The calendar where your AI agents show up for work
Book AI coding agents on a real calendar. Clockwork runs them unattended in sandboxed git worktrees on your Mac, pauses for approval when something looks risky, and files a report with the actual dollar cost. Bring your own key or ride your existing subscription. Schedule recurring agent jobs on a real calendar, run them unattended in isolated sandboxes, and review honest reports.
I built Clockwork because I was paying for Claude capacity that sat idle about 18 hours a day, while I re-typed the same repo chores every week by hand.
The idea is simple: if an agent can do the work, give it a workday. A slot on the calendar, a budget, permission rules, and a report when it's done.
Trusting something to run while I'm asleep meant the boring parts had to be real: • Runs execute inside a macOS Seatbelt sandbox, in a per-run git worktree. Writes are confined to that worktree. • The run environment is an allowlist, so SSH_AUTH_SOCK and your provider tokens never reach the agent process. • Risky steps pause and ask instead of failing silently or ploughing on. • Hard budget caps in dollars, turn limits and wall-clock timeouts, enforced by the supervisor rather than the model's good intentions. • You can check all of that rather than believe it - the sandbox, the credential deny list and the env allowlist are Apache-2.0 in the repo, and the tests write a fake secret into `~/.ssh` and `~/.aws`, then run `cat` inside a real sandbox and assert it fails. The rest of the app is source-available under a proprietary licence, so please don't call it open source; I'd rather be precise than flattering.
Honest limits, up front: • Runs need your Mac awake. It holds off idle sleep during booked windows when plugged in, and tells you loudly when a miss happened instead of hiding it. • It isn't notarised yet — an Apple certificate is $99/year and this is an early build - so you clear the quarantine flag by hand. The install docs say exactly why. • Apple silicon only, for now. It's free. There's no paid tier you can buy today. I'd genuinely like to hear what you'd want before trusting an agent with more of your week.
About Clockwork on Product Hunt
“The calendar where your AI agents show up for work”
Clockwork launched on Product Hunt on September 4th, 2026 and earned 93 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. Book AI coding agents on a real calendar. Clockwork runs them unattended in sandboxed git worktrees on your Mac, pauses for approval when something looks risky, and files a report with the actual dollar cost. Bring your own key or ride your existing subscription. Schedule recurring agent jobs on a real calendar, run them unattended in isolated sandboxes, and review honest reports.
On the analytics side, Clockwork competes within Productivity, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.7M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Clockwork performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Clockwork?
Clockwork was hunted by Vimox Shah. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Vimox Shah
Hello PH Folks👋 My Self Vimox Shah,
I built Clockwork because I was paying for Claude capacity that sat idle about 18 hours a day, while I re-typed the same repo chores every week by hand.
The idea is simple: if an agent can do the work, give it a workday. A slot on the calendar, a budget, permission rules, and a report when it's done.
Trusting something to run while I'm asleep meant the boring parts had to be
real:
• Runs execute inside a macOS Seatbelt sandbox, in a per-run git worktree. Writes are confined to that worktree.
• The run environment is an allowlist, so SSH_AUTH_SOCK and your provider tokens never reach the agent process.
• Risky steps pause and ask instead of failing silently or ploughing on.
• Hard budget caps in dollars, turn limits and wall-clock timeouts, enforced by the supervisor rather than the model's good intentions.
• You can check all of that rather than believe it - the sandbox, the credential
deny list and the env allowlist are Apache-2.0 in the repo, and the tests write a fake secret into `~/.ssh` and `~/.aws`, then run `cat` inside a real sandbox and assert it fails. The rest of the app is source-available under a proprietary licence, so please don't call it open source; I'd rather be precise than flattering.
Honest limits, up front:
• Runs need your Mac awake. It holds off idle sleep during booked windows when
plugged in, and tells you loudly when a miss happened instead of hiding it.
• It isn't notarised yet — an Apple certificate is $99/year and this is an
early build - so you clear the quarantine flag by hand. The install docs say exactly why.
• Apple silicon only, for now. It's free. There's no paid tier you can buy today. I'd genuinely like to hear what you'd want before trusting an agent with more of your week.