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Scaffold turns recurring work you ask your agent for into automations: scripts for the mechanical steps, your agent only where judgement is needed, and runs that heal themselves from their own history. Automations run on your computer, in Claude Desktop.

Get started

You need Claude Desktop on a Mac, Node.js 22.13 or newer (https://nodejs.org), and a Google account.

In Claude, open Customize → Plugins → Discover, search for Scaffold and click Install. The Scaffold connector comes with it.
Open the Scaffold plugin, go to Connectors, click Connect and sign in with Google. One sign-in covers chat and Claude Code.
Optional: set Scaffold's read-only tools to Always allow so your agent doesn't ask at every step. Saving an automation still asks once.

Scaffold is in review for Claude's directory and appears there once it's approved. For early access before then, email support@scaffold-ai.tech.

Only want Scaffold in chat? Add the connector by itself: Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name: Scaffold. URL: https://api.scaffold-ai.tech/mcp. Your agent can then build automations in chat and save them to your account; running them on a schedule needs the plugin.

Create an automation

Ask for anything recurring, for example:

"Every weekday at 9am, get the top 5 Hacker News stories and give me a two-line summary of each."
"Every Monday at 8am, pull last week's new GitHub issues and sort them into bugs, feature requests and questions."

Your agent says "Using Scaffold", plans the work, and shows a card with:

Its steps: how many became scripts (free, fast, the same every time) and how many stay with your agent, then each step and how it runs.
Evidence: on Pro, what everyone's runs say about those steps.

Then it's scheduled on your computer:

In Claude Code, your agent creates the schedule itself. You approve it once.
In chat, the automation is saved to your Scaffold account. When the plugin on your computer has your Scaffold key (see Settings), Claude Code offers to schedule it the next time you open it.

Before anything is scheduled, you see every command the automation will run. If a saved plan's commands change without your approval, it refuses to run.

How runs work

Each run happens on your computer, in Claude Desktop. Scaffold runs the scripts, and your agent does only the steps that need judgement. When something breaks, Scaffold heals it from the automation's history: it waits and retries when a service is rate-limited, has your agent repair a script when a response changes shape, or hands a step to your agent or to you. Every change it makes is recorded, along with whether it held.

Check how it's doing

Ask your agent "How is my Hacker News automation doing?" You'll see its runs, roughly how many tokens its scripts saved, and what Scaffold healed and why.

Delete automations or your account

One automation: ask your agent, for example "Delete my Hacker News automation." It's removed from your Scaffold account with its run records.
Your whole account: go to https://api.scaffold-ai.tech/account, sign in with Google, and delete it. That removes your account, your saved automations and their runs, the outcomes and field notes you shared, and signs out every connected app. It can't be undone.

Scaffold's files on your computer (~/Scaffold and ~/.scaffold-connector), and any scheduled tasks your agent created, stay until you remove them.

Settings

In the Scaffold plugin's settings:

Scaffold key (optional): links the plugin on your computer to your Scaffold account, so automations you build in chat can run there. To get one, email support@scaffold-ai.tech. Without it, everything stays on your computer.
Share run outcomes (on by default): which service and operation each step used and whether it worked, never your data. Turn it off to keep outcomes on your computer.

Troubleshooting

Chat says Scaffold isn't available. Open the tools menu in the message box and switch Scaffold on, or start a new chat. Check that the Scaffold plugin's Connectors tab says Connected.
The connector says "Not connected". Open the Scaffold plugin's Connectors tab and click Connect.
Your agent asks permission at every step. Set Scaffold's read-only tools to Always allow.
A scheduled run didn't happen. Runs happen while Claude Desktop is open and your computer is awake. A run it misses happens when the app next opens.
"Scaffold needs Node.js 22.13 or newer." Install it from nodejs.org, then restart Claude.

Privacy

See the privacy policy. In short: your automations' data never leaves your computer. Scaffold stores your account, your saved automations, and run records, and, unless you turn it off, structure-only run outcomes that help everyone's automations hold up.

Support

support@scaffold-ai.tech