The Always-On System
Channels, schedules, and the system that works while you sleep.
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Events push in, schedules fire, and the system works while you sleep. MCP connections, routines, channels, incident response. Five lessons, about 50 minutes total.
Lessons in this chapter
- Connect Your Data — One command plugs in a live system — and Skills + MCP becomes compound capability. (~10 min)
- Build Your Own MCP Server — Your knowledge becomes an API in thirty lines. (~15 min)
- Channels — Stop checking things — events come to you. (~10 min)
- Routines — The Monday-morning report that writes itself. (~10 min)
- Incident Response — From alert to diagnosis, hands-free. (~10 min)
If you take five things from this chapter
1. One command connects a system: claude mcp add. Add --scope project and the connection ships to your whole team via git.
2. Skills + MCP is the unlock. Rules without data can't see; data without rules can't decide. Aim every automation at the pair.
3. Automate the morning check first. Whatever dashboard or report you open every day is your first /schedule routine.
4. Cloud routines for repo-based always-on work; local jobs when it needs your machine. Know which side of that line each task sits on.
5. Let events come to you. A channel plus an approval message ("Categorized. Approve?") replaces checking — you review outcomes, not inboxes.