# Ship While You Sleep
5 Claude Code Agents in 30 Days

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Advanced
- Pages: 252
- Best for: Anyone whose overnight agent run ends in a crime scene
- You finish with: Five agents on one queue that resume after a hard kill, never collide on a repo, and stop before the bill lands
- Series: The Overnight AI Team, book 1 of 3
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- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/ship-while-you-sleep

## What you get

You left five agents running overnight. One failed silently. One retried 47 times and burned $50. You shipped nothing. In 30 days you turn one babysat agent into a fleet of five that survives a hard kill, refuses a collision, and hands you finished work by morning.

Twenty-eight books on this shelf teach you to configure one agent inside one session. Not one of them survives process death. None ship a schema. None get you a second agent working safely.

The finished fleet package ships as a free companion repo: a runnable drill for all twelve chapters, and one command that kills a live agent and resumes it. No key, no account, no install.

## Chapters

1. Agent C Retried 47 Times and Burned $50: The three failures that kill every overnight run: silent failure, retry storms, and collisions.
2. The Half of the Harness Nobody Builds: Configuring one agent is the easy half. The operational half is what survives process death.
3. Your Agents Need a Database, Not More Markdown: Build agent.db with three contracts: control state, an append-only event ledger, derived knowledge with provenance.
4. Kill It Mid-Run and Watch It Come Back: A resumable session wrapper. Kill it at step 4 of 6, restart, and it finishes at step 5 without redoing a thing.
5. Receipts, Not Retries: An idempotent execution layer so the third retry never repeats the side effect.
6. Two Agents, One Repo: A claim registry with leases. Two agents work the same repo all night and never touch the same file.
7. The Scheduler: Five Agents, One Work Queue: Five agents pull from one shared queue, with heartbeats and a dead-letter queue you can inspect.
8. Where Did It Actually Break?: Trace the failure to the exact step instead of reading 400 lines of log at 8 a.m.
9. The Cost Governor: Stop the $50 Burn: A hard budget ceiling plus a routing split that buys more parallel agents from the same monthly spend.
10. Proof on Paper: Replay, Eval, and Numbers You Can Defend: A replay-driven regression suite seeded from your own production failures.
11. Where This Breaks at 3 A.M.: The honest chapter. What still fails, and the guardrail that catches it before you do.
12. Leave It Running: The 30-day operating plan: close the laptop, read the trace in the morning.