Anthropic is quietly building something that looks a lot like the AI agent everyone keeps promising but nobody has shipped yet. Conway, an unreleased always-on agent built on Claude models, appears designed to operate persistently in the background, responding to real-world triggers without a human babysitting the chat window.
The project surfaced through a code leak earlier in 2026 involving over 500,000 lines of code. Anthropic hasn’t publicly acknowledged Conway’s existence, which makes the level of detail available all the more interesting.
What Conway actually does
The leaked code references a specialized “Conway instance” with its own user interface, webhook listeners for real-time events, GitHub integrations, and push notification capabilities. In English: it can watch for things happening across your tools and services, then take action automatically.
The core feature set includes always-on persistence, event triggers tied to external services like GitHub, scheduled task execution, and browser automation. Browser control means Conway could theoretically navigate websites, fill out forms, pull data, or interact with web applications the same way a human would.
