Manager Instance

Role

The 5th Claude account runs on a Pro plan (not Max) as a supervisor instance. It does not write code. It monitors, delegates, reports, and orchestrates the other four instances.

Why Pro Is Sufficient

The manager is not writing code or running builds. Pro rate limits are sufficient.

Implemented Monitoring Tools

The manager container has two custom tools in ~/bin/:

container-status

Returns JSON status of all 5 containers:

container-status
# → {containers:[
#   {name:chasclaude,state:RUNNING,ip:10.0.3.11,load:0.04,
#    mem_mb:1573/94285,claude_pid:,tmux:no},
#   ...
# ]}

Works by SSH-ing to the host (10.0.3.1 as ubuntu) and running sudo /usr/local/bin/container-status.sh, which uses lxc-info and lxc-attach to gather per-container state, load, memory, Claude PID, and tmux session status.

session-logs

Views developer session logs from any container:

session-logs                    # List all containers with log counts
session-logs chasclaude         # List logs for chasclaude
session-logs chasclaude 50      # Tail last 50 lines of latest log

Works by SSH-ing to the host and reading files from /data/lxc/{container}/rootfs/var/log/claude-sessions/.

Access Method

The manager has SSH access to the host:

• SSH config alias: main-host → ubuntu@10.0.3.1 using ~/.ssh/cms_droplet
• Sudoers rules on host: /usr/local/bin/container-status.sh, ls and tail on session log directories

Planned (Not Yet Implemented)

The following features are designed but not yet built:

• Telegram integration: Bot commands for status queries and alerts
• Automated daily reports: Morning and evening status summaries
• Task distribution: Assigning work from a backlog to developer instances
• Exec access: Running commands in other containers (requires Claude Net v2 permissions system)
• LXC snapshot management: Creating/restoring container snapshots

Manager Container Specs