Continuous Agent: a 24/7 queue that spawns workers and validates before the next goal
Jan 24 jackzhaojin/continuous-agent: PM2 executive loop picks prioritized goals, spawns multi-vendor workers into an isolated sandbox, runs deterministic verifiers, and only sleeps when the queue is empty.
Source: Continuous Coding Agent
jackzhaojin/continuous-agent (created Jan 24) flips the usual coding-agent posture: instead of waiting for a human prompt, a PM2-backed executive loop drains a prioritized goal queue around the clock. Each cycle is mechanical — check inbox, health-check, select highest-priority unblocked goal, spawn an isolated coding worker (Claude, Codex, or Kimi), validate with deterministic verifiers, update ledgers, continue — and it sleeps only when ondeck/ is empty. Goals live as markdown bundles with YAML frontmatter; complex ones auto-break into steps and turn-budgeted contracts. Application code never lands in the agent repo: workers write only into a sibling ai-sandbox/, enforced by constitution.
v2.2 adds Harness Mode — dedicated plan-then-build pipelines (generic, eds, study) that run standalone via CLI or as execution_pattern: harness goals the executive already knows how to drive. Vendor-agnostic runHarnessAgent() plus a mock-provider suite (npm run test:harness) exercise the orchestrator without burning API calls; live Claude runs stay gated. Append-only JSONL ledgers and Discord/Gmail identity channels keep the asynchronous human interface out of the critical path.
Why it matters for code review
Always-on factories need a queue and a gate, not a better peak-session prompt. Continuous Agent’s receipt is the loop contract: work selection and validation stay deterministic while model workers stay swappable, so overnight progress is a drained board with verifier receipts — not a chat that kept typing. If nothing ran while you slept, you skipped a cycle of prioritized builds that would have been waiting for morning review; bursts still win for novel intent, but merge-rate under load favors the shop that keeps picking the next goal without you.