Running AI Agents off Your Computer

How are you all running always on AI agent automations off your main computer?

I've built up a pile of local automations on my MacBook Pro

Trello driven pipelines
email handling
SEO jobs
content generation (articles and social posts)

Around 20 of them spawn AI agents headlessly through the Claude Code and Codex CLIs (deliberately no API keys, everything rides my subscriptions).

A handful are browser/computer-use jobs with persistent logged-in sessions: marketplace posting, uploads to sites, dashboard scraping behind 2FA.

The problem: my daily driver laptop is now running always on daemons, multiple persistent Chrome instances, and nightly Whisper/ffmpeg jobs. Fans spinning and Yeah, I only planned on adding more automations, not less.

My plan is to move the logged-in browser stuff to an idle Mac mini at home (residential IP + Tailscale) and push the repo/API automations to Claude routines / Codex cloud.

I'd trial Cursor and/or Devin for some automations

Before I commit, curious what's actually working for people:

1. What are you using to run always on agent automations off your primary machine?

2. Anyone running logged-in browser automations from a cloud box without bans or checkpoints what's your stack?

3. Real world experience with Devin / Cursor cloud agents / Browserbase / Anchor for recurring non-coding automations?

4. Anyone running the Mac mini as an agent server?

Appreciate any help here! 🙏

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Running AI Agents off Your Computer