Harvey: open-source always-on sales agent running on a Claude Code subscription
Rare_Guide_9830 · reddit · 2026-09-15
The author open-sourced Harvey, an outbound sales agent that needs no API keys—it drives Claude Code headless from cron to prospect and outreach autonomously.
The key architectural lesson is the loop: wake every 15 minutes, plain code picks one action (replies first, then send, write, prospect, idle). The first version let the model choose and it drifted hard, re-arguing settled decisions and burning context—the model does the work, it doesn't pick the work. Other details: five sub-agents with scoped prompts (prospecting, writing, sending, replies, analytics); skills as markdown files (frameworks, objection handling, qualification rules) so behavior changes without code; self-throttling with a daily cap and quiet hours; SQLite state plus an audit log of every decision.
Still rough—reply classification trips on out-of-office, booking isn't built. Running on the author's own outreach; numbers to follow.
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