Anthropic is building an always-on Conway agent

Conway, discovered in claude.ai's code, is a background AI agent that runs without user interaction and accepts requests via webhooks from external services. The Claude Code source leak also revealed KAIROS and ULTRAPLAN.

Author: Michael Kokin ·

A new tool called Conway was found in the claude.ai code. It's not a chat — it's a separate environment where an AI agent runs in the background. External services (email, CRM, whatever) can send it a request via webhook and it'll wake up. You can install extensions. Works with the browser and Claude Code.

Really cool — you close your laptop and the agent keeps working (right now your machine needs to be at least in power nap mode).

This week the Claude Code source code leaked — 512,000 lines. Inside they found KAIROS (an agent that updates project context in the background) and ULTRAPLAN (cloud-based task planning). And two days ago Anthropic's Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith told Bloomberg that Cowork will outgrow Claude Code, because engineers are 2–5% of a company, while Cowork is for everyone else. Conway, judging by the code, builds on that idea.

Not sure if it's a coincidence, but yesterday Dispatch and Cowork were running scheduled tasks with my laptop off. Publishing, content runs, weekly planning (everything comes to me in Telegram and in the dispatch section of the Claude app). Very convenient.

Sources: Testing Catalog, Bloomberg