Powering a life operating system.
Your Agentic Life OS
Behalf.bot is an agentic operating system powered by Claude Code that bottles productivity, wellness, and business wisdom and works 24/7 on your behalf. And it's the only agentic harness in existence that runs on a flat fee via your Claude Max subscription.
Free for Vibecode Lisboa members.
This is what Claude Cowork wishes it could be. Claude Cowork bolts agentic capabilities onto a desktop / mobile app, severely restricted. Behalfbot is anything-a-terminal-can-do, on Discord, plus a life OS opinion baked in. We run on Claude Code itself - Cowork is the product, Code is the harness underneath both of us.
You are overloaded - and the meter is running.
You are a solopreneur or busy operator running too many surfaces. Customer support, content, PRs, inbox, calendar, health - everything gets done late or not at all. You looked at AI agents. The good ones bill per token, so the harder you work them the bigger the invoice. You watch the meter run with no idea what next month's bill is.
The cheap ones are guardrailed toys that cannot actually do the work. You are stuck between paying $6k a month and not knowing what the cap is, or staying behind on everything.
There is a better way.
What if you ran your life on an operating system you actually own - and the agent that executes it ran on your existing Claude Max subscription? $100 a month, fixed, no surprises. Every time Anthropic ships a new feature, your stack gets stronger at no extra cost.
You write intent. The OS routes it. The agent ships drafts, PRs, briefings overnight while you sleep. You wake up to work already done, queued for your review. Same brain. Lower bill. Faster output.
Introducing Behalfbot.
Behalfbot is the execution layer of that OS. Open source, installed in an evening. It plugs into your Claude Max subscription and runs as a Discord-facing assistant: it triages your inbox, drafts customer support replies, opens PRs against your repos, monitors your health data, summarizes your week, schedules your meetings, surfaces what needs your attention.
Sean built and open-sourced this project out of frustration with Open Claw and its reliability. This is how he covers as much ground as he does with MicroAd.ventures and supporting all his students at Vibecode Lisboa. Free to self-install. $250 for a hands-off managed install. Free for Vibecode Lisboa members.
Source at scrollinondubs/behalfbot.
A non-exhaustive list of what it does.
As you read this, every system below is running in production against real data. None of it is theoretical.
Customer support and billing
Drafts replies overnight against the tone and policies you set. Surfaces escalations. Reconciles billing edge cases.
Health and habits
Tracks macros and workouts via meal photos and a hand-written journal. Reconciles with Apple Health, Oura, and whatever else you wear.
Infrastructure monitoring
Watches your cloud surfaces (Google Cloud, Vercel, n8n, and a dozen others) on a heartbeat. Alerts only when something needs you.
Daily morning briefing
A custom feed assembled from your calendar, inboxes, repos, and reading list. Everything you need to start the day, none of the noise.
Pacman skill ingestion
Feed it a URL or a GitHub project. It digests the content, evaluates fit, and proposes new capabilities for itself - extending what it can do, gated on your approval.
Code review and shipping
Reviews GitHub PRs against any repo you authorize. Ships fixes against your existing branches. Tests, commits, opens PRs for your review.
Content workshopping
Turns notes and voice memos into blog stub drafts in your voice. Drafts the social media promotion to go with them.
Multi-modal surfaces
Ingests from your reMarkable tablet, voice notes, and Loom recordings. Books indexed for semantic search. Briefings drafted. Complex app behavior modifications explained verbally. Natural language goes in, work product comes out.
Integrated with your Second Brain
Integrates with the top PKM's like Notion, Obsidian and SiYuan for reading and writing structured markdown data. Uses Memory MCP for short-term context persistence and your PKM system for long-term persistence.
Midnight Oil
Ships features while you sleep. A queued backlog of pre-approved work executes overnight; you wake up to PRs ready to merge.
See it in action.
Sean's May 19, 2026 talk unveiling Behalfbot at Vibecode Lisboa - walks through the architecture, the live install on his own systems, and a Q&A on what the chassis can do.
Two ways to get it running.
Same chassis underneath both. Pick the one that matches how much time you want to spend at the terminal.
Self-install
Clone the chassis from GitHub, populate your install-profile.md + chassis.config.yaml, run the bootstrap. Two ways to populate those files:
Managed install
Sean drives the install end-to-end over SSH. From cold host to first heartbeat fire in 60-120 min. No terminal time on your side beyond the initial homework.
- ✓Maintainer-driven SSH install
- ✓Beta Discord channel access (Q&A with maintainer + early installers)
- ✓Grandfathered pricing lock - if we raise the price later, your future installs stay at $250
- ✓$250 credit toward Vibecode Lisboa Build School tuition if you apply + are accepted
Early-bird beta cohort
Vibecode Lisboa members get a free managed install. Cohort tuition credit applies. Join the community.
Both paths produce the same install - same chassis underneath. Self-install gives you full control over the timeline + cost. Managed install gives you a maintainer who drives the bootstrap and stays available post-install for questions.
How Behalfbot compares.
Named-competitor matrix. Tap any row for the longer read.
