Temper

What it is

Temper is a public starting point for building a personal agent that lives in the terminal and does real work for weeks. Memory, cron-style schedules, custom tools through MCP, a Docker sandbox and a line to your phone are already built; you tell Claude Code what job the agent should do and it configures the rest. Inside its container the agent has a full shell and the web with no permission prompts, because the container is the boundary.

The problem

Building a trustworthy long-running agent from scratch means re-solving memory, scheduling and sandboxing every time.

How it works

1. A TypeScript CLI with an Ink terminal UI; the runtime is finished and CLAUDE.md tells Claude Code to interview the owner about the job before changing anything.
2. A Docker sandbox is the safety boundary instead of per-action permission prompts.
3. Custom tools use the Model Context Protocol SDK and schedules use cron-parser.
4. QUICKSTART and BUILD_GUIDE docs define the order of operations and the quality bar.

Stack

Disciplines

For your business

A sandboxed agent chassis that can be configured into a client-specific inbox triager, scheduler or back-office worker.