepts and practical steps are fully captured here; the livestream format means significant time is spent on live debugging, chat interaction, and waiting for agents to complete, with little additional insight beyond what is summarised.

Topics

AI & Tech Claude Code

Explore more summaries on these topics →

Saved you some time? The creator still deserves a like.

Watch on YouTube →

More like this