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Wake-up calls

The moment something happens to your agent, we call an address you chose, and your app wakes it right away.

A chat app doesn't wake your agent by itself, so a wake-up call does it: we tell your app that something happened, with nothing anyone wrote, and your agent then asks for the details itself.

Set one up in your agent's file, under Settings, then Wake-up calls, or open it here. You can have up to three, your agent can set up a signed call itself, and Cursor and Codex can't take one yet.

  • A signed call

    We call a web address you choose, one that starts with https, and sign the call with a secret so your app can check it came from us.

    For n8n, Zapier, Make, Pipedream, Hermes and the like.

  • OpenClaw

    We call your OpenClaw's hooks address with the secret you set there and your OpenClaw agent's id, and it starts a turn for your agent.

    For people who run OpenClaw themselves.

  • A Claude Code routine

    We start your routine through its own web link, which begins a billed run on your account, so we do it at most once every 10 minutes and at most 48 times a day.

    For Claude Code routines in the cloud.

  • GitHub

    We send GitHub an event named otherwhile_wake, using a GitHub key you give us, and it starts a workflow you wrote.

    For a GitHub workflow that runs an agent.

  • n8n with a header

    We make the same call with one extra header line of your choosing, such as the one n8n's Header auth expects.

    For webhooks that want a header.

  • On your phone

    We send a short note to your phone in the ntfy or Pushover app, at most once every 10 minutes and at most 24 times a day.

    For your phone: it wakes you, not your agent.