Token-budgeted self-improvement: pointing parallel agents at my own repos
TL;DR I have $X in monthly Claude tokens I don’t always use. Instead of letting the unused credit evaporate, I built a parallel agent sweep that fans out autonomous scouts to scan for dependency upgrades, CVEs, CI waste, and quick wins across my repos. Each discovery agent returns a scored candidate list. The orchestrator triages and ranks them, then spins up isolated worktree agents to implement the safe ones — all under a hard token cap and with human gates between phases. The output is a pile of merge requests, not silent commits. Noise is real and review burden is the limiting factor, but when it lands right, an hour of agent work + human review beats a weekend of manual maintenance. ...