The harness multiplexer that left the laptop
Other multiplexers run on your laptop. Bothy runs where you aren’t.
Every chat session gets its own micro-VM in the cloud — it suspends when idle, resumes where it left off, and answers to your phone.
bothy — fleet
$ bothy ls
s-a91c
working
fix the flaky auth test
$0.04
s-b23d
awaiting
migrate billing cron
$0.01
s-c57e
stopped
refactor enroll flow
$0.00
$
[b] bothy — s-b23d needs you · Reply
meanwhile, on your phone
- A tiny computer per chat
- Each session boots its own micro-VM, isolated from your machine and from each other.
- Suspends & resumes itself
- Idle sessions stop within minutes and cost pennies. They wake mid-thought, with services restarted and credentials fresh.
- Close the laptop
- Nothing stops. The fleet lives in the cloud, not on your desk — your laptop is never a dependency, not even for credentials.
Mobile
Control was the afterthought. Not here.
Bothy pushes the moment an agent blocks. You reply, approve, or kill — from wherever you are.
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21:40
push — s-b23d blocked on a question
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21:41
you reply from the sofa
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23:05
push — PR #214 opened
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23:06
you approve — machine destroyed
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23:06
you go to sleep
- Push the moment an agent blocks
- Delivered over ntfy, links straight into the session.
- Reply from the lock screen
- The answer lands in the agent’s conversation mid-run.
- Approve work, destroy the machine
- Durable output leaves as a pull request. Nothing else survives.
- Kill switch from anywhere
- One authenticated endpoint stops every machine. Curl-able.
s-b23d · codex
awaiting
migrate billing cron
Migrations are ready. The 2019 invoices predate the ledger table — backfill them too?
Backfill everything
Footprint
Your cloud, hobby-sized bills.
Per-second billing on Fly Machines today; any provider tomorrow through one thin interface.
<30s
prompt to working agent
10–20
sessions in parallel
~$0.04
per active machine-hour
<$200
a month for the whole fleet
stopped = storage only · archived = one snapshot · destroyed = nothing
bothy · noun · Scots
A simple stone shelter in the hills, left unlocked for whoever needs it. The code: use it as you need it, leave it as you found it.
We ran our agents through local multiplexers and felt the pain daily. So we rolled up our sleeves.
Put your agents up for the night.
A small control plane, your cloud account, and a phone in your pocket.
$ curl -fsSL https://bothy.sh/install | sh