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All blog posts, tools, and guides about Automation from Developers Digest.
18 resources - 13 posts, 3 tools, 2 guides
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Codex Record & Replay: Turn Screen Recordings Into Reusable Automation Skills
A companion guide to the Codex Record & Replay video: OpenAI Codex can now record a recurring computer task and replay it as a reusable automation skill. Here is what the feature is and where it fits.
6 min read
Loop Engineering in 9 Minutes: Stop Prompting, Start Building Loops
A companion guide to the Loop Engineering video: the shift from repeatedly prompting an LLM to building long-running loops, goals, and automations. Here is the core idea and where to go deeper.
6 min read
Codex-Maxxing: How to Run Long-Running Codex Workflows Without Losing the Plot
Codex-Maxxing should mean bounded autonomy: AGENTS.md, small worktrees, explicit stop conditions, subagents only when work is separable, and review checkpoints that keep humans in control.
8 min read
The Definitive Guide to Loop Engineering in Claude Code and Codex
Goal, loop, routine. Three verbs, two tools, one hard part. A complete field guide to running agentic loops in Claude Code and Codex, the real commands, the patterns people actually run, and the two failure modes that burn money.
16 min read
Claude Code Routines vs Managed Agents Schedules: Where Recurring Agent Work Should Live
Claude Code Routines and Managed Agents scheduled deployments both run Claude on a schedule - here is how the triggers, pricing, and limits differ, and which one fits your recurring agent work.
9 min read
Codex Exec in CI: The Practical Guide to Headless OpenAI Agents
codex exec is OpenAI's non-interactive mode for running Codex agents from scripts, CI pipelines, and GitHub Actions - here is how to set it up safely with real flags and working YAML.
9 min read
Codex Automations: Where Scheduled AI Agents Actually Help
Codex automations are useful when recurring engineering work has clear inputs, reviewable outputs, and safe boundaries. Here is the practical playbook.
9 min read
Codex Is Becoming a General-Purpose AI Agent, Not Just a Coding Tool
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding assistant into a broader agent workspace for files, apps, browser QA, images, automations, and repeatable knowledge work.
8 min read
Codex Loops: What Boris Cherny Gets Right About Managing Agent Work
Boris Cherny's loop-heavy Claude Code workflow points at the next Codex content lane: recurring agents that babysit PRs, CI, deploys, and feedback streams.
8 min read
Claude Code Hooks Explained
Hooks give you deterministic control over Claude Code. Auto-format on save, block dangerous commands, run tests before commits, fire desktop notifications. Here's how to set them up.
12 min read
Claude Code Loops: Recurring Prompts That Actually Run
Claude Code now has a native Loop feature for scheduling recurring prompts - from one-minute intervals to three-day windows. Fix builds on repeat, summarize Slack channels, email yourself Hacker News digests. All from the CLI.
6 min read
Claude Code: Remote Control, Auto Memory, Plugins & More
Anthropic dropped a batch of updates across Claude Code and Cowork - remote control from your phone, scheduled tasks, plugin repos, auto memory, and stats showing 4% of GitHub public commits now come from Claude Code.
5 min read
The Ralph Loop: Running Claude Code For Hours Autonomously
Claude Opus 4.5 ran autonomously for 4 hours 49 minutes using stop hooks and the Ralph Loop pattern. Walk away, come back to completed work. Here's how it works.
10 min read
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Modern browser automation from Microsoft. Auto-wait, role-based selectors, cross-browser, fast in CI.
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Self-healing browser automation harness that lets LLMs complete any browser task. 5,000+ stars in under a week.
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Self-hostedWorkflow automation platform with native AI agent building. Visual editor plus JavaScript/Python code nodes, 500+ integrations, self-hostable under a fair-code license.
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