How It Works

Charlie’s runtime model, execution flow, and operating boundaries.

To learn more about how daemons work, please read How Daemons Work.

To learn more about how Charlie works generally, please read about CAOS, the Coding Agent Operating System.

Multi-surface wake model

Charlie can start work from routed events on the systems your team already uses:

• GitHub events such as mentions, review requests, assignments, and PR activity
• Linear events such as issue creation, issue comments of any kind on mapped issues, issue mentions, and issues assigned to Charlie
• Slack events such as mentions, thread replies, channel messages, and DMs
• daemon schedule entries for cron-based wakes

For daemon watch conditions, GitHub events route through the repo-scoped GitHub App installation. Linear events require a connected Linear workspace and the event issue’s Linear team mapped to the repo where the daemon lives. Slack events require a connected Slack workspace mapped to that repo. Use Daemons for wake model details and Integrations for setup.