JKHeadley/instar

Persistent Claude Code agents with scheduling, sessions, memory, and Telegram.

Stars: 79
Forks: 18
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 55
Avg merge: 4h 54m
Merged PRs (30d): 79

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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55 open issues indexed

Improve error message when Claude Code CLI is not installed Open

enhancement

JKHeadley/instar#13 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add troubleshooting section to docs for common setup issues Open

documentation

JKHeadley/instar#14 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add job template: daily git summary reporter Open

enhancement

JKHeadley/instar#15 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Add example: multi-job agent with health checks Open

enhancement

JKHeadley/instar#16 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Start Here: Quickstart + Common Pitfalls Open

documentation

JKHeadley/instar#17 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Roadmap: Next 30 Days Open

enhancement

JKHeadley/instar#18 · 3 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Security Model: How to Run Safely Open

documentation

JKHeadley/instar#19 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
[Feature] Support video, animation, and video note media from Telegram Open

enhancement

JKHeadley/instar#20 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
iMessage: typing indicators don't work, text ack is a workaround Open

JKHeadley/instar#46 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
PresenceProxy: suppress observer messages after agent reply, configurable tier delays Open

JKHeadley/instar#48 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Native AgentMail webhook support Open

JKHeadley/instar#92 · 0 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
POST /feedback returns 500 Internal Server Error Open

JKHeadley/instar#93 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Self-heal didn't fire after shadow-install reinstall — agent ran 4h with 4 SQLite-backed degradations Open

JKHeadley/instar#129 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Remediator dispatcher — act on health-probe remediation strings Open

JKHeadley/instar#338 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Conversation-aware quiet window for restarts Open

JKHeadley/instar#339 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Threadline/SessionManager: pass spawn prompt via temp file to remove command-length limit + preserve full context Open

JKHeadley/instar#562 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Evaluate accept-boundary for the relay-funnel inbound path (ThreadlineEndpoints /threadline/messages/receive) Open

JKHeadley/instar#580 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Time Awareness: Step 2 (per-turn injection hooks) + Component 4 (signal-only reporting nudge) Open

JKHeadley/instar#682 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
pre-push gate should validate the ASSEMBLED upgrade guide, not just the lone fragment Open

JKHeadley/instar#726 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Standby server crash-loops on boot when a {secret:true} placeholder is unresolved (1.3.260 strict validation regression vs 1.3.254) Open

bug robustness

JKHeadley/instar#773 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
flaky e2e: session-management 'restores a worktree build context on respawn' — waitFor(20s) timeout under host load Open

JKHeadley/instar#879 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Scheduler robustness: silent emergency disable left all jobs dead for 5.5h + boot-time-only isAwake gate Open

JKHeadley/instar#882 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Audit compaction-resume inject under new Truthful Provenance standard Open

JKHeadley/instar#894 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
CoherenceJournal writer lock: restart cascade + pid reuse defeats stale reclaim — writer silently locked out until next boot (live 2026-06-06) Open

JKHeadley/instar#925 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Working-set reflex unusable on quiet topics: ownership gate refuses owner:null + pinned-to-self — the exact post-move-no-traffic state it exists for (live 2026-06-06) Open

JKHeadley/instar#926 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Reflex pin fallback (#926) incomplete: the placement pin is ROUTER-local — the pinned-TO machine still answers not-owner (live 2026-06-06, v1.3.369) Open

JKHeadley/instar#930 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
A2A durable delivery: Threadline messages die out silently — need outbox/ACK/redelivery/escalation (operator directive) Open

JKHeadley/instar#939 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
ReapGuard: open-commitment KEEP has no max-age ceiling → stale sessions accumulate indefinitely (resource leak) Open

JKHeadley/instar#953 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
spec-converge Decision-Completeness gate: heading regex misses numbered 'Open questions' headings Open

JKHeadley/instar#1060 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
spec-converge: operator externals-waiver vs PR #1059 mandatory delta-gated externals — no honest interaction path Open

JKHeadley/instar#1063 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Cartographer follow-ups from #1069: scaffold writer-safety rework, index storage format (sharding/SQLite), streaming ls-tree Open

JKHeadley/instar#1073 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
SleepWakeDetector fires on ~10s timer gaps every few minutes — each 'wake' redials Slack and restarts the tunnel Open

JKHeadley/instar#1077 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Full-suite load flakes: 4 files failed across 2 back-to-back local runs (different files each run, all pass in isolation) Open

JKHeadley/instar#1081 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
auto-updater: records lastAppliedVersion without verifying files landed on disk → silent deploy wedge Open

JKHeadley/instar#1221 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
dashboard mandates: line-248 'open that machine's dashboard' punt violates one-dashboard on the agent-asks-approval path Open

JKHeadley/instar#1222 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
pre-push-gate: side-effects artifact check hard-fails ALL pushes in the post-release-cut window (docs-only included) Open

JKHeadley/instar#1506 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
URGENT: single-instance guard fails closed forever on stale lock after hostname flap — multi-hour silent outage Open

JKHeadley/instar#1553 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Ingress liveness: an agent can stop polling Telegram indefinitely with nothing noticing Open

JKHeadley/instar#1788 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 1 assignee · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Project rounds never close: round status is written only by the runner's own execution path Open

JKHeadley/instar#1790 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Guard posture cannot see a disabled job: 90 guard rows, 42 jobs, zero overlap Open

JKHeadley/instar#1791 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Autonomous heartbeat bounds the wrong unit: 21 liveness lines in 24h, one 26 minutes after a real post Open

JKHeadley/instar#1792 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Tone-gated replies are told to the user as "discarded" but are retained on disk with no way to read them Open

JKHeadley/instar#1793 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Two intent classifiers error ~100% of the time: a 4000ms per-attempt budget below the provider's floor Open

JKHeadley/instar#1794 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Documented auth pattern breaks for agents with a vault-externalized authToken: CLAUDE.md lacks the isinstance guard the job templates have Open

JKHeadley/instar#1796 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Correction/Preference learning is structurally inert: dedupe key hashes generated prose, so occurrenceCount never exceeds 1 and the recurrence gate can never fire Open

JKHeadley/instar#1800 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Attention store is 80% duplicate rows: flood guards bound topic creation, not item creation, so open-item counts and category medians are uninterpretable Open

JKHeadley/instar#1801 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
Three shipped jobs disagree about .instar/MEMORY.md: two append to a file a third overwrites daily Open

JKHeadley/instar#1827 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
test(e2e): two pre-existing nondeterministic races make unrelated PRs look red Open

JKHeadley/instar#1838 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
config: egressAcknowledged advertises a consent gate it no longer enforces Open

JKHeadley/instar#1839 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026
coherence: topic-project-alignment can never pass — stale projectDir after rename, plus a contradiction with the worktree convention Open

JKHeadley/instar#1840 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 18, 2026

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