Anthropic is preparing to shut off internal access to "Claude Conway," an experimental always-on background agent, on Friday, July 24 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, according to reports circulating this week. The shutdown notice reportedly instructs testers to preserve their work by prompting the agent directly: "export my data."
July 24, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Anthropic
"Claude Conway" Goes Dark: Anthropic Pulls Its Always-On Agent
Internal access to the experimental, always-running Claude agent is being cut off Friday. Testers are told to save their work with one prompt — "export my data." Anthropic has said nothing official: an end, or a stepping stone?
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Lines of leaked TypeScript that first exposed the project (late March 2026)
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Always-on: runs in a dedicated cloud container, triggered by events — not prompts
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Official announcements — pricing, availability & benchmarks all unconfirmed
REACTIVE CHATBOT → AMBIENT AGENT
What sets an always-on agent apart: it doesn't wait to be asked.
Standard Assistant
You prompt → it responds → it waits
→
Conway (Always-On)
External event fires → agent acts → notifies you
LEAKED FEATURE SET
Webhooks Start on outside signals
GitHub subs Continuous repo monitoring
Browser control Acts across the web
Push notifications Surfaces what matters
Sidebar Search · Chat · System
CNW .zip tabs Proprietary UI extensions
Developer Upside
Monitors repos & runs tasks unsupervised
Deep integration into dev workflows
Builds on Model Context Protocol tooling
Open Caveats
Signal-to-noise: notification overload
Token cost of continuous operation
Privacy & permission / rollback risk
No large-scale user testing yet
Quiet end — or a stepping stone to a public agent?
With rivals like GitHub Copilot Workspace and Cognition's Devin racing on persistent, agentic tooling, Anthropic's next move on always-on agents is worth watching — whatever happens to Conway itself.
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