Headless Coding Agents: Practical Examples of Background Jobs That Work While You Sleep

The first time someone usually encounters a coding agent like Claude Code is through the blinking dialogue box of a terminal. You shoot off a question, the agent goes off and presumably reads the codebase, and like communion with the spirits, you go back and forth until you finish the task. But some of the most useful agent work we run never starts with prompting. This post walks through how the Coder team uses headless tasks to tackle the graveyard shift.