Anthropic's Always-On 'Conway' Agent: Webhooks, GitHub Triggers, and the Autonomous Background Assistant That Leaked From Their Codebase
Something interesting leaked from Anthropic’s codebase earlier this year — and June 20’s coverage has brought it back into focus with new detail. It’s called Conway, and if what’s been discovered holds up, it may be the closest anyone has come to building an AI agent that genuinely never sleeps. What Is Conway? Conway is an unreleased, fully autonomous AI agent built on Claude models. It surfaced in March 2026 when an accidental npm package release exposed over 512,000 lines of code from Anthropic’s internal Claude Code project. Hidden inside: detailed implementation of an “always-on” agent architecture that operates continuously in the background — no human in the loop, no open chat window required. ...