+Model costFlat Claude Max sub ($100/mo)BYO-key, meteredBYO-key, meteredOperator brings modelsOAuth subscription (Claude / OpenAI / Gemini etc)Claude Max subscription
+OriginMonths of daily operator use, distilledSingle author, experimentalActive, plugin ecosystemAlpha, ~14 starsSingle author, Rust, ~7.1k starsBuilt by Anthropic
+SurfaceDiscord, email, health, PRs, calendar, content - whole lifeDiscord + TelegramTelegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, TeamsTerminal, browser, phoneTerminalDesktop app, mobile app
+CapabilityAnything you can do via terminalLimited tool surfacePlugin-extendedOrchestrates other harnessesCoding-focusedSeverely restricted agentic
+InstallSelf-install free, $250 managed (free for VCL members)Self-install onlySelf-install onlySelf-install onlySelf-install onlyDownload the app
+LicenseOpen sourceMITOpen sourceApache-2.0MITClosed
+PhilosophyOpinionated life OSMinimal runtimeMature general harnessMeta control-planeSingle-binary runtimeAgentic capabilities bolted onto app, restricted
Model cost+
Behalfbot rides your existing Claude Max subscription. The other harnesses bill metered API tokens or require you to bring your own provider keys. Claude Cowork also runs on Claude Max but the agentic surface inside the app is heavily restricted.
Origin+
Behalfbot emerged from months of Sean running it daily as his own assistant before it was packaged into a chassis. Most of the others were designed top-down and released for adoption. Lindy effect: it does what it does because real use selected for what works.
Surface+
Behalfbot is multi-surface - inbox triage, support drafts, PR review, calendar, health, content stubs, briefings. jcode is coding-focused, Hermes is platform-coverage-focused, Claude Cowork is constrained to its own desktop and mobile apps. Life OS scope is the differentiator.
Capability+
Anything you can do via terminal you can do via Behalfbot. Claude Cowork bolts an agentic loop onto the desktop / mobile app but the surface it can touch is severely restricted - no shell, no arbitrary integrations. The bot / harness category here is broad - we are not.
Install+
Behalfbot is the only one with a managed install option. Free self-install for everyone, $250 hands-off for non-VCL members, free for Vibecode Lisboa members. Claude Cowork is the easiest install of the bunch - it is a packaged app - but you trade install pain for capability ceiling.
License+
Open source under the O'Saasy License - free to install and run, with SaaS-rights reservation. See FAQ for details. Most competitors are MIT / Apache; Claude Cowork is closed-source Anthropic product.
Philosophy+
We are an opinionated life OS, not a generic harness. The agent enforces the operator's preferences end-to-end. The other systems are infrastructure you assemble into something. Claude Cowork bolts agentic capability onto a packaged Anthropic app, then locks down what the agent can reach.
Open source. Evolved from months of real daily use. The only harness of its caliber that runs legally under your Claude Max subscription for a fixed monthly cost.
Common questions.
Is the chassis really open-source?+
Yes. Source at github.com/scrollinondubs/behalfbot under the O'Saasy License (MIT-shaped with light attribution). Clone it, modify it, ship it. No keys required, no behalf.bot account needed - signup only matters if you want the wizard to generate your install bundle for you, or you want the managed-install path.
How does it run on my Claude Max subscription?+
Behalfbot uses your existing Claude Max OAuth session to talk to Anthropic. Same subscription you already pay $100/mo for. No metered API tokens, no per-call billing, no surprises on the invoice. The harder you work it, the more value you extract from a fixed bill. If Anthropic ships a new feature into Claude Max, your bot inherits it for free.
Is this just another wrapper on top of an LLM?+
No. Behalfbot is a long-running agentic harness with its own memory layer, scheduled-task system, ops dashboards, audit trails, and skill-extension pipeline. The LLM is one component. The infrastructure that lets the agent operate continuously and safely against your real surfaces is the rest of it.
What does it cost to run?+
Your Claude Max subscription ($100/mo) plus a small amount for the third-party APIs the agent uses (OpenAI for embeddings, Notion, etc.) - around $20/mo extra in Sean's setup. The chassis itself is free. The only line item from us is the optional one-time $250 managed install fee. No subscription. No per-seat charge.
Where does my data live?+
On infrastructure you control. The agent runs on your host (Linux server, Mac, or VPS); your second brain lives in your Notion / Obsidian / SiYuan; your secrets in your password manager. Nothing phones home to behalf.bot. You see every prompt, every tool call, every decision in your local logs. Full audit trail.
What can it actually decide on its own?+
Whatever you authorize, and nothing more. The default install ships with a tight allowlist - read everything, approve before writing, never spend money, never send external email without explicit confirmation. You expand the autonomy envelope as you build trust.
What's grandfathered pricing?+
Early managed-install customers (the first beta cohort) get the $250 rate locked in. If we raise the price later, your future installs on the same primary email stay at $250. Also: if you apply to and are accepted into Vibecode Lisboa's Build School, the $250 you paid for your install applies as a credit toward tuition.
Can I host it for someone else?+
Hosting a single Behalfbot install for one person or team you support directly is fine - that's how the managed-install path works, and that's what the license permits. What the O'Saasy license reserves for the original maintainer (Vibecode Lisboa) is the right to offer Behalfbot as a hosted, managed, or Software-as-a-Service product to third parties where the chassis itself is the value being sold. Those commercial-SaaS rights stay with us, with no time limit. If you're thinking of running a Behalfbot-as-a-Service business on top of the chassis, talk to us first - the SaaS opportunity here isn't open by default.
Run your life on your Claude Max bill.
Self-install (free, with or without the wizard) or managed install ($250, hands-off).
Free managed install for Vibecode Lisboa members.
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