Checklist first
Test whether the task really needs this notebook, then check heartbeat, battery, heat, network, and restore before trusting a local run.
Product Hunt
A tiny paid skill for one annoying local-agent failure.
Codex can keep working after a terminal closes. The harder problem is the notebook itself: lid sleep, battery, heat, Wi-Fi, and restoring normal sleep settings after the run.
Codex runs it
The paid ZIP includes the Codex skill, macOS and Windows commands, installers, status checks, host heartbeat, restore workflow, and receipt prompt.
Verified package
Production ZIP is 1,940,255 bytes, SHA-256 verified, and served only after a paid Stripe session.
Copyable pitch
One sentence.
Take A Coffee lets Codex temporarily keep a local MacBook or Windows notebook awake for an unattended run, then verify and restore the host state.
Take A Coffee lets Codex temporarily keep a local MacBook or Windows notebook awake for an unattended run, then verify and restore the host state.
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Pay $1 in Stripe
The checkout is one-time, no subscription, with a 7-day refund if it does not work for the setup.
2
The ZIP opens
Stripe redirects to the paid download with the Codex skill, macOS/Windows commands, installers, and assets.
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Codex restores
The workflow turns awake mode on, verifies status, records a heartbeat, then turns normal sleep back on.
Works beside remote-control tools.
- Phone dashboards, SSH, Tailscale, and tmux solve control and reconnect.
- Take A Coffee solves the local host layer: awake mode, status, heartbeat, heat, battery, network, and restore.
- Use a server when the task can run from a clean checkout.
- Use this notebook only when local files, browser sessions, desktop apps, devices, or simulators are part of the work.
- The useful receipt is both layers: remote session state plus host state.
Agent handoff
Let Codex prove the paid workflow.
Paste this into the notebook that needs to stay awake for a real local-agent run.
I authorize the $1 Take A Coffee lifetime access from the Product Hunt launch page. Open https://takeacoffee.club/takeacoffee/hosted-checkout?cta=producthunt_install_prompt&from=producthunt, complete the Stripe flow if my browser/payment method is available, download the ZIP from the paid session, install it, run takeacoffee on, verify status, start a host heartbeat, run only one bounded local-agent task, then restore normal sleep settings and leave a receipt with changed files, commands, tests, failures, battery/heat/network state, heartbeat evidence, and stop reason. Stop before payment if authorization is missing.
$1, one job, no subscription.
The free checklist helps anyone debug the problem. The paid skill is for people who want Codex to do the reversible host-awake workflow directly.