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My Agent Stack

Liam Darmody
Liam Darmody
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I maintain a broader post about the tools I use to run my life and business. This is the AI slice: what sits behind my agent team.

The test I apply to anything in this list: if my laptop is closed, can the team keep working? That's the line between an agent stack and a list of AI apps.

Core

The three things everything else plugs into.

  • Claude Max (£90/mo). The brain. Every agent I run calls Claude for reasoning. Essential.
  • Rundock (free). Where the agents live. Each one is a file with instructions, a toolset, and a memory. I started with Claude Code on its own. Rundock is what turned a single agent into a team. Essential.
  • Obsidian (free). Shared workspace between me and the team. Notes, playbooks, outputs, context, all in one place. Essential.

Running 24/7

Keeps the team working when my laptop is closed. VPS hosts it, Happy Coder reaches it, Obsidian Sync and GitHub keep it in state.

  • Hostinger VPS, KVM 2 ($129.47/year, £96.69 actual charge, ~£8/mo). Hosts Claude Code 24/7. Power-user.
  • Happy Coder (free, open source). Phone access to the agent team when I'm away from the desk. Power-user.
  • Obsidian Sync ($48/year, ~£3/mo). Keeps my Mac and the VPS in lockstep so the team sees the same state either way. Power-user.
  • GitHub (free for current needs). Three jobs in my stack: version control with rollback for agent files, the sync pipe for everything Obsidian Sync Headless doesn't handle on my VPS, and the polling backbone for my Agent Tasks board in Todoist. Started as a workaround, became infrastructure. Essential for my setup.

Workflow

Data in, data out.

  • Granola Business ($14/user/month, ~£10/mo). Meeting capture. My agents read the transcripts and turn them into tasks, notes, and people entries. Optional.
  • Wispr Flow (free tier, may change). Voice-to-text for my agents. Faster than typing, especially on mobile through Happy Coder. Turned my agent team from something I type at into something I talk to. Optional but high-value.
  • Todoist Pro ($72/year, ~£4/mo). Task source of truth. One inbox for me and the agents. Optional.
  • Notion Plus ($120/year, ~£7/mo). Content calendar. Where my content-lead agent plans and tracks. Optional.

Security

  • 1Password (~£3/mo personal plan). API keys, auth, the lot. Every agent needs a key somewhere; don't keep them in plaintext. Essential.

All in, roughly £125/mo to run a team of AI agents 24/7.

Stripped to essentials, it'd be under £25/mo. The rest earns its place.

This is what I use today, not what you must use tomorrow. The stack will change. The test won't: if the laptop is closed, is the team still working?

For how I wired the VPS up in the first place, see My 24/7 Setup.

Liam Darmody

Liam Darmody

I’m a leadership coach and product advisor. I work with senior product and engineering leaders during periods of transition and growth, helping them regain clarity, align teams, and perform sustainably under pressure.