Give your assistant a machine to live on

Running an assistant on a persistent boxd Linux machine is presented as an alternative to building separate memory, credential, scheduling, and webhook systems in application code, since the machine provides durable files, cron jobs, stored logins, persistent workspaces, and a public HTTPS endpoint. Users can install agents such as Hermes through the `/boxd-setup-hermes` skill, connect it to messaging platforms, or use preinstalled coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. Account-level integrations supply credentials for services such as Slack, Linear, and GitHub across personal machines, while additional API keys can be managed through encrypted environment variables and secrets. Machines normally hibernate when idle to reduce cost, but assistants that must execute scheduled background work require hibernation to be disabled. The approach turns an assistant from a temporary chat session into an inspectable, persistent process that can act independently, though it also introduces ordinary operational responsibilities such as monitoring storage, processes, and logs.

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