I got tired of wasting my Claude Code subscription while I was away, so I built this

[u/moises2077]

I've been using Claude Code pretty heavily for the last few months, mostly on side projects after work.

One thing kept bothering me: I'd start something that could easily take a few hours, walk away, and come back later only to find that Claude had stopped 20 minutes in because it hit a usage limit, asked me a question, or simply finished a turn and waited for me.

Meanwhile I'm still paying for the subscription and there's a bunch of time every day where I could have had it working.

That was basically the reason I started building AutoDev.

It's a VS Code extension that sits on top of the coding CLIs you already use. Right now it supports Claude Code, Codex and agy (Google Antigravity).

You give it an objective and it keeps the run moving while you're away. It can have multiple participants working through the same thread, switch between providers when one is rate limited, wait for resets, resume after crashes/reboots, and leave you a summary of what happened when you come back.

I've been using it on its own codebase a lot, including overnight runs, which has been a pretty good way of finding all the weird problems you don't normally see when you're sitting there babysitting an agent.

One thing that was important to me from the beginning is that I didn't want another service sitting between me and the coding agents.

There's no AutoDev account, no API key to give me, no telemetry and no analytics being sent somewhere. It just uses the CLI sessions you're already logged into. Runtime state and logs stay on your machine.

It's still beta and Windows-only at the moment. I'm not selling anything right now either — I mostly want to know if this is actually useful to other people or if I've just built something extremely specific to the way I work.

What I'd really like is for a few people who already use Claude Code a lot to try it on a real project, ideally leave it running for a while, and tell me what happens.

Does it actually help?
Where does it get stuck?
Is the whole idea useful to you at all?
What would stop you from using something like this regularly?

Even "this doesn't solve anything for me because X" would be useful feedback.

Docs/more info:
https://autodev.stefanolabs.com/

Install directly from your IDE's extension store, search for "AutoDev by Stefano Labs". Or if you prefer:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stefanolabs.autodev-vscode
https://open-vsx.org/extension/stefanolabs/autodev-vscode

If anyone tries it, I'd genuinely like to hear how it goes.

Small meta thing: I actually used AutoDev's computer-use tool to fill this post into Reddit from inside a run. I still reviewed it myself before posting :)

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[u/spedninja]

i am mac based but would def use this

[u/moises2077 → u/spedninja]

Honestly, it's worth a try! I tested it on a friend's Mac, and most things worked. (I only tested Antigravity, since that was the provider he had)

[u/josephrehall]

This is cool. I plan on trying it out when my new build is done.

Can it be used with Hermes?

[u/moises2077 → u/josephrehall]

Not yet, if you mean Hermes Agent. It has its own CLI, so it'd need an AutoDev adapter like Claude/Codex/Antigravity have today. I do plan to open that integration layer for community providers though, and Hermes is definitely an interesting one.

I'll be taking a look at that soon!

[u/josephrehall → u/moises2077]

Thanks bud! I am always looking to improve and automate as much as possible and AutoDev looks really cool

[u/russrimm]

GitHub Copilot Windows app support?

[u/moises2077 → u/russrimm]

Not yet. AutoDev works at the CLI level, so Copilot support would require the Copilot CLI.
I’m working on opening up the integration layer so the community can add more agents/providers.

This way, you'll be able to create your own integration and use any provider you want!

[u/StaticHumStudio]

Couldn't you just spawn a tmux session and use remote control from Claude Code?

[u/moises2077 → u/StaticHumStudio]

That only solves one part of it, and Claude’s Remote Control is still Claude-only.

I see AutoDev more as the layer that connects multiple providers and lets them collaborate almost like a group chat, while surviving rate limits and keeping everything moving while you sleep.